The divine mind in her revolution enjoys this fair prospect, and beholds justice, temperance, and knowledge in their everlasting essence.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

The King of Persia also very often reduces the Medes and Babylonians when they assume upon their former power: [1284b] and this is a principle which all governments whatsoever keep in their eye; even those which are best administered, as well as those which are not, do it; these for the sake of private utility, the others for the public good.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

In answer to the principal rejoinder, that the scepter had departed from Judah, and that the Christians, who possessed kings, thus formed the true people of Israel, the Jews pointed to a Jewish kingdom in the extreme East, which they asserted was ruled over by a descendant of David.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

But no watch was kept inside the encampment except for a daily inspection of the machines when the guard was changed at dawn.
— from The Instant of Now by Irving E. Cox

The hydrometer, divided into 24 qiráts, was well known in the East, even before the time of the Caliphates.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

Far flew the music's circling sound, Then floated back with soft rebound, To join, not mar, the converse round,— Sweet notes that melting still increased, Such as ne'er cheered the bridal feast Of king in the enchanted East.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

There, too, was Commander Stewart, whom I had known in the early eighties at St. Andrews.
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson

He'll never know it, though everybody else will."
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

But besides quotations from the poets he knew innumerable tags, epitaphs, epigrams, which used to come out on occasions: Sidney Smith’s receipt for a salad; Miss Fanshawe’s riddle, “’Twas whispered in heaven, ’twas muttered in hell”; and many other poems of this nature.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

He had been killed in the early evening as we lay in line and his death was not known to his comrades near him.
— from Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment by John G. B. (John Gregory Bishop) Adams

In 1858 appeared the important article on "Kant," in the eighth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica , which was written at the urgent request of his friend Adam Black, and which cost him ten months reading and preparation.
— from Principal Cairns by John Cairns

Some of the dramatic critics whom I knew in the early eighties and late seventies are still “hard at it,” I am pleased to hear.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay