The result of his patient and thorough study is stated in these propositions: 'That no civil power resides in any department of the Government to interfere with the fundamental, personal rights of life, liberty, and property, guaranteed by the Constitution; that a warlike power is given by the Constitution to the President temporarily to disregard these rights by means of the martial law; that under the sanction of this species of law, the President and his subordinate military officers may, within reasonable limits, suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus , cause arrests to be made, trials and condemnations to be had, and punishments to be inflicted, in methods unknown to the civil procedure, but are responsible for an abuse of the power; and that the martial law, as a necessary adjunct of military movements, may be enforced in time of invasion or rebellion, wherever the influence and effect of these movements directly extends.'
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Hogarth, who died a few years after the beginning of the reign, was celebrated for the coarse but perfect representations of low life and street scenes; and his series of Election pictures with his "Beer Lane" and "Gin Alley" are valuable for the insight into the history of the times.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

He positively reeks of low life, and pollutes the atmosphere as he staggers through the streets.
— from New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future by Corbett, George, Mrs.

Arrived at the foot of the staircase, the old man, succeeded, without his guide's knowledge, in slightly displacing the thick bandage so as to admit a partial ray of lamp light.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

It is for the objector to show them spurious; for on him, by the plainest rules of law, lies the burden of proof.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

In the latter form it is the hardest of all minerals, a powerful refractor of light, lustrous, and transparent.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

In love with age, He Spartanizes, argues, fasts and frowns, Denies the plainest rules of life, long since Proved sound; sets all authority aside, Must simply recommence things, learn ere act, And think out thoroughly how youth should pass— Just as if youth stops passing, all the same!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The proposed reorganization of labor, like the proposed system of institutional reform, and like the proposed constructive regulation of large industrial corporations, simply takes advantage of those tendencies in our current methods which look in a formative direction; and in so far as these several tendencies prevail, they will severally supplement and strengthen one another.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

He had always taken his friends for granted, as part of the pleasant routine of life, like one's breakfast or one's bath; but now, seeing them anew, through Karen's eyes, he was inclined more and more to believe that they weren't as dull as she found them.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick