If I had had to make choice of the place of my birth, I should have preferred a society which had an extent proportionate to the limits of the human faculties; that is, to the possibility of being well governed: in which every person being equal to his occupation, no one should be obliged to commit to others the functions with which he was entrusted: a State, in which all the individuals being well known to one another, neither the secret machinations of vice, nor the modesty of virtue should be able to escape the notice and judgment of the public; and in which the pleasant custom of seeing and knowing one another should make the love of country rather a love of the citizens than of its soil.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We have often need of strength and prudence wherewith to oppose the exigencies of most of our friends who make a claim on our confidence, and seek to know all about us.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

She asked the turnpike-keeper if she might deposit her things at his house for a while, and, on his offering no objection, she dismissed her carriage, and went on to the village alone by a back lane.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

That we have our notion of succession and duration from this original, viz.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Whe'er thou be'st he or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Whether thou be’st he or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, 115 The affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave— An if this be at all—a most strange story.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

Now Rávaṇ in his doubt and dread Has roused the monster from his bed, Who comes in this the hour of need On slaughtered Vánars flesh to feed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Hee hath engag'd her; his, she wholy bides; Who not her owne, none others secrets hides.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Wagner now seemed to feel his own need of some sort of regular study, for he matriculated at the University of Leipsic, chiefly in order that he might attend the lectures on æsthetics and philosophy.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Henderson (Hugh) on nitrate of silver, 134.
— from Notes and Queries, Index to Eighth Volume, July-December 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

He was so poor that he had often no other shelter than the woods and hedges afforded, or any food save wild fruits and the herbs of the field.
— from Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Whether he had any better right to own the several other slaves whiter than this one whom those same witnesses of his were forward to state he owned and had owned, no one seems to have inquired.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

Neither his open nor our secret fault must utterly dismay us.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

"Dr. Washington has been in my home in Jacksonville; I have now had the honor of not only shaking hands with him, but of having him as my special guest.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

The hyphenation (or not) of several words appears to have changed over the nine year period in which these stories were written.
— from Happy Days by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

He wrote to the Senate, stating that in his opinion not only should Pompeius be summoned home from Spain, but Lucullus also from the East, to aid in putting down an enemy who was unconquerable by ordinary means.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

But he candidly admits, "I have heard of no other such case in the animal or vegetable kingdom."
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

For there was hunderds and hunderds of not only spectably drest Gents, but also of reel-looking Ladys, a skatin away like fun, and a larfing away and injying theirselves jest as if it had bin a nice Summer's day.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 by Various