But its acceptance, even for a time strictly limited, can only be excused, if, like Solon or Pittacus, the dictator employs the whole power he assumes in removing the obstacles which debar the nation from the enjoyment of freedom.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

For, when a man with a wooden leg lies prone on his stomach to peep under bedsteads; and hops up ladders, like some extinct bird, to survey the tops of presses and cupboards; and provides himself an iron rod which he is always poking and prodding into dust-mounds; the probability is that he expects to find something.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Hence, while rank and riches may always reckon upon deferential treatment in society, that is something which intellectual ability can never expect; to be ignored is the greatest favor shown to it; and if people notice it at all, it is because they regard it as a piece of impertinence, or else as something to which its possessor has no legitimate right, and upon which he dares to pride himself; and in retaliation and revenge for his conduct, people secretly try and humiliate him in some other way; and if they wait to do this, it is only for a fitting opportunity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

I assume this position here as it respects the first, reserving the proofs for another place.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

From this solution of the antinomy of practical pure reason, it follows that in practical principles we may at least conceive as possible a natural and necessary connection between the consciousness of morality and the expectation of a proportionate happiness as its result, though it does not follow that we can know or perceive this connection; that, on the other hand, principles of the pursuit of happiness cannot possibly produce morality; that, therefore, morality is the supreme good (as the first condition of the summum bonum), while happiness constitutes its second element, but only in such a way that it is the morally conditioned, but necessary consequence of the former.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

I called again next day early in the morning, received the same answer, and was desired to leave my name and business: I did so, and returned the day after, when the servant still affirmed that his master was gone abroad; though I perceived him, as I retired, observing me through a window.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I had a dream of something black coming round my bed, and I awoke in a perfect horror, and I really thought, for some seconds, I saw a dark figure near the chimneypiece, but I felt under my pillow for my charm, and the moment my fingers touched it, the figure disappeared, and I felt quite certain, only that I had it by me, that something frightful would have made its appearance, and, perhaps, throttled me, as it did those poor people we heard of.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

On, then, my lord Don Quixote, beautiful and brave, let your worship and highness set out to-day rather than to-morrow; and if anything be needed for the execution of your purpose, here am I ready in person and purse to supply the want; and were it requisite to attend your magnificence as squire, I should esteem it the happiest good fortune."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

We spent two very pleasant hours, and I returned to my room accompanied by the Castilian.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The members and guests of the club wandered hither and thither, sat, stood, met, and separated, some in uniform and some in evening dress, and a few here and there with powdered hair and in Russian kaftáns .
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Four seamen were seized, and borne away in triumph; but the British commander refused to receive the ship as a prize, and even went so far as to express his regret at the loss of life, and proffer his aid in repairing the damages.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

The vast palace, had all its rooms been thrown open, might perhaps have accommodated twice as many more.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various

To a great extent land as a national possession has an ideal rather than a practical value.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge

Posthumus : “ I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone. ”
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

His biographers, Montagu and Spedding, have padded his angularities into roundness; while [251] Pope and Macaulay have lashed him in the grave.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

“You’ve no spoons,” she said, sharply; and then making a dive through her thin, shabby dress, she searched for some time for a pocket-hole, and then plunging her arm in right to the shoulder, she brought out a packet tied in a bit of calico.
— from The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

[572] The phrase has an ironical ring well suited to the character of him who called it forth.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

That is to say, the nominative form is used when the pronoun is separated from its governing verb, whether by a noun, a noun-phrase or another pronoun, as in "she gave it to mother and I ," "she took all of we children" and "he paid her and I " respectively.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

[Q] Observations on the number of seeds produced and the surety of fertilization may be of especial interest, when the wonderful distribution which this plant has attained in recent years is taken into consideration.
— from The Kansas University Science Bulletin (Vol. I, No. 1) by Various