What we now want is the new form of law by which common men may regain the positions of industry, so long disturbed by the war.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

but your kind opinion ought to teach me humility, and to reverence so generous a worth as can give a preference against yourself, where it is so little due.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

No doubt this impulse, or group of impulses, is continually leading men to shirk or scamp their strict duty, or to fall in some less definite way below their own ideal of conduct; hence the attitude habitually maintained towards it by preachers and practical moralists is that of repression.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Indeed, it is sometimes laid down generally, in reputable text-books, that a gratuitous bailment does not change the possession, but leaves it in the bailor; /4/ that a gratuitous bailee is quasi a servant of the bailor, and the possession of one is the possession of the other; and that it is for this reason that, although the bailee may sue on [174] his possession, the bailor has the same actions.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I sould love de enemy of France?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There is so little difference between the two states in other respects, and the contract of government is so completely dissolved by despotism, that the despot is master only so long as he remains the strongest; as soon as he can be expelled, he has no right to complain of violence.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fair damsels, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du Lake.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Thus Richard Crashaw (1613?-1649), the Catholic mystic, is interesting because his troubled life is singularly like Donne's, and his poetry is at times like Herbert's set on fire.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The icy stars look down on melancholy Shelterless creatures of a pillaged day: A day of disillusionment and terror, A day that yields no solace for the error
— from Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume 01 October-March, 1912-13 by Various

Well, said Sir Lamorak, since ye have said so largely unto me, my name is Sir Lamorak de Galis, son unto King Pellinore.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

II She looks down upon the dying garden : There rank death clutches at the flowers And drags them down and stamps in earth.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) New world idylls and poems of love by Madison Julius Cawein

I suppose Lord Dawton's representative, whose place you are to supply, is like Theseus, sedet eternumque sedebit.
— from Pelham — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I should be unpardonable, if, after what I have said, I should longer detain You with an Address of this Nature: I cannot, however, conclude it without owning those great Obligations which You have laid upon, Sir , Your most obedient, humble Servant, The Spectator .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It is named ἄλφος, when it is of a white colour, with some degree of roughness, and is not continuous, but appears as if some little drops were dispersed here and there; sometimes it spreads wider, but with certain intermissions or discontinuities.
— from Medica Sacra Or, A Commentary on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Richard Mead

The last volume of Bohn's Illustrated Library (published in New-York by Bangs & Brother), is "Scripture Lands, Described in a Series of Historical, Geographical, and Topographical Sketches," by John Kitto , D.D., F.S.A., the well-known author of the Dictionary of the Bible, &c. It embraces, in a convenient and condensed form, results of the most important recent investigations by travellers and scholars in the countries sacred for their connection with the history of true religion.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

Chance has made an artisan economical, chance has favored him with forethought, he has been able to look forward, has met with a wife and found himself a father, and, after some years of hard privation, he embarks in some little draper’s business, hires a shop.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac