In regard to all these matters the Act is retrospective, and necessitates persons who had undertaken nursing and maintenance of such infants before its coming into operation to comply with its provisions within a month after the commencement thereof.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

An interesting fact was that this was to be a civil force in uniform, not a military organization subject to the Queen's regulations, but dependent for discipline upon the personality of the officers, the esprit de corps that would be generated and the noblesse oblige idea that would emerge in the course of service.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

No academy, no university, no Alma Mater of science or learning nourished him.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Whereas , by the proclamation of emancipation of President Lincoln in the year 1863, about four million of colored people were emancipated from American slavery; and whereas , by the subsequent amendments to the Constitution of the United States, passed by Congress and ratified [Pg 8] by more than three-quarters of the States of the Union, nearly a million of said emancipated slaves, of lawful age and sex, were enfranchised and made citizens; and Whereas , said amendments to the Constitution were practically nullified and rendered a dead letter in the Southern States at the last presidential election, and ever since, by disfranchising the colored Republicans who would not put into the ballot-boxes Democratic tickets, shooting some and intimidating others; and Whereas , the elements of despotism in the Democratic party are now clamoring for a repeal of the said constitutional amendments, so that they may return the colored Republicans legally to their former condition, or a worse one, and use them for Democratic voters and ballot-box stuffers; therefore,— RESOLUTIONS.
— from Emancipation and Emigration A Plan to Transfer the Freedmen of the South to the Government Lands of the West by The Principia Club by Anonymous