However, take you notice, that God is great, and that this very man, whom you are going to absolve and dismiss, for the sake of Hyrcanus, will one day punish both you and your king himself also."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

That God is great; and that there is nothing else great!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

“--B.] Thence took coach at White Hall and took up my wife, who is mighty sad to think of her father, who is going into Germany against the Turkes; but what will become of her brother I know not.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is I who govern, I govern all the time, I, whom he dismissed.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

Only here will thy wisdom be manifested—to wit, that thou grow in grace, and that thou use lawfully and diligently the means to do it (2 Peter 3:18; Phil 2:10,11;
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

That their studied absence from all scenes social hilarity, their grave looks on festal days, their garlanded heads, their simple attire, their utter estrangement from the Graces, which in truth were the legitimate Gods in Greece, and the true mothers of whole family of Olympus, would be likely to conciliate towards the Gospel the favorable dispositions classic antiquity!
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

In those trances, I saw, as it were, our pleasant village green, all sparkling again with schoolboys at their pastimes; then I fancied them gathering into groups, and telling the story of the murder; again, moving away in silence towards the churchyard, to look at the grave of poor Bradley.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number by Various

I intersperse also the comment that it is the Germans who seem to prevail now in any given international group, and that they have the air of coming forward to take the front seats as by right; while the English, once so confident of their superiority, seem to yield the places to them.
— from A Little Swiss Sojourn by William Dean Howells

Gradually I got accustomed to the danger which surrounded me, and only when too much sand from the striking bullets was thrown on my body did I remember my little enviable position.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

No, I don’t guess I got any time to spare.
— from Mark Tidd in the Backwoods by Clarence Budington Kelland

Let us contrast the merriment and folly of one of these gay and trifling assemblages, with the pure, earnest and solemn worship of the glorious intelligences gathered around the throne of the infinite God.
— from A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing by John F. Mesick

[203] is good, it therefore exists first in the mind of God; and since all that is in the mind of God is God, according to the -215- saying, "What was made, in Him was life;"
— from Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Anxious to reach what I esteemed safe ground, I gladly adverted to the campaign; and at last, hurried on by the impulse to cover my embarrassment, was describing some skirmish with a French outpost.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever