Begirt by many a sage, elate, Vaśishṭha reached the royal gate, And standing by the door he found Sumantra, for his form renowned, The king's illustrious charioteer And noble counsellor and peer.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

ARTIS MAGIRICÆ ADIECIT IOSEPHVS DOMMERS UEHLING INTRODVCIT FRIDERICVS STARR {Illustration} Return to text Transcription of title page, Schola Apitiana, Antwerp, 1535 SCHOLA APITIANA, EX OPTIMIS QVIBVSDAM authoribus diligenter ac nouiter constructa, authore Polyonimo Syngrapheo.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

It is certain, that superstition is much more bold in its systems and hypotheses than philosophy; and while the latter contents itself with assigning new causes and principles to the phaenomena, which appear in the visible world, the former opens a world of its own, and presents us with scenes, and beings, and objects, which are altogether new.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

And now cheat and play the informer if you can; I ask no quarter at your hands.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The same instrument, says another, obliges each province to levy certain contributions; but this article never could, and probably never will, be executed; because the inland provinces, who have little commerce, cannot pay an equal quota.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The core of religion not theoretical.—Loyalty to the sources of our being.—The pious Æneas.—An ideal background required.—Piety accepts natural conditions and present tasks.—The leadership of instinct is normal.—Embodiment essential to spirit.—Piety to the gods takes form from current ideals.—The religion of humanity.—Cosmic piety Pages 178 - 192 CHAPTER XI SPIRITUALITY AND ITS CORRUPTIONS To be spiritual is to live in view of the ideal.—Spirituality natural.—Primitive consciousness may be spiritual.—Spirit crossed by instrumentalities.—One foe of the spirit is worldliness.—The case for and against pleasure.—Upshot of worldly wisdom.—Two supposed escapes from vanity: fanaticism and mysticism.—Both are irrational.—Is there a third course?—Yes, for experience has intrinsic, inalienable values.—For these the religious imagination must supply an ideal standard Pages 193 - 213 CHAPTER XII CHARITY Possible tyranny of reason.—Everything has its rights.—Primary and secondary morality.—Uncharitable pagan justice is not just.—The doom of ancient republics.—Rational charity.—Its
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Meanwhile Eurylochus and his companions, finding that this force had entered and that it was impossible to storm the town, withdrew, not to Peloponnese, but to the country once called Aeolis, and now Calydon and Pleuron, and to the places in that neighbourhood, and Proschium in Aetolia; the Ambraciots having come and urged them to combine with them in attacking Amphilochian Argos and the rest of Amphilochia and Acarnania; affirming that the conquest of these countries would bring all the continent into alliance with Lacedaemon.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Yea, but you will infer, your mistress is complete, of a most absolute form in all men's opinions, no exceptions can be taken at her, nothing may be added to her person, nothing detracted, she is the mirror of women for her beauty, comeliness and pleasant grace, inimitable, merae deliciae, meri lepores , she is Myrothetium Veneris, Gratiarum pixis , a mere magazine of natural perfections, she hath all the Veneres and Graces,— mille faces et mille figuras , in each part absolute and complete, [5726] Laeta genas laeta os roseum, vaga lumina laeta : to be admired for her person, a most incomparable, unmatchable piece, aurea proles, ad simulachrum alicujus numinis composita, a Phoenix, vernantis aetatulae Venerilla , a nymph, a fairy,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Of the stars which are named Castor and Pollux ib. 38.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Sensibility having returned, a cloak was wrapped around her, and she was conveyed to a neighbouring cottage and put to bed, where her stiffened limbs were chafed and warm drinks administered, and it began to be hoped that no serious consequences would ensue.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

For as a torch or candle, as long as it hath life enough and is lighted, shines round about, disperses its light, delights those that are near it, yields them its service and clearness, and never causes any pain or displeasure; but as soon as ‘tis extinguished, its smoke and evaporation infects the air, offends the bystanders, and is noisome to all; so, as long as those noble and renowned souls inhabit their bodies, peace, profit, pleasure, and honour never leave the places where they abide; but as soon as they leave them, both the continent and adjacent islands are annoyed with great commotions; in the air fogs, darkness, thunder, hail; tremblings, pulsations, agitations of the earth; storms and hurricanes at sea; together with sad complaints amongst the people, broaching of religions, changes in governments, and ruins of commonwealths.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Phlemm ó ne, an inflammation of blood, or white and red swelling against nature, called a Phlegmon.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

So when the whole body of the people were come together, as they had resolved to do, the king came to the ark, which the priest brought out of the house of Aminadab, and laid it upon a new cart, and permitted their brethren and their children to draw it, together with the oxen.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

By dint of some industry and much persuasion, I succeeded in inducing the Abolitionists in New York to join our little band in Boston, in calling a national convention at Philadelphia.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

AGED FORTY-SEVEN HE THROWS OFF ANOTHER 'NORHAM CASTLE' AND PREPARES TO STARTLE THE WORLD WITH 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ' Turner sent nothing to the Royal Academy of 1821, and in 1822 he exhibited only the unimportant 'What you Will,' a mere nothing, a memory of some other painter.
— from Turner's Golden Visions by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind