The orthodox (the prevailing) party devised new modes of speech, and argument, and interpretation: to either nature of Christ they speciously applied a proper and distinct energy; but the difference was no longer visible when they allowed that the human and the divine will were invariably the same.
— 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

But there are others who suffer from artificial poisons and defective exercise as well as artisans and operatives—the numerous class of shopkeepers; the author above quoted says, “Week after week passes without affording them one pure inspiration.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Aristotle explains the term in this sense in the Rhetoric (1 2) [Greek: hae peri ta aethae pragmateia aen dikaion esti prosagoreuen politikaen].
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

An haec propositio Deus sit cucurbita vel scarabeus, sit aeque possibilis ac Deus et homo?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ausfallzeit bad time Ausfallzeit; Zeit des Stillstands der Maschine time of nonuse Ausfallzeitenvergütung rest allowance ausfindig machen locate Ausfuhr exportation Ausfuhrbewilligung export permit ausführen execute ausführen perform ausführen; durchführen; erfüllen execute ausführend; Ausfuhr exporting ausführender Arbeiter; Maschinist operator Ausfuhrhandel export trade Ausfuhrkontingent export quota Ausfuhrkontrolle export control Ausfuhrland exporting country ausführliche Beschreibung full description
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

252 But the Stoics, not applying dogmas to facts but facts to their own preconceived opinions, and forcing things to agree that do not by nature, have filled philosophy with many difficulties, the greatest of which is that all men but the perfect man are equally vicious, which has produced the enigma called progress, one little short of extreme folly, since it makes those who have not at once under its guidance given up all passions and disorders equally unfortunate as those who have not got rid of a single vile propensity.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

And so I out by water among the ships, and to Deptford and Blackewall about business, and so home and to dinner with my father and sister and family, mighty pleasant all of us; and, among other things, with a sparrow that our Mercer hath brought up now for three weeks, which is so tame that it flies up and down, and upon the table, and eats and pecks, and do everything so pleasantly, that we are mightily pleased with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

In due time it reached London, and produced a decided effect upon the bills of mortality for the first and second weeks of January, 1890, but a moderate effect compared with that of 1847, which was the first to be recorded under the same system of registration.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

[294] Another game is played as follows.—The players, each of whom is supplied with paper and pencil, are divided equally into two sides, and the leader having selected a word, suppose “notwithstanding,” each party sets to work to see how many different words they can make of the same letters.
— from How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games by George H. (George Henry) Sandison

A German lady was the patient when the English physician was the spectator, and he describes her as being taken violently by some twenty men to the pillar, or rather into it, for it appears to have contained a chamber; "and after her did go in a priest, and did examine the woman in this manner.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

But here we are only concerned with the question what concept we can form of Him, according to the constitution of our cognitive faculties; and whether we have to assume His existence in order merely to furnish practical reality to a purpose, which pure Reason without any such presupposition enjoins upon us a priori to bring about with all our powers, i.e. in order to be able to think as possible a designed effect.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

It is remarkable from the fact that the blocks of stone forming its semicircular arch are of light and dark colour, [ 63] and are arranged alternately, so as to impart a picturesque and decorative effect.
— from English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century by George Clinch

But it was the wearing, irritating, exciting, yet stupefying progress of a lawsuit which had a painful and distressing effect upon his mind.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

They said they had not found any rich ground, but they could now make at least a pound a day each by constant work.
— from The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale