Sentence Examples

1. There are rules that govern this world, and, while those creatures may scare you, they are not allowed to kill you.
2. After all, I would not exchange him for another squire, though I were given a city to boot, and therefore I am in doubt whether it will be well to send him to the government your highness has bestowed upon him though I perceive in him a certain aptitude for the work of governing, so that, with a little trimming of his understanding, he would manage any government as easily as the king does his taxes and moreover, we know already ample experience that it does not require much cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred round about us that scarcely know how to read, and govern like gerfalcons.
3. They tell me thou dost govern as if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, so great is the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself.
4. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war in order to stifle or divert the clamor of the subjects against their evil administration.
5. This illustrious person had very usefully employed his studies in finding out effectual remedies for all diseases and corruptions to which the several kinds of public administration are subject, by the vices or infirmities of those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey.
6. For sixteen centuries he trusted them to govern Atlantis and manage the flow of Ambrosia to Olympus.
7. He would die before letting that Norman bastard govern him.
8. He believed that the Ancients created everything in the system of Gladonus, but lost their power during the Great War, so the Twelve picked up their reins to govern all planets except the Central Core.
9. They asked him how he had come to the conclusion that the ten crowns were in the cane he replied, that observing how the old man who swore gave the stick to his opponent while he was taking the oath, and swore that he had really and truly given him the crowns, and how as soon as he had done swearing he asked for the stick again, it came into his head that the sum demanded must be inside it and from this he said it might be seen that God sometimes guides those who govern in their judgments, even though they may be fools besides he had himself heard the curate of his village mention just such another case, and he had so good a memory, that if it was not that he forgot everything he wished to remember, there would not be such a memory in all the island.
10. That our institutions of government and law were plainly owing to our gross defects in reason, and by consequence, in virtue because reason alone is sufficient to govern a rational creature which was therefore a character we had no pretense to challenge, even from the account I had given of my own people although he manifestly perceived, that in order to favor them, I had concealed many particulars, and often said the thing which was not.