And the same observations which may be made on the senate at Lacedaemon may be applied to these; for their being under no control, and their continuing for life, is an honour greater than they merit; and to have their proceedings not regulated by a written law, but left to their own discretion, is dangerous.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

As to poor Crusoe in the self-same sea, no saint's bell pealed forth the lapse of week or month; each day went by unchallenged; no chanticleer announced those sultry dawns, no lowing herds those poisonous nights.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Crimes go unpunished: not crimes against the Revolution.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The girl's despondent face, as she came in day after day from her unsuccessful quest, told its own story, though she uttered no complaint, and these friendly souls laid their heads together, eager to help her in their own dramatic fashion.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

I know my will, not as a whole, not as a unity, not completely, according to its nature, but I know it only in its particular acts, and therefore in time, which is the form of the phenomenal aspect of my body, as of every object.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Milnes was always unearthing new coins and trying to give them currency.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

For since Thou hast commanded us not continency alone, that is, from what things to refrain our love, but righteousness also, that is, whereon to bestow it, and hast willed us to love not Thee only, but our neighbour also; often, when pleased with intelligent praise, I seem to myself to be pleased with the proficiency or towardliness of my neighbour, or to be grieved for evil in him, when I hear him dispraise either what he understands not, or is good.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The child was usually named (christened) at the time it was baptized.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

But were this experience to exhale its spirit in a vacuum, using no conventional and transmissible medium of expression, it would be foiled in its intent.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It utters no cry at the thousands of hands employed on Sunday railways, but is beside itself if one of the trains takes excursionists to the seaside, and is frantic at the thought of a comparatively few persons being employed on that day in Museums and Art Galleries.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Most of the estates are under native control, and the methods of cultivation are not up to the standard of the European-owned plantations on the larger islands of Java and Sumatra.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Here, as in the case of William’s invasion of England, the Papacy used Norman conquest as the instrument of its own aggrandizement.
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

In all such cases, I take it to be admitted on all hands, that she sets up no claim, and therefore every abuse of this sort is capable of remedy.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

1704–1717 Les Mille et une Nuits, Contes Arabes, trad.
— from Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

Maroncelli uttered no cry at the operation, and when he saw the [Pg 372] leg carried off said to the surgeon, 'You have liberated me from an enemy, and I have no way to thank you.'
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

my uncle next called, and the general added: "Gavin Witherspoon!"
— from With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies by James Otis

Every operator of a large factory, every [Pg 277] merchant is, under normal conditions, able to determine accurately what he will need during the next three months, and how he should regulate his production and purchases.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel