175 I now proceed to the latter part of your testimony, and that, for which all the foregoing seems only an introduction, viz. 176 “It hath ever been our judgment and principle, since we were called to profess the light of Christ Jesus, manifested in our consciences unto this day, that the setting up and putting down kings and governments, is God’s peculiar prerogative; for causes best known to himself:
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

but he must often fall into those mistakes: he had need of too many parts, considerations, and circumstances, rightly to level his design: he must know the sick person’s complexion, his temperament, his humours, inclinations, actions, nay, his very thoughts and imaginations; he must be assured of the external circumstances, of the nature of the place, the quality of the air and season, the situation of the planets, and their influences: he must know in the disease, the causes, prognostics, affections, and critical days; in the drugs, the weight, the power of working, the country, figure, age, and dispensation, and he must know how rightly to proportion and mix them together, to beget a just and perfect symmetry; wherein if there be the least error, if amongst so many springs there be but any one out of order, ‘tis enough to destroy us.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I am sad and heart-broken, not for the angelic and sublime woman who now shines out in the world of spirits while we here below regret her, but for you, my poor sad man, to whom she was a holy and meek companion; for your dear children whose joy and pride she was; for myself, to whom she was ever a discreet and considerate protectress.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

The ingenious manner in which a box of treasure, consisting principally of jewels and precious stones, was stolen from Gloomhurst Castle has been handed down as a tradition in the De Gourney family.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Baffral , James, a prolific statistical writer, baptized at Strasburg on Christmas Day, 1859; his wife ( née Levy ) and five children two years later.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

In such alliance couldst thou wish to join, A palace stored with treasures should be thine.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

He was plainly expectant of a rebuff, and he was just as plainly surprised when her teeth did not flash out at him in anger.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Just at present she was availing herself of her brother's hospitality because she had no assistant at all at the "Alexander," and was afraid to stay in its very unsavoury environment alone.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

It may well be supposed, that the sudden disappearance of Sir Osborne Maurice, at the same time as that of Lady Constance de Grey, had given rise to many strange rumours, none of which, of course, did Lady Katrine believe; and, to do her justice, although perhaps she was not at all sorry that Constance had judged it right to put an end to any further proceedings regarding her marriage with Lord Darby, by removing herself from the court, yet Lady Katrine suffered no one to hint a doubt in her presence regarding her friend's conduct.
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Like Apollo, he has to do with light, and no pollution can come near him; he has also to do with the administration of justice, and pronounces sentences which can never be reversed.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

But to lie to a bishop raised the operation from just a private sin which God would deal with kindly on being asked, to a crime you were punished for if it was a cathedral you did it to, a real crime, the crime of sacrilege.
— from The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth Von Arnim

But she was dazzling enough to turn stronger heads than those of [111] the sheepish sophomores, pert juniors, and priggish seniors, who would compose her train, thought Wyllys, surveying her with the deliberate freedom of a brotherly friend.
— from Jessamine: A Novel by Marion Harland