In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Honorius 396 himself also, having run his course, departed this life in the year of our Lord 653, on the 30th of September; and when the see had been vacant a year and six months, Deusdedit 397 of the nation of the West Saxons, was chosen the sixth Archbishop of Canterbury.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Nevertheless, this sea of harmony is not a chaos; great and profound as it is, it has not lost its transparency; you behold the windings of each group of notes which escapes from the belfries.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin,—so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely what an animal feels.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[70] In the year 1206 pleas of the crown were pleaded in the Tower; likewise in the year 1220, and likewise in the year 1224, and [47] again in the year 1243, before William of Yorke, Richard Passelew, Henry Brahe, Jerome of Saxton, justices.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“True, Dantès, I forgot that there was at the Catalans someone who expects you no less impatiently than your father—the lovely Mercédès.” Dantès blushed.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Among the immigrants from Numedal who located there later in the year of 1842 were: Ole Helgeson Lien, wife Turi, [154] and children, Barbro and Ole, from Nore; Niels Olson Smetbak, wife Barbro Olsdatter, and family, from Nore; Mrs. Ole Bakli (Bagley), widow, and her son, Ole, from Flesberg; Björn Guldbrandsen Mörkvold, wife Asbjör and son, Guldbrand; Hellik Gunderson Hvashovd and wife, Marit, from Flesberg; Hellik’s parents, Gunder Gunderson Hvashovd and wife, Kirsti; Mari Guldbrandsen (cousin of Gunnar Hvashovd) and her daughter, Kristi (born Kristoffersen 1826); Herbrand Tollefson Mörkvold and son, Ole, and daughter, Ragnild; Torstein Levorsen Bergrud, wife Kirsti Gundersdatter (born Hvashovd) and son, Levor, from Flesberg; Thore Olson Kaasa, wife Anne Torsteinsdatter, and daughter Aslau, from Rollaug; Ole Amundson Buind, wife Helene (Brandt), and daughter Anne, from Flesberg; Gjertrud Olsdatter Sælabakka (born 1822), from Rollaug; Juul Gisleson Hamre (born 1805), with wife Anne Gundersdatter, and children, Gisle, Kjersti, and Gunder, and his sister, Anne Gislesdatter, from Flesberg (born 1797); Hellik Helliksen Foslieiet (born 1812), his wife Sigrid, and children, Hellik (born 1833), Anders (born 1835), Marit (born 1838), Christoffer (born 1841).
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Arsing around from one pub to another, leaving it to your own honour, with old Giltrap’s dog and getting fed up by the ratepayers and corporators.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And the person of greatest social prominence should make the first visit, or at least invite the younger or less prominent one to call on her; which the younger should promptly do.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

What marvels of the soul's life have ye achieved upon the earth since he left it to your trust?
— from The Supply at Saint Agatha's by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Very likely in the years she has lived near the college she has met with some rude girls.
— from Marjorie Dean, College Junior by Josephine Chase

Ovariotomy saved more lives than any other surgical operation, but, taking Somerville as a basis of calculation, the ascertained results of preventive medicine had saved more lives in ten years, among thirty thousand people, than ovariotomy would save in the same time among two millions.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

The first edition of the first decade was published at Lisbon in the year 1553.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

As already stated, the payment of the annual rent of rushes is associated with Midsummer Eve; but it did not prevent the top of South Barrule from being visited likewise later in the year.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

“Well, sir!” said I, rising, “as you cannot assist me, I will now take my leave; I thank you sincerely for your kind reception, and will trouble you no longer.”
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

There are heads to lose in this, yours and mine, if there be mistake."
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough

But I leave it to you
— from Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

But when she said a little later, “I thought you would say it is not true,” I took courage, and forced her to tell me all she knew.
— from The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

I looked in there yesterday and she told me."
— from Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope