"Daily in the Temple, and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Christ Jesus:" In which place it is manifest, that Jesus Christ was the subject of this Word of Life; or (which is all one) the subject of the Words of this Life Eternall, that our saviour offered them.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Thus reduced to the last expedient, that of stirring up the people against me, he, his colleagues, and other persons, set about it openly, and were so successful, that not-withstanding the strong and frequent rescripts of the king, and the orders of the council of state, I was at length obliged to quit the country, that I might not expose the officer of the king to be himself assassinated while he protected me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now if a law to this effect could only be made perpetual, and gain an authority such as already prevents intercourse of parents and children—such a law, extending to other sensual desires, and conquering them, would be the source of ten thousand blessings.
— from Laws by Plato

Meanwhile, as we thus lay entranced, the occasional sudden frantic spectacles in the distance evinced the activity of the other boats, still engaged in drugging the whales on the frontier of the host; or possibly carrying on the war within the first circle, where abundance of room and some convenient retreats were afforded them.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The hut of a savage, or the tent of an Arab, may be thrown down without injury to the inhabitant; and the Peruvians had reason to deride the folly of their Spanish conquerors, who with so much cost and labor erected their own sepulchres.
— 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

All theological language, except that of Scripture, breaks down under the tension of strict use.
— from Church Ministry in Kensington A Recent Case of Hieratical Teaching Scripturally Considered by John Philip Gell

Feeling unable to longer endure the ordeal, she arose and fled toward the door.
— from Overshadowed: A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

Foot archers of the lightest equipment, time of Sennacherib, Koyunjik 266.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Determined to make a last effort to obtain substantial assistance from the British authorities, the chiefs now waited upon Pollock, and entreated him to leave some British troops behind him for the support of the new monarch.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

It was Caesar, who, perhaps stimulated in this case also by the more humane Egyptian and Greek legislation, especially that of Solon,(68) introduced this principle—diametrically opposed to the maxims of the earlier ordinances as to bankruptcy— into the common law, where it has since retained its place undisputed.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Last evening, to our surprise and joy, Mrs. Coxe arrived.
— from Italian Days and Ways by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

And Isabella wept—and Richard also wept; for those noble-minded beings could not know, without the liveliest emotion, that one so sweet, so innocent, and so youthful, was stretched upon the bed from which she was destined never to rise again.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

"You'll find him boozing in one of the saloons, like enough, the old sot."
— from Michael McGrath, Postmaster by Ralph Connor