In which question we are not every one, to make our own private Reason, or Conscience, but the Publique Reason, that is, the reason of Gods Supreme Lieutenant, Judge; and indeed we have made him Judge already, if wee have given him a Soveraign power, to doe all that is necessary for our peace and defence.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

95-420, 11-453; —— The River of Golden Sand: Being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

—— Memoir of Captain W. Gill, R.E., and Introductory Essay as prefixed to the New Edition of the "River of Golden Sand."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The Casual Hostess The most casual hostess in the world is the fashionable leader in Newport, she who should by the rules of good society be the most punctilious, since no place in America, or Europe, is more conspicuously representative of luxury and fashion.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

In that reunion of great sovereigns we should have discussed our interests like one family, and have rendered account to the peoples as clerk to master.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They show their red or green signals—which are merely polite sentences and pleasant manners—and they pass on again.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

He knew that his father's appointment was the result of Governor Seward's personal friendship; he did not then know that Senator Sumner had opposed it, or
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

'I was going to remark of Georgiana, sir,' said Fledgeby, not at all pleased to be reminded of his having forgotten it, 'that she don't seem to be violent.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Ran. Faith, I think I could lend it the Rogue on good Security.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume IV by Aphra Behn

The monarch claimed, moreover, though not by any means so freely as in later times, the privilege of issuing pragmáticas , ordinances of an executive character, or for the redress of grievances submitted to him by the national legislature.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

Her Majesty is a fine double white variety of this class, and if, in the case of double varieties, you wish to avoid the risk of getting single flowers, you would better start your stock with a few plants and subdivide.
— from The Garden, You, and I by Mabel Osgood Wright

But Kephallênia and Zakynthos have joined the company of Korkyra and Epidamnos; Aitôlia has entered the formal relation of Roman dependence; Macedonia has sunk to it as the penalty of warfare with Rome; she has risen again to at least formal independence as the reward of good service to the ruling commonwealth.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman