The most important of them are: his exclusive right to make propositions to the diet; to negative its resolutions; to name ambassadors; to confer dignities and titles; to fill vacant electorates; to found universities; to grant privileges not injurious to the states of the empire; to receive and apply the public revenues; and generally to watch over the public safety.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Aristocratic countries abound in wealthy and influential persons who are competent to provide for themselves, and who cannot be easily or secretly oppressed: such persons restrain a government within general habits of moderation and reserve.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern .
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is with the inhabitants of this angle, as ‘tis said of those of the Val d’Angrougne; they lived a peculiar sort of life, their fashions, clothes, and manners distinct from other people; ruled and governed by certain particular laws and usages, received from father to son, to which they submitted, without other constraint than the reverence to custom.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He condescended to pardon the emperor, the eunuch, and the interpreter; bound himself by an oath to observe the conditions of peace; released a great number of captives; abandoned the fugitives and deserters to their fate; and resigned a large territory, to the south of the Danube, which he had already exhausted of its wealth and inhabitants.
— 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

And there were honey, curd, and oil, Parched rice and grass, the garden's spoil, Fresh milk, eight girls in bright attire, An elephant with eyes of fire; And urns of gold and silver made, With milky branches overlaid, All brimming from each sacred flood, And decked with many a lotus bud.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

p. 191 Dear bride of Nature and most bounteous spring, That canst give increase to the sweet-breath’d kine, And to the kid its little horns, and bring The soft and silky blossoms to the vine, Where is that old nepenthe which of yore Man got from poppy root and glossy-berried mandragore!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

[He moves towards the door; the men cluster together stupefied; then ROUS, throwing up his head, passes ROBERTS and goes out.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Student and labor unrest during the 1990s pressured King MSWATI III, the world's last absolute monarch, to grudgingly allow political reform and greater democracy, although he has backslid on these promises in recent years.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

If during the preceding twelve years a navy relatively as strong as that which this country now has had been built up, and an army provided relatively as good as that which the country now has, there never would have been the slightest necessity of fighting the war; and if the necessity had arisen the war would under such circumstances have ended with our speedy and overwhelming triumph.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The fishermen told Pericles the name of their country was Pentapolis, and that their king was Simonides, commonly called the good Simonides, because of his peaceable reign and good government.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

She had not forgotten his previous restraint and gravity, but now his face seemed to have relaxed with some humorous satisfaction.
— from A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte

It was a pukka road, a Grand Trunk Road suspended in the air across a river well-nigh great as Father Nile himself.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

One rainy afternoon we spent in the Museo over the Gateway of Santa María, and there, step by step, traced Spain's art history,—statues from the former Roman city of Clunia in this province, a remarkable enameled altar-front of the Byzantine period, Romanesque and Gothic relics from the monasteries out on the plains, a Moorish arch found in situ , and tombs of that transition time from Gothic to Renaissance which in Spain was so flourishing a phase of art.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

The necessary preparations required a good deal of time, and the date of the birthday had to be overstepped.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner