Antipathy to the Jew began long before the Christian era; in Egypt, Persia, and Rome he became, whether just or not, the object of suspicion to rulers.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In a co-operative industrial association, is it just or not that talent or skill should give a title to superior remuneration?
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

He begged the Japanese officials not to bandage his eyes, and began to chant a verse which might be thus translated: "I do not regret being taken and put to death, For to kill barbarians is the true spirit of a Japanese." As the attendants were drawing back the clothes from his neck to prepare it for the executioner's stroke, he bade them loosen his cords so that they might do it with greater ease, adding: "In after ages they will say, what a fine fellow was Shimidzu Seiji."
— 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

From what has been admitted, then, this consideration arises, whether it is just or not that I should endeavor to leave this place without the permission of the Athenians.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

This Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate gospel of love, this "Redeemer" bringing salvation and victory to the poor, the sick, the sinful—was he not really temptation in its most sinister and irresistible form, temptation to take the tortuous path to those very Jewish values and those very Jewish ideals?
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Let us now suppose a little sweet juice or nectar to be excreted by the inner bases of the petals of a flower.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I have had him ill upon my hands near four years;—and have since travelled him and Corporal Trim in a chariot-and-four, a journey of near two hundred miles down into Yorkshire.—all which put together, must have prepared the reader's imagination for the entrance of Dr. Slop upon the stage,—as much, at least (I hope) as a dance, a song, or a concerto between the acts.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

With the Egyptians, it was the gross Fetichism of the superstitious populace, and the local jealousy of neighboring towns.
— 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

Judges ought not to be responsible to the people, but solely to their own consciences and to God.
— from History of the Constitutions of Iowa by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh

[107] “Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.” 5.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

A brilliant cavalcade, headed by Orange, accompanied by Count John of Nassau, the Prince de Chimay and other notables, met him at Vilvoorde, and escorted him to the city gate.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Now, put all these together—to wit, his resurrection from the dead, his ascension, and exaltation to office; and remember also that the person thus exalted is the same Jesus of Nazareth that sometime was made accursed of God for sin, and also that he obtained this glory by virtue of the blood that was shed for us, and it must unavoidably follow that Jesus Christ, by what he hath done, hath paid a full price to God for sinners, and obtained eternal redemption for them.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The emotions of the senses do not suffice us; in the treasure house of the simple joys of nature there is nothing sufficiently exquisite to fill our high demands; we would fain grasp heaven, and it is not within our reach.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Whether from Jeremiah or not, this is one of the most critical texts of the Old Testament because while repeating what the Prophet has already fervently accepted, 298 that the terms of the deuteronomic Covenant were simply obedience to the ethical demands of God, it contradicts Deuteronomy and even more strongly Leviticus, in their repeated statements that in the wilderness God also commanded sacrifices.
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

Whether the judgment was just or not, that point of view is the one to take.
— from The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

Two classes in their lower grades inevitably hostile—The spiritual and temporal powers—The functions of both not easily exercised by the same person—Humboldt, Faraday, Livingstone—The difficulty about time—Limits to the energy of the individual—Jealousy between the classes—That this jealousy ought not to exist—Some of the sciences based upon an industrial development—The work of the intellectual class absolutely necessary in a highly civilized community—That it grows in numbers and influence side by side with the industrial class.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton