It may set up several classes of citizens, and even lay down the qualifications for membership of these classes, but it cannot nominate such and such persons as belonging to them; it may establish a monarchical government and hereditary succession, but it cannot choose a king, or nominate a royal family.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

THEN upon the morn Sir Palomides returned from the King of Northgalis, and rode to King Arthur's side, where was King Carados, and the King of Ireland, and Sir Launcelot's kin, and Sir Gawaine's kin.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

This knowledge of nature again reacts upon this idea—its cause; and thus our belief in a divine author of the universe rises to the power of an irresistible conviction.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Though supplied with these, and putting ourselves under their guidance, we can make no teleological use of the knowledge of nature, as regards cognition, unless nature itself has established teleological unity.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Mechanism and teleology: these then are the two new terms for the antithesis formed by the knowledge of Nature and religious knowledge.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

Our fashions and our colors and our speeds Set forth His praise Who framed us and Who feeds, Who knows our number and regards our needs.
— from Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The shoulder of a high peak dropped sharply to a kind of nick and rose again in a long graceful curve of snow.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

Charles would thus avoid the Neapolitan Prince, Ferrante, who had been sent by his father, now King Alfonso, to hold the Romagna, and would maintain his communications with the sea which had been won by the victory of the Duke of Orleans over Don Federigo, the brother of the King of Naples, at Rapallo (September 8). Florence, moreover, it was hoped, would declare for France on the king’s approach.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

In order to prevent the convocation of the States and the appointment of the King of Navarre as regent, but one course appeared to be open to Catharine: she must throw herself into the arms of the Guises.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Gudrun , a heroine in an old German epic so called; betrothed to Herwig, king of Zealand, and carried off by Hochmut, king of Norway, a rejected suitor; preferred out of respect to her vow to serve as a menial in his mother's kitchen rather than be his wife; was rescued from durance by her brother and her betrothed, and being married to Herwig, pardoned the suitor that had stolen her from his embraces.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall