The law has, and can have authority; it imposes, and can impose obligation; only because it is an a priori law of the Universe , alike binding upon all moral beings, upon God as well as man; and is so seen immediately, and necessarily, by a direct intuition.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The oligarch changes into the democrat in the following manner:—The youth who has had a miserly bringing up, gets a taste of the drone's honey; he meets with wild companions, who introduce him to every new pleasure.
— from The Republic by Plato

And if one slay another with his own hand, but unintentionally, whether he be unarmed or have some instrument or dart in his hand; or if he kill him by administering food or drink, or by the application of fire or cold, or by suffocating him, whether he do the deed by his own hand, or by the agency of others, he shall be deemed the agent, and shall suffer one of the following penalties: If he kill the slave of another in the belief that he is his own, he shall bear the master of the dead man harmless from loss, or shall pay a penalty of twice the value of the dead man, which the judges shall assess; but purifications must be used greater and more numerous than for those who committed homicide at the games—what they are to be, the interpreters whom the God appoints shall be authorised to declare.
— from Laws by Plato

V. have -influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

That there be an effectual regulation of ecclesiastical courts to remedy the great abuses and inconveniences which by degrees and length of time have crept into them; and particularly that the power of excommunication be taken out of the hands of lay officers and placed in the bishop, and not to be exercised for trivial matters, but upon great and weighty occasions.
— from St. Paul and Protestantism, with an Essay on Puritanism and the Church of England by Matthew Arnold

Freedom, the liberty of law, not license; not indolence, work for himself and children and all men, but under genial and poetic influences;—these were his aims.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

Is. 63:10— “ they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit ” ; Mat. 12:31— “ Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven ” ; Acts 5:3, 4, 9— “ lie to the Holy Ghost ... thou hast not lied unto men but unto God.... agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord ” ; 7:51— “ ye do always resist the Holy Spirit ” ; Eph. 4:30— “ grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

The house was built by the same man, but underwent great alteration in the fashion introduced from France by Charles II., when the rooms were raised and the windows altered into croisées .
— from A Book of Dartmoor Second Edition by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

There was thus a threefold command, Maunoury being under Gallieni, and Gallieni under Joffre.
— from The Battle of the Marne by G. H. (George Herbert) Perris

Freedom, the liberty of law, not license; not indolence, work for himself and children, and all men, but under genial and poetic influences;—these were his aims.
— from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

There was always enough money, but Uncle George and I didn't get along.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

All these means must be used, grotesque as it may sound, to refute the allegation that there is no organization to bring labor to Germany from these countries.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various