Whether these laws were then written, or not written, but dictated to the People by Moses (after his forty dayes being with God in the Mount) by word of mouth, is not expressed in the Text; but they were all positive Laws, and equivalent to holy Scripture, and made Canonicall by Moses the Civill Soveraign.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It is a survival; an apparently unnecessary thing which in some strange way has outlived the conditions which once made it necessary.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Therefore political freedom does not give us freedom when our mind is not free.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

For the fact is, that during the last four weeks of my illness, no other than Captain Quin was staying at Castle Brady, and making love to Miss Nora in form.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

I may have threatened her life (which it was obviously my interest not to take), and have frightened her, in a word, considerably.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The story that he went to Rome at the request of Pope Sergius, founded on a statement of William of Malmesbury, is now regarded as highly improbable.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

“I foresee, reverend father, that my youth and my want of experience will often make it necessary for me to disturb you.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"Ruprecht is above me in every sense," said Edna; "and because I'm a Princess by no wish of mine is no reason why I should sacrifice myself for reasons of state.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

Though the water of the eight little springs which form the Wells of Moses is not so salt as that of many wells dug in other parts of the deserts, it is, nevertheless, exceedingly brackish, and does not allay thirst so well as fresh water.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Nevertheless, we are heartily glad to welcome our more intelligent neighbours”.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 1 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

He, too, remembered how for years the little party assembled now in La Croix Blanche had all been as though one family; he remembered the black spot that had come amongst them; that to Fordingbridge, whom he himself had introduced into Fane's house, was owing most, if not all, of the evil that had befallen them.
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Mr. Ridley Gennet was a great artist, and from the hour he waved his wand over me, I never really awoke ‘till I was beggared.’
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

It takes the finest polish, and is employed in baths, in the wainscoting of rooms, in tomb-stones, and in every other purpose where ornamental marble is necessary.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

Unfortunately the Canopus was once more in need of repairs, and had to be left behind for twenty-four hours.
— from Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War by John Buchan

A glorious summer was once more brooding over sea and land, when one morning, in Nance's cottage, a feeble wail was heard; a sound which brought a flood of happiness to Valmai, for nothing could wholly crush the joyous welcome of a mother's heart.
— from By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine

The philosophy of the necessitarian overlooks the slight circumstance, that the will of man is not a ball to be set a-going by external impulse; but that man is a rational being, made in the image of his Maker, and can act as a designing cause.
— from An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Not so: I have long since submitted myself, resigned myself, nay even reconciled myself, perhaps, to the great wreck of my life, in so far as it was the will of God, and according to the weakness of my imperfect nature.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey