For all these words, Hee That In His Actions Observeth The Lawes Of His Country, make but one Name, equivalent to this one word, Just.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

On my side, I returned to my beehive chair, and set myself down on the sunny side of the court, and fell (if the truth must be owned), not exactly into a sleep, but into the next best thing to it.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Whatever power, other than ourselves, holds the country east of the Mississippi, becomes our natural enemy.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

We lived honestly and comfortably, making no little money by our natural endowments, and were known over a great part of England as ‘Hopping Ned,’ ‘Biting Giles,’ and ‘Hull over the Head Jack,’ which was my name, it being the blackguard fashion of the English, do you see, to—”
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

The Bremisches Magazin , 21 which was employed largely in publishing translations from English periodicals, and contained in each number lists, generally much belated, of new English books, noted in the third number for 1762, among the new books from April to December, 1760, Mr. Yorick’s Sermons, published by Mr. Sterne, and then, as customary in these catalogues, translated the title into “Herrn Yorick’s Predigten ans Licht gestellt von Hn.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

The founder, Auguste Comte, was a teacher of mathematics, but of no eminence in that department of knowledge, and with nothing but an amateur's acquaintance with physical, chemical, and biological science.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

This was done out of jealousy and hatred towards the governor, and in order to hinder his exploration and discovery of the country, so that his service to the king might be of no effect.
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century

Died 25th March, 1609; that is the precise date;—about a month before our new Elector, Johann Sigismund, got his affairs winded up at the Polish Court, and came galloping home in such haste.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

I crossed the mountain in two places, distant from each other one hundred miles, but observed nothing essentially different in their mineralogy.
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various

And if there must be one national ecclesiastical head under one king, why not one also in one empire?
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

Whatever power, other than ourselves, holds the country east of the Mississippi becomes our natural enemy.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson