This was a principle of the most powerful energy: it fanned the flame of genius, invigorated every exertion; and the poets who basked in the rays of imperial favour, and the animating patronage of Mecaenas, experienced a poetic enthusiasm which approached to real inspiration.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The Greeks have done him the honour, without contradiction, to pronounce him the greatest man of their nation; and to be the first of Greece, is easily to be the first of the world.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Ipalíhug kug kúhà ánà bisag wà kuy iháwun, Please do me the favor of getting it, even though I have no pig to roast (from the notion that people who are asked to do a big job without pay are generally given a good meal).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Holland, for whose destruction Louis began the war, lost not a foot of ground in Europe; and beyond the seas only her colonies on the west
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Charley and I had reason to call it the most friendly of villages, I am sure, for in a week's time the people were so glad to see us go by, though ever so frequently in the course of a day, that there were faces of greeting in every cottage.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But an aristocracy chiefly approaches to a secret change by its being destroyed by degrees, as we [1307b] have already said of all governments in general; and this happens from the cause of the alteration being trifling; for whenever anything which in the least regards the state is treated with contempt, after that something else, and this of a little more consequence, will be more easily altered, until the whole fabric of government is entirely subverted, which happened in the government of Thurium; for the law being that they should continue soldiers for five years, some young men of a martial disposition, who were in great esteem amongst their officers, despising those who had the management of public affairs, and imagining they could easily accomplish their intention, first endeavoured to abolish this law, with a view of having it lawful to continue the same person perpetually in the military, perceiving that the people would readily appoint them.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

In this respect the form of government is either republican or despotic.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Before we can affirm whether a democratic form of government is economical or not, we must establish a suitable standard of comparison.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

A year ago he had finished his book, the fruit of six years’ labor, “Sketch of a Survey of the Principles and Forms of Government in Europe and Russia.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I was great at cards, and was fond of gambling in every shape.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Works which claim to be great in literature may fail of greatness in either half of that test.
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee

If we compare this gas with anthracite coal, we find that 1,000 cubic feet of gas is equal to 58.4 lb. of this coal, and 2,000 lb. of coal is equal to 34,246 cubic feet of natural gas.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various

Among the Indians no visible form of government is established; they allow of no such distinction as magistrate and subject, every one appearing to enjoy an independence that cannot be controlled.
— from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 by Jonathan Carver

Thou flower of rapture and thou fruit of grief; Invisible enchantress of the heart; Mistress of charms that bring relief To sorrow, and to joy impart A heavenly tone that keeps it undefined,— Thou art the child Of Amor, and by right divine A throne of love is thine, Thou flower-folded, golden-girdled, star-crowned Queen, Whose bridal beauty mortal eyes have never seen!
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

Whenever a form of government is established which deserves the name, these insurrections must cease.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

Unlike Germany, however, Italy is composed of peoples whose nature are of a more independent character, and whose form of government is entirely different.
— from How the Nations Waged War A companion volume to "How the War Began" by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy

Anyone can see that, in fact, this is strictly applicable to the governments, as referred to in the Notes on Daniel, which sprang up after the incursion of the northern barbarians, and which were finally succeeded by the permanent forms of government in Europe.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes