122 Some method might be fallen on to keep up a naval force in time of peace, if we should not judge it necessary to support a constant navy.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

635 The greater part of the country along the coast to Jerusalem is occupied by the Lake Sirbonis, and by the tract contiguous to it; for Jerusalem is near the sea, which, as we have said, 636 may be seen from the arsenal of Joppa.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But the Grecian Juno of Argos and the Roman Juno are not represented in this manner; so that the Grecians, the Lanuvinians, and we, ascribe different forms to Juno; and our Capitoline Jupiter is not the same with the Jupiter Ammon of the Africans.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Emily checked the tears, that trembled in her eyes, while she said, 'When my conduct shall deserve this severity, madam, you will do well to exercise it; till then justice, if not tenderness, should surely restrain it.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

There are three qualifications necessary for those who fill the first departments in government; first of all, an affection for the established constitution; second place, abilities every way completely equal to the business of their office; in the third, virtue and justice correspondent to the nature of that particular state they are placed in; for if justice is not the same in all states, it is evident that there must be different species thereof.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

And now the news had reached him in his hut that “God's judgment is not the same as man's,” and that something had happened which was “in excess of nature.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Twenty were condemned to death, and one could only regret that Captain du Petit Thouars judged it necessary to stop the execution when eleven had suffered, for the twenty were all equally guilty, and requiring a life for life of the eleven Frenchmen looked more like revenge than justice.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.
— 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

Their great-grandmothers, it is true, were sometimes troubled with the same longings, for among the many proclamations against the residence in London of country gentlemen in unofficial positions is one of James I., noticing "those swarms of gentry, who, through the instigation of their wives, do neglect their country hospitality and cumber the city, a general nuisance to the kingdom;" and the royal Solomon elsewhere observes that "gentlemen resident on their estates are like ships in port—their value and magnitude are felt and acknowledged; but when at a distance, as their size seemeth insignificant, so their worth and importance are not duly estimated."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

You are hereby required and directed to proceed with the said two sloops directly to the Cape of Good Hope, unless you shall judge it necessary to stop at Madeira, the Cape de Verd or Canary Islands, to take in wine for the use of their companies; in which case you are at liberty to do so, taking care to remain there no longer than may be necessary for that purpose.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

The message of this as of all the earlier chapters of Genesis is a universal one, but, like most other universal aspects of Judaism, it has found concrete expression in a specifically Jewish institution, namely the Sabbath, and, as our aim is to affect the Jewish life of the child it is through association of the ideas of the lesson with the institution of the Sabbath that we must endeavor to make them effective.
— from A Manual for Teaching Biblical History by Eugene Kohn

This, one would have thought, would have been clear at any rate to Jones, if not to Sarah Jane; but they both seemed at this time to have imagined that the eldest child had some right to the inheritance as being the eldest.
— from The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope

[44] “Beef juice is not the same as ‘dish gravy,’ since the latter contains a large amount of cooked fat and is often highly indigestible.”
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment is not the sole question, if indeed it is any part of it.
— from Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

As the old prophets had seen in the kings of Assyria, and Jeremiah in Nebuchadnezzar, the servants of Jehovah, who were to carry out his will on the nations, and hold the judgment day of the Lord, so did the Jews now see in Cyrus a man called to a similar mission, their saviour and liberator; he seemed to them the anointed of Jehovah.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

When it is charged that a transformed social 80 environment will not solve the problem presented by the slum, the sweatshop and the jail, as Socialists assert, we are justified in nailing the statement as false, and a libel on human nature.
— from Evolution Social and Organic by Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis

But (says Mandanê) justice is not the same here under Astyages, as it is in Persis.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote