The tragic murder of Naboth (see JEZEBEL), an act of royal encroachment, stirred up popular resentment just as the new cult aroused the opposition of certain of the prophets.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

But suppose a kind of social tabula rasa , every social unit perfectly equal, an increase of population everywhere in the same ratio, and give the same amount of land to each family; it would not be long before you would again have all the existing inequalities of fortune; it is glaringly evident, therefore, that there are such things as superiority of fortune, of thinking capacity, and of power, and we must make up our minds to this fact; but the masses will always regard rights that have been most honestly acquired as privileges, and as a wrong done to themselves.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

They are not remarkable, except as showing that with her religious enthusiasm she united practical sense, which gave her doubtless a power over the people with whom she came in contact, mostly plain farmers and laborers.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Two young physicians performed the air in these words:— “Recipe, recipe, recipe, recipe senne, Dragmas duas, dragmas duas, dragmas duas, Semi-dragmum rhei electac, Scrupulum unum polychresti, Infundantur, percolentur, hauriantur, Horâ sextâ matutinâ, Recipe, recipe, recipe, etc.”
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo