Such a violation of the rights of neutrals can only be undertaken by a nation that feels it has nothing to fear from their rising against it.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In this manner, therefore, if you accustom yourself to contemplate the relations of neighbor, citizen, commander, you can deduce from each the corresponding duties.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

One row of nine columns stands almost uninjured.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

↑ 434 Personal Information from Colonel W. H. Thomas, Lieutenant-Colonel W. W. Stringfield, Captain James W. Terrell, Chief N. J. Smith (first sergeant Company B), and others, with other details from Moore’s (Confederate) Roster of North Carolina Troops, IV ; Raleigh, 1882; also list of survivors in 1890, by Carrington, in Eastern Band of Cherokees, Extra Bulletin of Eleventh Census, p. 21, 1892.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“The sensation of red is the normal reaction of normally constructed eyes to light reflected from cinnabar.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Under the conditions of this struggle, racial or national consciousness as it manifests itself, for example, in Irish nationalism, Jewish Zionism, and Negro race consciousness, is the natural and obvious response to a conflict situation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Very few of the wooden roofs of Norman churches remain.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

He commanded the several orders of the people to bring in a fixed proportion of their estates, as they stood in the censor’s books; all tenants of houses and mansions to pay one year’s rent forthwith into the exchequer; and, with unheard-of strictness, would receive only new coin of the purest silver and the finest gold; insomuch that most people refused to pay, crying out unanimously that he ought to squeeze the informers, and oblige them to surrender their gains.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I had not the heart to respond otherwise, nor could the bare truth, as I understood it, have served any other end than to deprive her of her senses.
— from A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell

"I took rooms out near Cambridge.
— from A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

In the earlier stages, it seems pretty clear that the relations of nascent Christianity to Judaism were vague and undefined: the Christians regarded themselves as a mere sect of the Jews, who paid special reverence to a particular dead teacher, now raised to heaven by a special apotheosis of a kind with which everyone was then familiar.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

It is to be noted, however, that this is simply the result of natural causes.
— from Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker

The disclosure of their real objects naturally caused irritation in England as well as in Italy, but all hostile criticism was met by the assertion of the Liberal Government that Lord Salisbury had himself invited the French to take Tunis at the time of the Berlin Congress.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

NA% Government Nauru Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Nauru conventional short form:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Do not its miracles remain what they were, even though they may be the result of natural causes?
— from Four Phases of Love by Paul Heyse

[116] As to shelter, since the climate and economy of Pennsylvania never gave rise to a plantation life, rows of negro cabins and quarters for the hands never became a distinctive feature.
— from Slavery in Pennsylvania A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910 by Edward Raymond Turner

[411] declared that they would not, for all the riches of Naples, change places with either Piedro or his father.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth