From this potpourri of scientific therapeutics and ignorant, superstitious drugging the interested physician will elicit not a few useful data concerning the treatment of disease in the tropics, and at the same time gain a more intimate knowledge of both the people and plants of our new Asiatic possessions.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Thou canst not love disgrace me half so ill, To set a form upon desired change, As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will, I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange; Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell, Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong, And haply of our old acquaintance tell.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Thou canst not (love) disgrace me half so ill, To set a form upon desired change, As I’ll my self disgrace, knowing thy will, I will acquaintance strangle and look strange: Be absent from thy walks and in my tongue, Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Note 114 ( return ) [ The Greek language was introduced into the university of Oxford in the last years of the xvth century, by Grocyn, Linacer, and Latimer, who had all studied at Florence under Demetrius Chalcocondyles.
— 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

It is true that we have really in Flatland a Third unrecognized Dimension called 'height', just as it is also true that you have really in Spaceland a Fourth unrecognized Dimension, called by no name at present, but which I will call 'extra-height'.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

"Sagen aus Fredegar und der Chronik der Frankenkönige."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

We stayed nearly a fortnight at Bordeaux, and, in the course of that time, had a variety of weather, good and bad; so that I think we could [317] not be influenced by the gloom which at first, unexpectedly, damp, chill and uncongenial skies spread around.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

Second edition, with additions, 437 pp., royal 32mo, roan, gilt edges, 5 s. Synopsis of Contents : Atomic Weights and Factors — Useful Data — Chemical Calculations — Rules for Indirect Analysis — Weights and Measures — Thermometers and Barometers — Chemical Physics — Boiling Points, etc. — Solubility of Substances — Methods of Obtaining Specific Gravity — Conversion of Hydrometers — Strength of Solutions by Specific Gravity — Analysis — Gas Analysis — Water Analysis — Qualitative Analysis and Reactions — Volumetric Analysis — Manipulation — Mineralogy — Assaying — Alcohol — Beer — Sugar — Miscellaneous Technological matter relating to Potash, Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Chlorine, Tar Products, Petroleum, Milk, Tallow, Photography, Prices, Wages, Appendix, etc., etc.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

In his student days Linacre had been patronised by Lorenzo de Medicis, and at Florence, under Demetrius Chalcondylas, who had fled from Constantinople when it was taken by the Turks, he acquired a perfect knowledge of the Greek language.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

277 Morphological differences are found under different circumstances, and within limits variation occurs according to the environment.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

Nuño de guzman abiendo sido preso por un juez de residençia que uino de españa para el efecto con prouiçiones bastantes llamado el lic do diego de la torre que despues muriendo este juez que ya tenia en si la gouernaçion de aquella tierra el buen don Antonio de mendoça uisorey de la nueua españa puso por gouernador de aquela gouernaçion a francisco uasques de coronado un cauallero de Salamanca que a la sacon era casado en la çiudad de mexico cõ una señora hija de Alonso de estrada thesorero y gouernador que auia sido de mexico uno por quien el bulgo dice ser hijo del rey catholico don fernando y muchos lo afirman por osa sierta digo que a la sacon que francisco uasques fue probeydo por gouernador andaba por uisitador general de la nueua españa por
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

The road was not provided with parapets save in a few unusually dangerous corners, and the thought of a plunge down that steep incline to the river so far below was not at all pleasant.
— from Greece and the Ægean Islands by Philip Sanford Marden

," Peter went on, "an' 'member dat time you an' young Mars Jim Wilson went huntin' and fishin' up de country tergether, an' got ti'ed er waitin' on yo'se'ves an' writ back fer me ter come up ter wait on yer and cook fer yer, an' ole Marster say he did n' dare ter let me go 'way off yander wid two keerliss boys lak you-all, wid guns an' boats fer fear I mought git shot, er drownded?"
— from The Colonel's Dream by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

These are found upon desks, chests of drawers, commodes, and other pieces of furniture of the Chippendale period.
— from Furniture of the Olden Time by Frances Clary Morse