Not merely in partisan works, but in manuals of history or literature for use in Schools, Burke is reproached for warning us against the French Revolution and Carlyle's panegyric is applauded.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Also to worship God, not as inanimating, or present in the place, or Image; but to the end to be put in mind of him, or of some works of his, in case the Place, or Image be dedicated, or set up by private authority, and not by the authority of them that are our Soveraign Pastors, is Idolatry.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He takes the kris (yours, if you prefer it) from its wooden handle, and, holding the steel point downwards in his left hand, he recites a short incantation to the effect that he knows all about iron, and where it comes from, and that it must obey his orders.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

He works in metals on his own account.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The failure of any of these conditions renders a form of government, whatever favorable promise it may otherwise hold out, unsuitable to the particular case.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

And to these angels God does not speak, as we speak to one another, or to God, or to angels, or as the angels speak to us, or as God speaks to us through them: He speaks to them in an ineffable manner of His own, and that which He says is conveyed to us in a manner suited to our capacity.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It is not love, it is not hate, Nor low Ambition's honours lost, That bids me loathe my present state, And fly from all I prized the most: It is that weariness which springs From all I meet, or hear, or see:
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The Gods themselves are good unto such; yea and in some things, (as in matter of health, of wealth, of honour,) are content often to further their endeavours: so good and gracious are they.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

He wrote in the Æolic dialect, and was the inventor of a metre that bears his name (Alcaics), which Horace has employed in many of his odes.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Our adventurer, who dreaded such an interview as the infallible means of his own ruin, resisted the proposal with the whole power of his elocution.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I may only have one leg, but yours wouldn't be the first head which I've splintered with a wooden one.
— from Frivolities, Especially Addressed to Those Who Are Tired of Being Serious by Richard Marsh

I am always glad to see his brown, keen, sensible old face, either in my own house or any other.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

At the request of General Hamilton, I replied that I would detail these ideas to Colonel Burr; but added, that if in his first letter he had introduced the idea (if it was a correct one) that he could recollect of no terms that would justify the construction made by Dr. Cooper, it would, in my opinion, have opened a door for accommodation.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

"It means our holding out for twelve months," he said.
— from The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace

ty of any act that need have caused a separation, or prevented a re-union, and that the imputations upon him rest on the vaguest conjecture; that whatever real or fancied wrongs Lady Byron may have endured are shrouded in an impenetrable mist of her own creation,—a poisonous miasma in which she enveloped the character of her husband, raised by her breath, and which her breath only could have dispersed.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"He had influence, money of his own, brains, a splendid professional future, everything!"
— from Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

"Meanwhile I, representing our cowboy, hold the remaining coils in my other hand, only changing the position of my forefinger so as to secure better control of the coils.
— from The Jungle Fugitives: A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring by Edward Sylvester Ellis

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live, and enjoy his being, who is engaged in some laudable pursuit and acquire a name by some illustrious action or useful art.
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson

Because he is Master of his own work.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Were they all such agreeable people whom he had seen there in March, or has one girl the power to throw a charm over a whole watering-place?
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner