"The manner," says he, "in which the governments of those States where slavery exists are to regulate it is for their own consideration, under their responsibility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and justice, and to God.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

But in all the great lines of public and private jurisprudence, the legislators of Rome and Athens appear to be strangers or adverse at each other.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

361 It was this Lord Derwentwater--afterwards executed for taking part in the 1745 rebellion--who with several other Jacobites is said to have founded the Grand Lodge of Paris in 1725, and himself to have become Grand Master.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

And of that work it has been truly said that "no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and administration of the Freedmen's Bureau." On May 12, 1865, Howard was appointed; and he assumed the duties of his office promptly on the 15th, and began examining the field of work.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

nying, negative Gwadu, v. to deny; to disown Gwadd, n. a mole Gwaddeg, n. a spout; a scuttle Gwaddod, n. sediment, lees Gwaddodi, v. to cast a sedement Gwaddodlyd, a. feculent, dreggy Gwaddol, n. a portion; money Gwaddoli, v. to dower Gwae, n. woe Gwaed, n. blood or gore Gwaedboer, n. blood-spitting Gwaedgi, n. a blood-hound Gwaedglais, n. blood stripe Gwaedgoll, n. bloodshed Gwaediad, n. a bleeding Gwaedled, bloody, blood-stained Gwaedlif, n. a bloody-flux Gwaedlin, n. an issue of blood Gwaedlyd, a. bloody; cruel Gwaedlydu, to stain with blood Gwaedlys, n. blood-wort Gwaedneu, n. a blood issue Gwaedog, abounding with blood Gwaedogaeth, n. sanguinity Gwaedogen, n. a blood pudding, a black pudding Gwaedoli, v. to sanguify Gwaedol, sanguineous of blood Gwaedoliaeth, n. kindred by blood, consanguinity Gwaedraidd, a. running with blood Gwaedrod, n. a course of blood Gwaedu, v. to bleed, to let blood Gwaedd, n. a cry, a shout Gwaeddan, n. a bawler Gwaeddfan, a. loud shouting Gwaeddgreg, a. hoarse shouting Gwaeddi, v. to cry, to shout Gwaeddiad, n. a crying out Gwaeddolef, n. a cry a woe Gwaefyd, n. a state of woe Gwäeg, n. a fibula; a clasp Gwäegiad, n. a buckling Gwäegu, v. to buckle; to clasp Gwael, a. low, vile; poorly Gwaeledd, n. vileness; misery Gwaeleddu, v. to make wretched Gwaelni, vileness; wretchedness Gwaelod, n. a bottom, a base Gwaelodi, v. to bottom Gwaelodiad, n. a bottoming Gwaelodion, n. bottoms Gwaelu, v. to grow low or poor; to become faint Gwaeddol, a. crying, shouting Gwaeu, v. to make vile Gwäell, gwëyll, n. a skewer, a broach; a knitting needle; a spindle.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Now they were just another animal added to humanity’s growing list of pets and livestock.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

‘The Burning of Rome by the Gauls involved the destruction of all the existing records, and great loss of property.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Good laws often proceed from bad manners.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have equalled.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the same period, we behold a sultan of Egypt, Melie-Saleh, giving lessons of probity to the successor of St. Peter.
— from The Power of the Popes An Historical Essay on Their Temporal Dominion, and the Abuse of Their Spiritual Authority by P. C. F. (Pierre Claude François) Daunou

As described by the finder, and by others to whom they were shown, these golden leaves or plates were engraved with fine characters having all the appearance of ancient and curious workmanship.
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

"I hope you've got lots of paper.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

Both sections were agreed as to the general lines of policy.
— from Sinn Fein: An Illumination by P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield) O'Hegarty

Having heard at Patras the worst accounts of Zante since it passed under Greek rule, I was not a little surprised by the excellent condition of the roads and the general look of prosperity.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Now and again he can shake it off, and write with something of his old buoyancy of spirits; then the burden returns, heavy with a weight of listless indifference, or with a galling load of pain.
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

85 An 1848 broadside entitled "The Glassblowers' List of Prices of Druggist's Ware," a broadside preserved at the Smithsonian Institution, includes listings for Turlington's Balsam, Godfrey's Cordial, Dalby's and Small and Large Opodeldoc bottles, among many other American patent medicine bottles.
— from Old English Patent Medicines in America by James Harvey Young

His engravings were much clearer than those procured by anyone else at that time, but he was not a great lecturer, only painstaking and observant.
— from The Academic Gregories by Agnes Grainger Stewart

A general law of "persons" applied to and shielded her.
— from Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener