In the prophetic literature of these States, (the reader of my speculations will miss their principal stress unless he allows well for the point that a new Literature, perhaps a new Metaphysics, certainly a new Poetry, are to be, in my opinion, the only sure and worthy supports and expressions of the American Democracy,) Nature, true Nature, and the true idea of Nature, long absent, must, above all, become fully restored, enlarged, and must furnish the pervading atmosphere to poems, and the test of all high literary and esthetic compositions.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“Wars,” says Cicero, “are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war: for example, our forefathers received, even as members of their state, the Tuscans, the Æqui, the Volscians, the Sabines and the Hernici, but utterly destroyed Carthage and Numantia....
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

[ Contents ] NOTES [ Note : In the following notes, citations from Richard Eden are made from Arber’s reprint
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The unity of the State will be symbolized by the coat-of-arms and the flag of the Kingdom. (4) The special Serb, Croat, and Slovene flags rank equally and may be freely hoisted on all occasions.
— from The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement by Frank Alfred Golder

It would be a sad thing if the soldiers were to look to ME for redress; especially after my being sent to a felon’s jail, which, of course, was to mark me out for a man to be shunned, rather than looked up to.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

By this time many of us had been transferred from the RAOC into the newly formed Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, REME, changing our ranks from privates to craftsmen, this sounded good but we were still at the bottom of the totem pole.
— from Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by John Cox

without an hour for repentance, even a moment for reflection; dead I without the rites which even the best should have.
— from The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Cicero says:—“When we obtain the victory we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war; for example, our forefathers received, even as members of their state, the Tuscans, the Aequi, the Volscians, the Sabines, and the Hernici, but utterly destroyed Carthage and Numantia….
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Although independence was attained in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, true freedom remains elusive as many of the former Soviet elite remain entrenched, stalling efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties.
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Indeed, I slept later than suited my purposes—being for rising early and making a long day's march of it—and I might have wasted still more time in drowsing lazily had I not been wakened a little before sunrise by the rattle on the cabin roof of a dashing burst of rain.
— from In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

Dalziell, Esq., W.S.; W. Wood, Esq.; R. Paul, Esq.; Francis Russell, Esq., advocate; M. Torrance, Esq.; Dr. Russell; Dr. Geo.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

Neoti et monachis Beccensibus pro anima Roberti filii Ricardi et antecessorum meorum.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round