But this latter element seems to be always taken into account (though perhaps unconsciously) by Common Sense: for, as we have been led to notice, [345] we do not commonly recognise merit in right actions, if they are such as men are naturally inclined to perform rather too much than too little.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Great difference, indeed, must there be between these kings, when the one takes thankfully such a match; and now it is evident, as might be expected, that no Northman is to be placed by the side of the Upsala kings.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But for the handiwork of some unknown friend or relative this grave, like thousands and thousands of others who fell by the wayside in those strenuous days, would have passed out of sight and mind and nestled in solitude and unknown for all ages to come.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

A man may be kept in prison because he is too poor to get out, but justice is usually summary, and men are not imprisoned for long terms.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

If the commercial intercourse between them is unrestricted, agriculture is destroyed, and with it national strength is undermined in the old state, and manufactures are nipped in the bud in the young ones.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

This is rendered as the reason why at this day both the light of the sun and moon are needless; it is because 'the glory of God did lighten it,' and because 'the Lamb is the light thereof.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

And now I've got money, I must have friends; for when I hadn't, ye know, my friends seemed against me, and now I have, it's the world that does, where'll I hide it?
— from Sandra Belloni — Volume 7 by George Meredith

The State Board of Health shall take cognisance of the interests of the public health as it relates to the sale of food and drugs and the adulteration of the same, and make all necessary investigations and inquiries relating thereto.
— from Food Adulteration and Its Detection With photomicrographic plates and a bibliographical appendix by Jesse P. (Jesse Park) Battershall

To those who puzzled over the fate of the souls of the dead the idea of their re-birth was a very natural solution, and Mr. Alfred Nutt, in his Voyage of Bran , has called attention to the occurrence of this idea in Irish legend.
— from Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by E. (Edward) Anwyl

She smiled and murmured aloud: "No, I would not have had a single thing different.
— from Far-away Stories by William John Locke