H2 anchor Errors From Misinterpreting The Scriptures, Concerning The Kingdome Of God The greatest, and main abuse of Scripture, and to which almost all the rest are either consequent, or subservient, is the wresting of it, to prove that the Kingdome of God, mentioned so often in the Scripture, is the present Church, or multitude of Christian men now living, or that being dead, are to rise again at the last day: whereas the Kingdome of God was first instituted by the Ministery of Moses, over the Jews onely; who were therefore called his Peculiar People; and ceased afterward, in the election of Saul, when they refused to be governed by God any more, and demanded a King after the manner of the nations; which God himself consented unto, as I have more at large proved before, in the 35.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He appointed Marcus Aemilius Lepidus President of the Senate, who four times already had enjoyed that dignity, and he expelled three senators, not men of mark.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Especially our former acquaintance, Miss Ginevra Fanshawe,—who had been selected to take a prominent part in the play—used, in bestowing upon me a large portion of her leisure, to lard her discourse with frequent allusions to his sayings and doings.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I would make a little provision for this one, for it is an understood thing in our social set that a woman's love should be paid for, in money if she is poor, in presents if she is rich.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In marrying a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, "To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

He who is thinking of making a lying promise to others will see at once that he would be using another man merely as a mean, without the latter containing at the same time the end in himself.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Miatbug ang lángaw pag-itsa nákù sa basúra, The flies rose in a swarm when I threw out the garbage.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This tone consisted chiefly in making the proper distinction between the laws of the production of wealth, which are real laws of Nature, dependent on the properties of objects, and the modes of its distribution, which, subject to certain conditions, depend on human will.... I had indeed partially learnt this view of things from the thoughts awakened in me by the speculations of St. Simonians ; but it was made a living principle, pervading and animating the book, by my wife's promptings."
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

That dreamy gliding in the boat which had lasted for four hours, and had brought some weariness and exhaustion; the recoil of her fatigued sensations from the impracticable difficulty of getting out of the boat at this unknown distance from home, and walking for long miles,–all helped to bring her into more complete subjection to that strong, mysterious charm which made a last parting from Stephen seem the death of all joy, and made the thought of wounding him like the first touch of the torturing iron before which resolution shrank.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Now I am at a losse to know whether it be my hare’s foot which is my preservative against wind, for I never had a fit of the collique since I wore it, and nothing but wind brings me pain, and the carrying away of wind takes away my pain, or my keeping my back cool; for when I do lie longer than ordinary upon my back in bed, my water the next morning is very hot, or whether it be my taking of a pill of turpentine every morning, which keeps me always loose, or all together, but this I know, with thanks to God Almighty, that I am now as well as ever I can wish or desire to be, having now and then little grudgings of wind, that brings me a little pain, but it is over presently, only I do find that my backe grows very weak, that I cannot stoop to write or tell money without sitting
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

How comes it that he exhibits in the case of the more difficult operation all the phenomena which ordinarily accompany a more complete mastery and longer practice?
— from Life and Habit by Samuel Butler

It is not by any means a large place.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

When Pope obtained his correspondence, he, according to his own statement, burned a great many and laid past the others, after having had a copy of them taken, and deposited in Lord Oxford's library.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

And then came the farmer, a good-like sort of man, grave, and well-behaved; and spoke to me in such sort, as made me a little pacified; and seeing no help for it, I went in; and the wife immediately conducted me up stairs to the best apartment, and told me, that was mine as long as I staid: and nobody should come near me but when I called.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Tho' all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Britons in blown seas and storming showers, We have a voice with which to pay the debt Of boundless love and reverence and regret To those great men who fought and kept it ours."
— from Baden-Powell of Mafeking by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Now I am going to be a pattern man as landlord, peer, and sportsman.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

They addressed the English general in these words: "Men are like pieces of clay, which are broken to pieces one against another.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03 by Voltaire

Louise Denton, New York, N.Y. Miss Ella Sampson, Wareham, Mass. Miss Caledonia Phillips, Cannonsburg, Pa. Miss Annie Levering, Philadelphia Pa. NEW ORLEANS, (CENTRAL CHURCH).
— from The American Missionary — Volume 45, No. 02, February, 1891 by Various

As they talked to me and gave me a little poteen and a little bread when they thought I was hungry, I could not help feeling that I was talking with men who were under a judgment of death.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge