Whatever safety they now enjoy, those countries of No-Nation, from the unbridled license of forge and hammer and turn-screw, results from the mutual jealousy of the powers.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

Thou shalt not ease the Criticks of next age So much, at once their hunger to asswage: 65 Nor shall wit-pirats hope to finde thee lye All in one bottome, in one Librarie.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

For, such is the essential vice of this royal succession by animal filiation, the peoples have not even the chances of nature,—they cannot even hope for a good prince as an alternative.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

6 s. net each The Cathedrals of Norway, Sweden and Denmark By T. Francis Bumpus (9×6½. 16 s. net )
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

We called at a Sikh guard-house, and the magnificent sergeant took me to see his wife, the woman of the regiment, who is so rigidly secluded that not even the commanding officer nor Mr. Maxwell have seen her.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Anisya could not maintain her cruelty were she not continually urged on by Matrónya; she has not even the consolation of Nikíta's support, for Matrónya will not permit him to be told; again with grim tragic irony she declares that he is so kind-hearted that he could not kill a chicken.
— from Tolstoy by Lilian Winstanley

The Roman Catholic wife, unaccompanied by her Protestant husband, who waited at the door with his retinue, now entered the church of Notre Dame to participate in the solemnities of the mass.
— from Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

6 s. net each The Cathedrals of Northern France By T. Francis Bumpus 6 s. net The Cathedrals of Northern Germany and the Rhine By T. Francis Bumpus 6 s. net The Cathedrals of Northern Spain By Charles Rudy 6 s. net The Cathedrals and Churches of Northern Italy By T. Francis Bumpus (9×6½. 16 s. net )
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

I believe in the scheme, in the Project of all things, in the significance of myself and all life, and that my defects and uglinesses and failures, just as much as my powers and successes, are things that are necessary and important and contributory in that scheme, that scheme which passes my understanding—and that no thwarting of my conception, not even the cruelty of nature, now defeats or can defeat my faith, however much it perplexes my mind.
— from First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

No white men lived in New England; the city of New York had not even been thought of; Baltimore and Savannah were impassable forests; and the great West was only a hunting ground.
— from American Inventions and Inventors by William A. (William Augustus) Mowry