Natural science may advance step by step without ever losing ground; its empirical discoveries are in their severalty as true as they can ever be.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
Nature being minute and absolute in subdivision of function, the law of severalty and independence-than which there is no law more important and instructive-pervades creation.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
This exemption was probably due to the following causes: there was no common stock, but the property was held in severalty; there was a proper proportion of gentlemen and laborers, few of one class and many of the other; Virginia was near at hand and provisions and cattle could be easily secured; and they had immediate use of Indian-cleared fields, because when they arrived at St. Mary's, the Yaocomocos, harassed by the Susquehannas, were on the point of removing across the Potomac to Virginia, and were glad to sell what they had ceased to value.
"England in America, 1580-1652"
Lyon Gardiner Tyler