In this letter it was stated that Lord Landsdowne had studied the question with the interest which His Majesty's Government always felt bound to take in every serious plan destined to better the condition of the Jewish race.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Thou hast had mercy beyond all hope upon Thy servant, and hast showed Thy grace and friendship beyond all deserving.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

This natural Love is not observed in animals to ascend from the Young to the Parent, which is not at all necessary for the Continuance of the Species: Nor indeed in reasonable Creatures does it rise in any Proportion, as it spreads it self downwards; for in all Family Affection, we find Protection granted and Favours bestowed, are greater Motives to Love and Tenderness, than Safety, Benefits, or Life received.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, "Anywhere; they will find me;" and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the inscription "Arthur Schopenhauer," without even the date of his birth or death.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

At the further end of the gallery a few blankets were lying, and with some mining implements, a kettle of water, a few worn flannel shirts, were the only articles which this subterranean habitation possessed.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

For there are Factions of the Stranger, 'de l'etranger,' Factions of Moderates, of Enraged; all manner of Factions: we walk in a world of Plots; strings, universally spread, of deadly gins and falltraps, baited by the gold of Pitt!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint; and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

As for Ditton, after all his courting, and his compliment, he stole away an Irishman’s bride, and took a French leave of me and his master; but I vally not his going a farting; but I have had hanger on his account—Mistriss scoulded like mad; thof I have the comfit that all the family took my part, and even Mr Clinker pleaded for me on his bended knee; thof, God he knows, he had raisins enuff to complain; but he’s a good sole, abounding with Christian meekness, and one day will meet with his reward.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Many of these were at once taken to Italy, Germany, and France by the scholars flying from the barbarous conquerors of their land, and the works were thus brought to the knowledge and made available for the use of European students.
— from The Reign of the Manuscript by Perry Wayland Sinks

Van Emmon turned the light upon every corner of the place before going any further; but except for a formless heap of rubbish in one corner, which they did not investigate, the place was as bare as the rest of the floor.
— from The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

In a short time they arrived at the Fort, where Owens decided not to go any further, because they were informed by the men at Bent's that the Utes had broken out, and were scattered along the Trail at the most dangerous points, and he was fearful that his life would be endangered if he attempted to make Santa Fe.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

Let us now give a few blows of the pick to the surface beneath which the singular incidents already in our mind must be occurring, beneath which similar things occurred last year; perhaps we shall find some evidence of the parasitism which we suspected.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

The American fleet in the river, consisting chiefly of galleys and floating batteries, was commanded by Commodore Hazlewood.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

What great and fierce battle would lay the Germans low?
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

Why, in common reason, equity demands that I afford you my protection so far as Burgos, messire, just as plainly as equity demands I slay de Gâtinais and fetch back my wife to England.”
— from Chivalry: Dizain des Reines by James Branch Cabell

He had not been gone a fortnight, before she received a letter from him, written in a French prison, where he was confined for debt.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 4, October 1837 by Various

The stronger party, in all governments, are free by virtue of their superior strength.
— from An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner