Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment to her valued friend; and to see Marianne settled at the mansion-house was equally the wish of Edward and Elinor.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

As regards the external relations of nations, a state cannot be asked to give up its constitution, even although that be a despotism (which is, at the same time, the strongest constitution where foreign enemies are concerned), so long as it runs the risk of being immediately swallowed up by other states.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

When the cabal got up its Canadian expedition, it consisted of Lafayette, and penetrated no farther than Albany.
— from George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

If the trade in the precious metals were perfectly free, if they were generally used in circulation, even with the expenses of transporting them, the ex 310 change could never in any of them deviate more from par, than by these expenses.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

The gradual ripening of the Church therefore grows up into Christ ( , Eph. iv.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Dear the pain of giving up, If Christ enter in and sup.
— from A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald

The great empire sprang from a single [Pg 25] city, whose power and dominion grew until it comprised every civilized nation living upon the three continents then known.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

This general uniformity is conspicuous especially in the religious ideas which, except in the sceptical lettered circles, everywhere underlie the three recognised national religions, or "State Churches," as they might almost be called: ju-kiao , Confucianism; tao-kiao , Taoism; and fo-kiao , Buddhism (Fo = Buddha).
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

Before this eternal spectacle of illogical austerity, therefore, man, in self-defence and to comfort his craving and his weakness, has clung to the cheerful conceit of immortality; has pathetically credited the First Cause with a grand ultimate intention concerning each suffering atom; has assured himself that eternity shall wipe away all tears and blood, shall reward the actors in this puppet-show with golden crowns and nobler parts in a nobler playhouse.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts