Of this disease the forms are as various as the situations are, for as certainly as it may reasonably be supposed that the plastic lymph, effused in an inflamed state of the urethra from any cause, does not give rise to stricture of any special or particular form, exclusive of all others; so as certainly may it be inferred that, in a structurally uniform canal, inflammation points to no one particular place of it, whereat by preference to establish the organic stricture.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Canonizing Of Saints The Name Of Pontifex Procession Of Images Wax Candles, And Torches Lighted CHAPTER XLVI.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Human nature is not something existing separately in the individual, but a group nature or primary phase of society , a relatively simple and general condition of the social mind.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

While this is true, it would be a mistake to draw the inference that status is a peculiarly natural or primitive principle of organization and competition a comparatively recent discovery.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Shall it be with the majority, or the wealthy, with a number of proper persons, or one better than the rest, or with a tyrant?
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

For some time after the conclusion of the late war, not only private people of the best credit, but some of the greatest companies in London, commonly borrowed at five per cent.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

48 If we may judge by his name, Papias was a native of Phrygia, probably of Hierapolis [160] , of which he afterwards became bishop, and must have grown up to youth or early manhood before the close of the first century.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The number of Persian poems on the subject may be seen in M. von Hammer's preface to his poem of Schirin.—M] Note 105 ( return )
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As the area of the valve was 5 square inches, the number of pounds shown on the spring balance denoted the number of pounds pressure on each square inch of the boiler.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

To be short, he had no sooner begun to dig among the rubbis, but he found an excéeding number of pillers, péeces of antike worke, thresholds, doore frames, and sundrie other péeces of fine masonrie for windowes and such like, verie conuenient for his purpose.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

His gifts answer our need, and over-answer it, for He is 'able to do exceeding abundantly above that which we ask or think,' and neither our conceptions, nor our petitions, nor our present powers of receiving, are the real limits of the illimitable grace that is laid up for us in Christ, and which, potentially, we have each of us in our hands whenever we lay our hands on Him.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

At thirty-seven he was freed by his owner; when he moved from his village to Troitsa, took the name of Philip, put on cowl and gown, and dug for himself a vault in the earth.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

Rev. W. R. Johnson, missionary located at Indian Wells, Arizona, has repeatedly urged in public addresses at Lake Mohonk and elsewhere the need of proper protection of this, the finest body of aboriginal men and women remaining in North America.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

Stories are current of the number of persons "put out of the way" before he attained his present rank for the second time, and it is not "Bakhtiari custom" to be over-scrupulous about human life.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

There was nothing of professional piety or of the professional reader about Hendrick.
— from A Child of the Glens; or, Elsie's Fortunes by Edward N. Hoare

They are strictly in the nature of private property of the nation, and as such, unless exempted by the foregoing prohibition, would clearly be within the scope of local taxation, liable, like the lands of other proprietors, to all customary burdens and incidents.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It is presumed that a general exemplification of the principle laid down in the text, would not only prevent penitent offenders from relapsing into crime, but would fully confirm them in habits of virtue.
— from Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John, of Vermont