The daughter of Roger the Great, king of Sicily, was married to the Emperor Manuel of Constantinople; and their son was the Emperor Kirjalax.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

For example, if the Soveraign employ a Publique Minister, without written Instructions what to doe; he is obliged to take for Instructions the Dictates of Reason; As if he make a Judge, The Judge is to take notice, that his Sentence ought to be according to the reason of his Soveraign, which being alwaies understood to be Equity, he is bound to it by the Law of Nature:
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Such havock, howling all abroad, Their utter ruin bring, The base apostates to their God, Or rebels to their King. H2 anchor On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston, Late Lord President of the Court of Session.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

When any of these passions are calm, and cause no disorder in the soul, they are very readily taken for the determinations of reason, and are supposed to proceed from the same faculty, with that, which judges of truth and falshood.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, 15 in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong; the first of these will comprehend the duties of religion; the second, those of morality.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Tartars are an ugly and even deformed race; and while they consider their own women as the instruments of domestic labor, their desires, or rather their appetites, are directed to the enjoyment of more elegant beauty.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[829] III Up to the present we have studied the doctrine of reincarnation only in the tribes of Central Australia; therefore the bases upon which our inference rests may be deemed too narrow.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

For ‘tis marvellous how little will satisfy nature, how little she has left us to desire; our ragouts and kickshaws are not of her ordering.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The next definite reference is in 1389; when the Duke of Rothesay was appointed regent for Robert III (cf.
— from The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns by Robert S. (Robert Sangster) Rait

We must have this marriage concluded speedily, betwixt the Duke of Rothsay and my niece Anne.
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

So when the Lady Cavaliere whispered from under her beaded veil, "Don't speak of it, but I am tired to death of reformers," it was only the artist's impatience of the ploughman; it was Rupert and his men not only sneering at Praise God Bare-bones, and singing their mock prayer in the Lenten litany, "That it may please thee to suppose Our actions are as good as those That gull the people through the nose," but heartily believing Cromwell and his men to be canting hypocrites.
— from From the Easy Chair, Volume 1 by George William Curtis

You see, he is so kind and thoughtful, so brave, so masterful, so—so handsome, with just that dash of recklessness which makes him so fascinating to a girl.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

Men were discharged from hospitals, ordered to a certain point to rejoin their commands, only to discover on reaching there that the outfit had seemingly vanished in thin air.
— from Aces Up by Covington Clarke

The daughter of Rameses II. is drawn thus, and we have examples of the same in many other pictures.]
— from An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

This autobiography is not intended to be a book of controversy, so I shall carefully avoid the details of religious changes and give only results.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

If the Earth existed alone in the universe, it would be forever motionless in the void, wherever it had been placed, with no power to descend or rise or change its position in any way whatsoever; these very expressions—to rise, descend, left or right—having no absolute sense whatever.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion

Only after the child has lived several hours has it gained a right to existence and does the duty of rearing it devolve upon the parents.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt