The Liberty of a Subject, lyeth therefore only in those things, which in regulating their actions, the Soveraign hath praetermitted; such as is the Liberty to buy, and sell, and otherwise contract with one another; to choose their own aboad, their own diet, their own trade of life, and institute their children as they themselves think fit; & the like.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And to this our Lord answered: I keep thee full surely .
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

At first stupid and meditative, he awakened afterwards, was crowned at Sorbonnne, having obtained first prize for a translation of Latin, and in 1845 made a brilliant showing in his thesis for the degree of doctor of laws.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Whenever I visited him he noticed an eye-glass which I wore round my neck, and in which the window of the room and the tops of the trees beyond were reflected: on every occasion he was greatly surprised and delighted with this, and was never tired of looking at it with astonishment, because he did not understand the immediate causation of reflection.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

In the other little arch is a story of Christ when he is delivering S. Peter from shipwreck, so well done that one seems to hear the voice of Peter saying: "Domine, salva nos, perimus."
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Whenever these persons of high distinction condescend to visit the public baths, they assume, on their entrance, a tone of loud and insolent command, and appropriate to their own use the conveniences which were designed for the Roman people.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The Dowager Lady Chettam, just returned from a visit to her daughter in town, wished, at least, that Mrs. Vigo should be written to, and invited to accept the office of companion to Mrs. Casaubon: it was not credible that Dorothea as a young widow would think of living alone in the house at Lowick.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

History records the efforts of conquering peoples to impose upon the conquered their own laws and institutions.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It is very significant that at any time during these twenty years of your life here, it would have been just as delightful to meet and say the pleasant words that leap to our lips, as it is to say them to-day.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 07, July, 1888 by Various

He reared up a new trade of life, and in the same house he procured all the cut-purses about the city, to repair to his house; there was a school-house set up to learn young boys to cut purses: two devices were hung up; one was a pocket, and another was a purse; the pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over the top did hang a little sacring bell.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

'He will have to go into a new home and accommodate himself to that, at a time of life and in a condition of health unfitting him for a change.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Let her hammer you for all she's worth, and every whack you get feel proud that she's able to give it at her time of life, and I bet when you're a man you'll be telling every one that you had a grandma who was worth owning.
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

In doing this one loses all idea of direction, and we were, I have no doubt, forming figures of eight in our endeavours to extricate ourselves.
— from A Book of Dartmoor Second Edition by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

In numerous instances where colored men have have been lynched on the charge of rape, it was positively known at the time of lynching, and indisputably proven after the victim's death, that the relationship sustained between the man and woman was voluntary and clandestine, and that in no court of law could even the charge of assault have been successfully maintained.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

And take the tide of life as it may break; To know the struggle that a man should know
— from Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

Annie either would not or could not tell; and she would add, perhaps she ought to congratulate Caroline on her separation from him, as such a dread mandate had gone from her parent, and she surely would not wish to encourage his society; and then she would implore her forgiveness, and sympathise so well in her fancied distress, and describe that of Lord Alphingham in such heightened colours, that Caroline, unsophisticated as in some things she still was, felt truly miserable.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

In the main this skull is like the other one, differing chiefly in the depth of the sphenoid, in the mesial ridge between the cerebral lobes, in showing the optic lobes, and in having anchylosed basi-temporal bones.
— from The Ornithosauria An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley