Plato says that they of the city of Sais have records in writing of eight thousand years; and that the city of Athens was built a thousand years before the said city of Sais; Epicurus, that at the same time things are here in the posture we see, they are alike and in the same manner in several other worlds; which he would have delivered with greater assurance, had he seen the similitude and concordance of the new discovered world of the West Indies with ours, present and past, in so many strange examples.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And certainly Hervey would not dare to proceed against Perris if she made such a confession.
— from Alcatraz by Max Brand

This made him dangerous, and all the other "straggling settlements," though, like Morton's, of the church of England, united with the people at Plymouth in suppressing Morton's settlement.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Responsibility of the Republican Party — Its Power and Position — Initiatory Step — Mr. Stevens speaks for himself — Condition of the Rebel States — Constitutional Authority under which Congress should act — Estoppel —
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Responsibility of the Republican Party — Its Power and Position — Initiatory Step — Mr. Stevens steaks for Himself — Condition of the Rebel States — Constitutional Authority under which Congress should act — Estoppel — What constitutes Congress — The First Duty — Basis of Representation — Duty on Exports — Two important Principles — Mr. Raymond's Theory — Rebel States still in the Union — Consequences of the Radical Theory — Conditions to be Required — State Sovereignty — Rebel Debt — Prohibition of Slavery — Two Policies contrasted — Reply of Mr. Jenckes — Difference in Terms, not in Substance — Logic of the Conservatives leads to the Results of the Radicals.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

If in providing for the common defence, the United States' government, in the case supposed, would have power to destroy slaves both as property and persons , it surely might stop half-way , destroy them as property while it legalized their existence as persons , and thus provided for the common defence by giving them a personal and powerful interest in the government, and securing their strength for its defence.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

[Pg 215] The bad oppresses me, the worse dismays, To which so broad and plain a path I see; My spirit, to like frenzy led with thee, Tried by the same hard thoughts, in dotage strays, Nor knows if peace or war of God it prays, Though great the loss and deep the shame to me.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

If in providing for the common defence the United States government, in the case supposed, would have power to destroy slaves both as property and persons , it surely might stop half-way, destroy them as property while it legalized their existence as persons , and thus provided for the common defence by giving them a personal and powerful interest in the government, and securing their strength for its defence.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society