Horum unus est, Si regnum disperdat, quemadmodum de Nerone fertur, quod is nempe senatum populumque Romanum, atque adeo urbem ipsam ferro flammaque vastare, ac novas sibi sedes quaerere decrevisset.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

"There is no such person," retorted Susan.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Ἀσχημοσύνη, ης, ἡ pr. external indecorum; nakedness, shame, pudenda, Re. 16.15; indecency, infamous lust or lewdness, Ro. 1.27: from Ἀσχήμων , ονος, ὁ, ἡ, τό, -ον, (ἀ & σχήμα) indecorous, uncomely, indecent, 1 Co. 12.23.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

As forestalling that question, and giving it a satisfactory answer, which else would painfully obtrude itself in the course of the Opium Confessions—“How came any reasonable being to subject himself to such a yoke of misery; voluntarily to incur a captivity so servile, and knowingly to fetter himself with such a sevenfold chain?”—a question which, if not somewhere plausibly resolved, could hardly fail, by the indignation which it would be apt to raise as against an act of wanton folly, to interfere with that degree of sympathy which is necessary in any case to an author’s purposes.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Besides, it is not showing proper respect to one so much older than myself—to one who was myself so very long before I became myself.
— from The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

His interest in political liberty, his conception of the struggle as one between tyranny and freedom, might appear modern were it not so plainly rooted in antique soil.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

Either this is the conclusion, or some means must be sought whereby to distinguish the evolution of religion from the evolution of thought, speech and morals, and to show that—whereas in the case of the latter, evolution is the process in which the principles whereon man should think, speak and act, tend to manifest themselves with increasing clearness—in the case of religion, there is no such progressive revelation, and no first principle, or fundamental idea, which all forms of religion seek to express.
— from The Idea of God in Early Religions by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

[286] “Yet,” said I, “even for battle, if we would acquit ourselves as becomes men, is not some previous rest almost essential?
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

If persons held to service in the Slave States are “property” under the Constitution, then under the provision known as “the three-fifths rule,” which founds representation in the other House on such persons, there is a property representation from the Slave States, with voice and vote, while there is no such property representation from the Free States.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Horum maximus Haldanus, Roe et Scato fratribus interfectis, naturam scelere polluit: regnum parricidio carpsit.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

"The Nome King is not so particular," remarked the Scarecrow.
— from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum