5. Instance in keeping Compacts That men should keep their compacts is certainly a great and undeniable rule in morality.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Its genuine antiquity unquestionably renders it a singular curiosity; but it derives an additional interest from its representation of the primitive simplicity of a Homeric period—the infancy of customs and manners and emotions of that Hero-life, which the Homeric poems first painted for mankind:—that Hero-life of which Macpherson in his Ossian caught but imperfect conceptions from the fragments he may have collected, while he metamorphosed his ideal Celtic heroes into those of the sentimental romance of another age and another race.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The letter was from Mrs. Gordon, and upon reading it the mystery was explained.
— from Aaron the Jew: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

The guns, as usual, remained in action, supporting different divisions in the arduous work of adjusting the new trench line.
— from War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery by Austin Thomas Anderson

Some of the choicest flowers of the publications charitably written and circulated by them gratis are upon record in Walsingham and Knyghton: and I am inclined to prefer the pithy and sententious brevity of these bulletins of ancient rebellion before the loose and confused prolixity of the modern advertisements of constitutional information.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

If here and there might be found some perverted being who relished his luxuries the more keenly for the sight of others' want, yet the general and universal rule is that happiness is stimulated by the sight of the happiness of others.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

The chief were across King Street, Hammersmith, where it joins Goldhawk Road, across the junction of Goldhawk and Uxbridge Roads, in Harrow Road where it joins Admiral Road, and Willesden Lane, close to the Paddington Cemetery, and the Latimer Road opposite St. Quintin Park Station.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

The lands in this part of the world which are now under your highnesses' sway are richer and more extensive than those of any other Christian power; and yet, after that I had, by the Divine will, placed them under your high and royal sovereignty, and was on the point of bringing your majesties into the receipt of a very great and unexpected revenue,… I was arrested and thrown, with my two brothers, loaded with irons, into a ship, stripped and very ill treated, without being allowed any appeal to justice. . . .
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

Here they gained an unexpected recruit in Madame de la Peltrie, foundress of the Order of Ursulines at Quebec, who abandoned their convent and carried off all the furniture she had lent them.
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

I could get an unfurnished room if [she slides her eyes round at WELLWYN]
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The name of Adamantios Korais will never die from the memory of every patriot Greek, and yet his sincere opinion that "the Greek nation shall never be great again, unless regenerated in Christ," had little effect upon the hearts of the people, or rather upon the hearts of the leaders of the people.
— from Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden