This is more obsolete English than slang, though its use nowadays might fairly bring it within the latter category.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

What, for instance, would avail restrictions on the authority of the State legislatures, without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Physically they were more alike than we, as they lacked all morbid or excessive types.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My other experience that I have not written about is seeing Judo.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Such are the most important facts in regard to the legions and the method of encamping them....
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

My lady resolving to set out the next morning to return to her lord, my master ordered every thing to be made ready for his doing the like to Bedfordshire; and this evening our good neighbours will sup with us, to take leave of my lady and us.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I teach that there are higher and lower men, and that a single individual may under certain circumstances justify whole millenniums of existence —that is to say, a wealthier, more gifted, greater, and more complete man, as compared with innumerable imperfect and fragmentary men.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The American people need to continue to show the very qualities that they have shown--that is, moderation, good sense, the earnest desire to avoid doing any damage, and yet the quiet determination to proceed, step by step, without halt and without hurry, in eliminating or at least in minimizing whatever of mischief or evil there is to interstate commerce in the conduct of great corporations.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The coarse, rude methods of early times have given place to vastly improved ways of “conveying” a neighbour’s goods.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

Among his battle-pieces which have never been equalled are Ye Mariners of England , The Battle of the Baltic , and Lochiel's Warning .
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

I have often been amused at their manner of explaining the principles of their art to their pupils, who profit so little by their instructions, that they are as wise at the end of their quarter as when they began.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

There are, however, many other ends to which this species of superstition is employed, one being the detection of guilt.
— from Domestic folk-lore by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer