Pompeio cedere videbatur; parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi; nec plus Africanus, singularis et vir et imperator, in exscindenda Numantia rei publicae profuit quam eodem tempore P. Nasica privatus, cum Ti. Gracchum interemit; quamquam haec quidem res non solum ex domestica est ratione (attingit etiam bellicam, quoniam vi manuque confecta est), sed tamen id ipsum est gestum consilio urbano sine exercitu.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

no sé dónde está la Torre de Zoraya , ni Aldeire , ni el Cenet : yo no sabría ir a España, ni caminar por ella; y, además, allí me 25 matarían por no ser cristiano, o, cuando menos, [98-3] me robarían el tesoro antes o después de descubierto.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

To the poets belong Apollonius, Lycophron, Aratus, Nicander, Euphorion, Callimachus, Theocritus, Philetas, &c. Among those who pursued mathematics, physics, and astronomy was Euclid, the father of scientific geometry; Archimedes, great in physics and mechanics; Apollonius of Perga, whose work on conic sections still exists; Nicomachus, the first scientific arithmetician; and (under the Romans) the astronomer and geographer Ptolemy.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Nay, more, we are not even called upon to assume the possibility of such an hypothesis, as none of the deductions drawn from such an ideal would affect the complete determination of things in general—for the sake of which alone is the idea necessary.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It will be difficult, I know—yes, difficult indeed; but at the end of that time, if you have thoroughly stirred the soil, the land will begin to help you as nothing else can do.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Si nihil aliud, nuptiae et copulatio cum ea.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Another Boston paper said:— It is Harvard which, first among New England colleges, confers an honorary degree upon a black man.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Approaching the question from this angle, it is found that the available data is meagre and not entirely convincing.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

A numerous enlightened class now exists within and without the Islands, a class created and continually augmented by the stupidity of certain governing powers, which forces the inhabitants to leave the country, to secure education abroad, and it is [ 57 ] maintained and struggles thanks to the provocations and the system of espionage in vogue.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Then a new era came.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

Although his general appearance would not indicate it, he is a sly and cunning animal, and not easily captured in a trap of any kind.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

We did not expect him on such a day, and naturally enough cried out surprised.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

But undeniably his own morning was dreary, and not even could Swinburne's canorous Triumph of Time do much more than echo somewhat sadly through the resonant emptiness of his self-constructed prison, whose windows opened on to a sentimental if circumscribed view of unattainable sweetness.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

You know how earnestly I have striven to forward its views both in England and abroad; that through my connexion with it I am _suspect_ at nearly every capital on the Continent--that I could not enter some of them except at the risk of my life; that health, time, money--all have been ungrudgingly given for the furtherance of the same great end.
— from Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Contributory to the process are policemen, politicians, and judges who protect the property of the rich, and prey upon the disinherited; also newspaper editors, college professors, priests of God and preachers of Jesus, who attribute the social evil to "original sin," or the "weakness of human nature."
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

There were eighteen eye cases and nineteen ear cases, three nose, and eighteen of the throat.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

What he was brought into the world for, was to appreciate, as nobody else can, all sorts of esoterically fine things.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

A minor gathering, the débris of a former superb collection, and not even catalogued.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker