solemnly declare, that as first president in the kingdom, I never was consulted in regard to the making of this law, that is about to consign your aged servant to the lions.
— from The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon by Erasmus W. Jones

Perfection in the kind is necessary.
— from A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus

a promise extorted too under fear of my life, of immediate peril of being talked to death—see Vatel on extorted promises—void: third promise to my angel, Dora, to live wherever she pleases; but that’s a lover’s promise, made to be broken—see Love’s Calendar, or, if you prefer the bookmen’s authority, I don’t doubt that, under the head of promises made when a man is not in his right senses, some of those learned fellows in wigs would bring me off sain et sauf : but now for my fourth promise—I am a man of honour—when I make a promise intending to keep it, no man so scrupulous; all promises made to myself come under this head; and I have promised myself to live, and make my wife live, wherever I please, or not to live with her at all.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

Drinking and duelling are two charges which have long been alleged against the gentlemen of Ireland, but the change of manners which has taken place in that kingdom is not generally known in England.
— from A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779 by Arthur Young

Even the prosaic regulations and "orders of the day," which are placed in the Koran , if not the reproduction, in cataleptic visions, of his previous thoughts, may have been regarded by him as having a divine sanction.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Noo, your prayer in the kirk is no' inspired.
— from St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

Every parish parson in the kingdom is no doubt an incumbent, but in ordinary parlance we hardly apply the name to the country rector or to the vicar blessed with a pleasant parsonage.
— from Clergymen of the Church of England by Anthony Trollope

The highest personage in the kingdom is not exempt from expressions of public censure or public applause; and when a nobleman in the House of Peers, or a gentleman in the House of Commons, rises and expresses his sentiments on any question of policy, the public takes the liberty to express, and sometimes very loudly and rudely, an opinion of the merits or demerits of such speech.”
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill