Its negative dogmas I confine to one, intolerance, which is a part of the cults we have rejected.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nor, be it noted, does it count the $20,000,000 we [ 600 ] paid Spain for the Islands, which item, is, however included in another part of Mr. Slayden’s speech.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

There is no difficulty in conceiving the intention of the Roman princes to improve their revenue by some restraints upon commerce; but as Nisibis was situated within their own dominions, and as they were masters both of the imports and exports, it should seem that such restraints were the objects of an internal law, rather than of a foreign treaty.
— 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

She read as follows: We, the people of the Un I ted States, I n order to form a more perfect un I on, establ I sh just I ce, I nsure domest I c tranqu
— from Through the Outlooking Glass by Simeon Strunsky

Indeed, as war is not declared, I conclude there is always some treating on the anvil; and, should it end well, at least this age will have made a step towards humanity, in omitting the ceremonial of proclamation, which seems to make it easier to cease being at war.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

When we take into account the length of Adam’s life and that of his sons, there is no difficulty in concluding that those indelible impressions would be handed down to his posterity, with the history of the Lord’s dealings with him, and what had been revealed to him as the means of propitiation, or being reconciled to Him.
— from Jesus Fulfils the Law by Anonymous

"I have not the remotest idea, nor do I care to know.
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

I ain't in no danger, I can tell you.
— from High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

He looked down with tender patience and compassion upon the development of the woman's intrigue in the palace, through the very flower of her crafts and guiles, to save Him who had transfigured her from the hands of the rabble and the high priests; he did not even shrink from the inexpressibly grating note of the purified Magdalene's final passionate tendering of her personal sacrifice to the enamoured Pilate as the price of His freedom, and when at the last she wept at His feet where He lay bound and delivered, and wrapped them, in the agony of her abandonment, in the hair of her head, the priest's lips almost moved in words other than those of the playwright—words that told her he knew the height and the depth of her sacrifice and forgave it, “Neither do I condemn thee....”
— from The Path of a Star by Sara Jeannette Duncan

It seems right to disregard the temperature recorded for the attached thermometer, and to use the air temperature, of which there is no doubt, in correcting the barometric reading.
— from The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck