246 “Go on!” urged Rob delightedly.
— from Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates

In the resolutions adopted by the bar of Hillsborough county, and entered upon the records of the supreme court, Judge Clarke was described as "a public officer faithful and upright, discharging his official duties with signal ability; a lawyer of large experience in his profession, of well balanced judgment and discretion, well read in the principles of the law, and faithful alike to the court and his client; a citizen patriotic and public-spirited; in his private relations, a gentleman of unblemished reputation, distinguished for his high-toned character, affable manners, and uniform courtesy; and illustrating in his public and private life the character of a Christian gentleman, governed by the principles which he was not ashamed to profess."
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

The grandson of Uncle Remus does not [170] feel that he must stand with his hat in his hand when he is in our presence, and he even presumes to help us in the running of our government.
— from The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

The design of them is not so much to render the subjects good men, as good citizens: they order the practice of those virtues that may strengthen civil society, and discountenance those vices only which weaken the sinews of it: but God, being the guardian of universal righteousness, doth not only enact the observance of all righteousness, but the observance of it as righteousness.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock