(This word, which tells us how many Members of the Subject are also Members of the Predicate, is called the ‘ Sign of Quantity .’) (2) Name of Subject. (3)
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

For that Soveraign, cannot be imagined to love his People as he ought, that is not Jealous of them, but suffers them by the flattery of Popular men, to be seduced from their loyalty, as they have often been, not onely secretly, but openly, so as to proclaime Marriage with them In Facie Ecclesiae by Preachers; and by publishing the same in the open streets: which may fitly be compared to the violation of the second of the ten Commandements.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The result of my inquiries in this matter, with the addition of some later improvements, stands thus: That the best testimonies hereto relating, imply, that Paketyrus, or Oldest Tyre, was no other than that most ancient smaller fort or city Tyre, situated on the continent, and mentioned in Joshua 19:29, out of which the Canaanite or Phoenician inhabitants were driven into a large island, that lay not far off in the sea, by Joshua: that this island was then joined to the continent at the present remains of Paketyrus, by a neck of land over against Solomon's cisterns, still so called; and the city's fresh water, probably, was carried along in pipes by that neck of land; and that this island was therefore, in strictness, no other than a peninsula, having villages in its fields, Ezekiel 26:6, and a wall about it, Amos 1:10, and the city was not of so great reputation as Sitlon for some ages: that it was attacked both by sea and land by Salmanasser, as Josephus informs us, Antiq.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But to this question, I shall answer; that sea of Caspian goeth out by land under the mountains, and runneth by the desert at one side of the country, and after it stretcheth unto the ends of Persia, and although it be clept a sea, it is no sea, ne it toucheth to none other sea, but it is a lake, the greatest of the world; and though they would put them into that sea, they ne wist never where that they should arrive; and also they can no language but only their own, that no man knoweth but they; and therefore may they not go out.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

They have the right of sitting in all lodges of their degree, of receiving all the instructions which appertain to it, but not of speaking or voting, and, lastly, of offering themselves as candidates for advancement, without the preparatory necessity of a formal written petition.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

But was there no other solution for her, Volodya?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Bows and arrows" are not often spoken of, but archer heroes, such as Toki, Ane Bow-swayer, and Orwar-Odd, are known.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

This is reminiscence: just as any one, seeing Simmias, is often reminded of Cebes, and so in an infinite number of similar instances."
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time; and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be embraced instead of smacked.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"As to myself, and stating in the first place the effect on my understanding, your opinions and method of argument were not only so new to me, but so directly the reverse of all I had ever been accustomed to consider as truth, that even if I had comprehended your premises sufficiently to have admitted them, and had seen the necessity of your conclusions, I should still have been in that state of mind, which in your note in Chap.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here they will assemble to the number of some hundreds, living in communities, and working together.
— from Afar in the Forest by William Henry Giles Kingston

It had a number of small rooms round the enclosure for the pilgrims.
— from The Romance of Modern Sieges Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world by Edward Gilliat

These literary men, in truth, know nothing of society.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Mr. Dillwyn, in introducing his last Bill (May 25, 1881), [176] proposed that no one should be confined as a lunatic except upon an order of the justice of the peace; that no one should be incarcerated except at the instance of a near relative, or of some solicitor of repute.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

He might expect to encounter no other serious opposition save that of the various extreme parties, each of which by itself could do nothing, and which even when leagued together were no more than a coalition of factions still vehemently hostile to each other and inwardly at thorough variance.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

It is true that this fact is not reported except in a certain number of societies, [491] but it is probably general.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

She was young, and doubtless susceptible; and it was not in the nature of Spanish females to be deaf and insensible to music and admiration.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

No one speaks, no one so much as glances at the other.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

The two men had been working in a sort of partnership, Webster being a musician and Bennett a ready verse-writer, and together they had created and published a number of sheet-music songs.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

I must give the palm to your City Guard, who have held the most dangerous post, the one at the breach by the Kreuz Gate, with such calm determination that the Swedes never once set foot on the ramparts.
— from The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War by Anonymous