1. likewise affirms; but Brassivola and Dodonaeus defend Mesue out of their experience; let [4213] Valesius end the controversy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For I am aware what ability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the virtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human arrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities that totter on this shifting scene.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The skill and strength that were exerted in wrestling and boxing bear a distant and doubtful relation to the merit of a soldier; but the tournaments, as they were invented in France, and eagerly adopted both in the East and West, presented a lively image of the business of the field.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I have dwelt so long upon authors, that you will perhaps suspect I intend to enroll myself among the fraternity; but, if I were actually qualified for the profession, it is at best but a desperate resource against starving, as it affords no provision for old age and infirmity.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Let us see whom she affects, and what society and converse she seeks in virtue of her near kindred with the immortal and eternal and divine; also how different she would become if wholly following this superior principle, and borne by a divine impulse out of the ocean in which she now is, and disengaged from the stones and shells and things of earth and rock which in wild variety spring up around her because she feeds upon earth, and is overgrown by the good things of this life as they are termed: then you would see her as she is, and know whether she have one shape only or many, or what her nature is.
— from The Republic by Plato

And whereas it is sayd, that having eaten, they saw they were naked; no man hath so interpreted that place, as if they had formerly blind, as saw not their own skins: the meaning is plain, that it was then they first judged their nakednesse (wherein it was Gods will to create them) to be uncomely; and by being ashamed, did tacitely censure God himselfe.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Seeing that all our classes are permeated by these elements, we have grasped the fact that modern society is not a "society" or a "body," but a diseased agglomeration of Chandala,—a society which no longer has the strength even to excrete .
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Afterward, he continued in the firms of Brown & Jones and Bisland & Brown, and died in 1898.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[Be] really of [59] Virtue and valour, those fair twins, That are born, breathe, and die together: then You'll no more be called butterflies, but men: Think on't, and pay your reckoning.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley

The repose of Europe has been assailed by both, at different periods of her history.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

"Pa bears, ma bears, and baby bears, all different sizes.
— from The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall

Do not fancy that Christian righteousness is different from ordinary 'goodness,' except as being broader and deeper, more thorough-going, more imperative.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Charles Reade at Magdalen “created a panic even among the junior members” by wearing a green coat and brass buttons, as Dean of Arts.
— from Oxford by Edward Thomas

The plot of The Kedziad was to be based on the From-Rags-to-Riches leitmotiv , Kedzie was to be a cruelly treated waif brought up as a boy by a demoniac Italian padrone who made her steal.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

On the right of the stream there is a broad meadow, golden green in the sunlight, "with groups of trees casting cool shadows on the grass, and backed by a distant belt of woodland of rich blues and greens."
— from Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

Brindizáre, as Brinzáre. Brindizáta, a drinking to one.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

“If the light is not fully absorbed,” both bright and dark lines of the same element may be visible in the same star.
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore