If the rulers of these nations propose to abolish the independence of the press, the people would be justified in saying: Give us the right of prosecuting your offences before the ordinary tribunals, and perhaps we may then waive our right of appeal to the tribunal of public opinion.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Perhaps you may remember, or perhaps you may forget, that Charles Street leads from the Queen Square Chapel to the two Green Park Streets.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Primero las hojas se ponen castañas, amarillas, rojas o purpúreas y después caen al suelo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

And who are you that prate of Constitutional Formulas, rights of Parliament? You have had to kill your King, to make Pride's Purges, to expel and banish by the law of the stronger whosoever would not let your Cause prosper: there are but fifty or threescore of you left there, debating in these days.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

On my replying 'Not yet,' he added, 'If you do not learn the rules of Propriety, your character cannot be established.'
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

We have seen that the sterility of hybrids which have their reproductive organs in an imperfect condition, is a different case from the difficulty of uniting two pure species, which have their reproductive organs perfect; yet these two distinct classes of cases run to a large extent parallel.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

" CHAPTER XL WORK AND WAIT What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.—H. P. LIDDON.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The return of King Richard he spoke of as an event altogether beyond the reach of probability; yet, when he observed, from the doubtful looks and uncertain answers which he received, that this was the apprehension by which the minds of his accomplices were most haunted, he boldly treated that event, should it really take place, as one which ought not to alter their political calculations.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“Holy Father,” said Hippolita, “it is your office to be no respecter of persons: you must speak as your duty prescribes: but it is my duty to hear nothing that it pleases not my Lord
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

You refuse, or perhaps you're afraid, I don't know, to go to the source of everything—this table, this chair, this gown, your own flesh.
— from Circle of Flight by Richard Stockham

They are designed to promote two objects: the support of destitute aged females of color, and the rescue of poor young colored females from vice.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

No one of us has ever given up so much as Tom, and I am sure he will be happy in it.' More can hardly be said without straying into the realms of prediction; yet such of our readers as are bent on carrying on their knowledge of the Daisies beyond the last sentence, may be told that, to the best of our belief, Leonard's shoemaking is not his foremost office in the mission, where he finds that fulness of hopeful gladness which experience shows is literally often vouchsafed to those who have given up home, land, and friends, for the Gospel's sake.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Foreign travel and prosperity set well upon him, and one could scarcely have found a more refined or polished young man than Harold as he moved about the premises, every inch a gentleman and every inch the master, with a bright smile and pleasant word for everyone, whether of high or low degree.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

My contention is that there is no one within my knowledge, who commands respect enough and is capable of taking over the responsibilities of President Yuan.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Having first learned a few definitions, and the principal circles into which, for convenience, the sphere is divided, and receiving the great laws of astronomy on the authority of the eminent persons who have investigated them, you will find few hard terms, or technical distinctions, to repel or perplex you; and you will, I hope, find that nothing but an intelligent mind and fixed attention are requisite for perusing the Letters which I propose to address to you.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

The stem is thick and succulent, and bears a long raceme of pendulous yellow-green flowers on short stalks.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

“Oh, of course,” responded Mr. Blaisdell, readily, “I understand that; indeed, I was going to remark that you have already accomplished so much work, and your methods seem to be so exact and, at the same time, expeditious, that we will consider your term of probation here at an end; we agreed to raise your salary at the end of the month, if your services were satisfactory; they are eminently so, and I will take the responsibility of paying you one hundred and twenty-five dollars for this first month also.
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour