In the third place, as the constitutions of the States differ much from each other, it might happen that a treaty or national law, of great and equal importance to the States, would interfere with some and not with other constitutions, and would consequently be valid in some of the States, at the same time that it would have no effect in others.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It is the being such that makes that age so acceptable: for who does not esteem it somewhat ominous to see a boy endowed with the discretion of a man, and therefore for the curbing of too forward parts we have a disparaging proverb, Soon ripe, soon rotten?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

And to annoy us and rouse us to fight they used to spoil our work; they would, for instance, smear over the signal boxes with green paint.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He perceived in all these incidents much more magic than love, probably a sorceress, perhaps the devil; a comedy, in short, or to speak in the language of that day, a very disagreeable mystery, in which he played a very awkward part, the role of blows and derision.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

And that Thou, who only art Eternal, didst not begin to work after innumerable spaces of times spent; for that all spaces of times, both which have passed, and which shall pass, neither go nor come, but through Thee, working and abiding.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

As life is the whole law and incessant effort of the visible universe, and death only the other or invisible side of the same, so the utile , so truth, so health are the continuous-immutable laws of the moral universe, and vice and disease, with all their perturbations, are but transient, even if ever so prevalent expressions.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

It is situate on the slope of a hill, and in front of it lies a rock, upon which they point out the vestiges of the chains by which Andromeda was bound 3630 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I sat on the stump of a tree at his feet, and below us stretched the land, the great expanse of the forests, sombre under the sunshine, rolling like a sea, with glints of winding rivers, the grey spots of villages, and here and there a clearing, like an islet of light amongst the dark waves of continuous tree-tops.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

25 Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I have treated laughter here only from the psychical side; with regard to the physical side, I refer to what is said on the subject in the “Parerga,” vol.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Again he tested the depth of water in the hold, and found, to his horror, that it was gaining, in spite of the steady working of the pump.
— from A Year in a Yawl A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl by Russell Doubleday

When I came out I sat on the same seat in the Square.
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy

The MORNING became, as it were, a part of his own being; and he felt that as the world in spite of the storms is fair, so in spite of evil God is good.
— from Night and Morning, Volume 3 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

An international society of the same character held its first meeting in Brussels in 1862.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

He had made his way to the steps of the throne, and the more religious brethren were now startled to find him shamelessly canvassing for votes, in spite of the stern prohibition in their Constitutions.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

The old castle is situated on the summit of a hill to the west of the town, its two black-banded towers of the middle ages proclaiming loudly the era of its birth.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Wrexler caught my arm, "That's the girl—the one I saw on the stairs."
— from The Lost Door by Dorothy Quick

There were a great number of children in it, some of them so very young in their mothers’ arms as to be in the act of practically exemplifying their abstinence from fermented liquors, and attachment to an unintoxicating drink, while the procession defiled.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

our party on Shores did not join us this evening we Camped on an Island Situated on the S. Side, opposit some hills higher than Common, Say 160 or 180 feet above the Bottom.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Probably some coal jerked out of the galley-fire had found its way below, and had ignited some of the stores.
— from Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston