Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently Concentered to promote its good.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States"
Paul Leicester Ford
Versailles was in itself a city of palaces and of courtiers, where all that could dazzle the eye in regal pomp and princely voluptuousness was Concentered.
"Madame Roland, Makers of History"
John S. C. Abbott
Then, the Sciences, issuing from the focus in which they had been Concentered and concealed, reappeared in all their lustre.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is"
Francis W. Blagdon