Kings may say things sometimes, and they may take a fancy to one man and dislike another, but Ulysses never did an unjust thing by anybody—which shows what bad hearts you have, and that there is no such thing as gratitude left in this world.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

When golden angels cease to cure the evil, You give all royal witchcraft to the devil; When servile chaplains cry, that birth and place Endure a peer with honour, truth, and grace, Look in that breast, most dirty D----!
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

The herb steeped in wine, and the wine drank, refreshes such as be over-weary with traveling, and grow lame in their joints, either by cold or evil lodgings; it helps stitches, and griping pains in the sides; is an excellent remedy for such as are bruised by falls; it provokes urine and the terms exceedingly, therefore let it not be given to women with child: The same is very profitable for such as are troubled with cramps and convulsions, to drink the decoction: Also they say it breaks the stone, and helps ruptures most certainly: it is excellent in all cold diseases, and such as are troubled with tough phlegm, scabs, itch, or any fretting sores and ulcers; it is an admirable remedy to kill the worms, by taking half a dram of the powder in a morning in any convenient liquor; the same is excellently good to be taken inwardly for the king’s evil.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The rebels hit first, killing the Imperial General Wang Sun, and in the excitement the animals got loose in the Imperial army where they panicked the men.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

From these views, it will appear that a Grand Lodge is the supreme legislative, judicial, and executive authority of the Masonic jurisdiction in which it is situated.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Well, only fancy, [pg 257] perhaps I too accept God,” laughed Ivan; “that's a surprise for you, isn't it?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Though the profits of stock, both in the wholesale and retail trade, are generally less in the capital than in small towns and country villages, yet great fortunes are frequently acquired from small beginnings in the former, and scarce ever in the latter.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The true distinction between these and the American governments, lies IN THE TOTAL EXCLUSION OF THE PEOPLE, IN THEIR COLLECTIVE CAPACITY, from any share in the LATTER, and not in the TOTAL EXCLUSION OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE from the administration of the FORMER.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

We pulled off the packs and let the animals go loose in the feed, which was very good, while we were soon stretched out and sound asleep.
— from In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 by Gilbert L. Cole

He approached cautiously at first in order that he might take a good look into the camp, and he was surprised at what he saw.
— from The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

It was a tribute to MacLeod's work that he was appointed also to aid Governor Laird in the delicate work of making the treaty with the most difficult tribes in the North-West to handle.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

By the comparison of seedlings of different known ages, it was evident that the chief seat of growth of the petiole was in the upper part between the pulvinus and the blade; and this agrees with the fact (shown in the measurements above given) that the cells grow to a greater length in the upper than in the lower part.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

But he pursued his way indifferent, and came next to a grove luxuriant, in the heart of the vale at the point where it would be most attractive to the observing eye.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Sexual selection has been treated at great length in this work; for, as I have attempted to shew, it has played an important part in the history of the organic world.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

In the same review we find him saying, after a slight discussion of the style of Scaldic poetry, "The other translations are generally less interesting than those from the Icelandic.
— from Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball