In this and most other civilised countries, for example, an engagement by which a person should sell himself, or allow himself to be sold, as a slave, would be null and void; neither enforced by law nor by opinion.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

(3) friendship, But of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none more noble, none more powerful than when good men of congenial character are joined in intimate friendship; for really, if we discover in another that moral goodness on which I dwell so much, it attracts us and makes us friends to the one in whose character it seems to dwell.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Having received large reenforcements from Tennessee, Jackson left a garrison at Fort Strother, and, about the middle of March, descended the Coosa river to the mouth of Cedar creek, southeast from the present Columbiana, where he built Fort Williams.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He, therefore, stands to the lower animals as the navigator who, by means of chart, compass, and quadrant, knows accurately his course and his position at any time upon the sea, stands to the uneducated sailors who see only the waves and the heavens.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

With the assumption, we must of course count; many cases can not be begun without the assistance of assumption.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But they were detected sometimes and punished: that is to say, their goods confiscated and ships also; for if it was true that our manufactures as well as our people were infected, and that it was dangerous to touch or to open and receive the smell of them, then those people ran the hazard by that clandestine trade not only of carrying the contagion into their own country, but also of infecting the nations to whom they traded with those goods; which, considering how many lives might be lost in consequence of such an action, must be a trade that no men of conscience could suffer themselves to be concerned in.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Imagine very full trousers, made of chintz covered with big flowers, such as is used in working-class houses for curtains and covering furniture, trousers which buttoned up just under his armpits.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And the said William Jinkins the Examinant further saith, That whilst Captain Kidd and his Company, lay with the said Ship Quidah Merchant at Mona aforesaid, one Burt , Merchant of Curaso , came to them in a Brigantine, and purchased several Goods of the said Captain Kidd ; for which he paid Part in money, and Part in Flour.
— from The Real Captain Kidd: A Vindication by Cornelius Neale Dalton

A truly amazing insight has been gained into the space relations of the molecules of carbon compounds in particular, and other compounds are under investigation.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

Where men like Mr O' Connell can arise, it is clear that the social condition of Ireland is not healthy; that, as a country, she is not fused into a common substance with the rest of the empire; that she is not fully to be trusted; and that the road to a more effectual union lies, not through stricter coercion, but through a system of instant defence making itself apparent to the people as a means of provisional or potential coercion in the proper case arising.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

With this professional intention, he engaged private apartments in Bradford, and took up his residence as a portrait-painter, under the interest of his mother's relative, the Rev. William Morgan, of Christ Church.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 1 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

They were intercepted by a party under General Butler, and a severe skirmish ensued at Lindley's Mill, on Cane Creek.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The Mollusca proper were divided by Cuvier into five great classes:— I. Lamellibranchiata, or Acephalous Mollusca, often called Conchifera. II.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

‘But you know, you’re so—well—you do expect a little difference in appearance, or manner——’ ‘Or complexion?’ continued his fair tormentor.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

But when he rises, lo! an Eden smiles, Green leafy slopes, meadows of chamomiles, Claspt in a silvery river’s winding maze: ‘Water, water!
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

"In the first place," said Ganimard, "I will ask Monsieur Charles to be very particular on one point: He says that, on the occasion of his first visit to the room, various articles of furniture were overturned and strewn about the place; now, I ask him whether, on his second visit to the room, he found all those articles restored to their accustomed places—I mean, of course, correctly placed."
— from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc