Again, Peck renders “illud erat vivere” by “that was life,” but, in the words of our lyric American jazz, we would be more inclined to render it “that was the life.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Page 63 , “Meætetus” changed to “Theætetus” (as Plato records in his Theætetus)
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And wonderful indeed are the revolutions and periodical returns in natural constitutions of such alternations and vicissitudes, which it is the part of the wise politician to investigate with the closest attention.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[ 2 ] At most, the command laid upon us by science to believe nothing not yet verified by the senses is a prudential rule intended to maximize our right thinking and minimize our errors in the long run .
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

We are reminded, however, by the Observances of Barnwell Priory that “by showing hospitality to guests the reputation of the monastery is increased, friendships are multiplied, animosities are blunted, God is honoured, charity is increased, and a plenteous reward in heaven is promised.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

[132] This view is suggested by Mr. Herbert Spencer’s statement—in a letter to J. S. Mill, published in Mr. Bain’s Mental and Moral Science ; and partially reprinted in Mr. Spencer’s Data of Ethics , chap.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Kalma kaáyu ang panahun run, It’s a very calm day.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As previously reported I toted a borrowed frock coat and stovepipe hat.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

The gross circulation of these airborne papers reached in some cases up into the millions.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Her bearing and her gestures were somewhat brusque at times, and gave her rather too disdainful an air; but her smile was so frank and pleasant that it excused any possible rudeness in her manner to persons who did not know her well.
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock

And what is true of those diverse feelings which we group under the concepts pleasure and pain respectively, is true also of those more complex dispositions which we call emotional—using this term in a broad and comprehensive sense.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

If there was really a present rigour in the situation of which Gravener had sketched for me the elements, she would have to get out of her difficulty by herself.
— from The Coxon Fund by Henry James

He knew she was kind and ungrudging, and his main regret was for his meagre knowledge and poor responses in regard to his large blank aunts.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

It was here that an inquisitive daughter of the innkeeper, who evidently knew a good deal about postilions, recognized in the youth stretched upon the straw the young gentleman she had seen riding in state in the other direction only a few days before.
— from The Boys' Life of Lafayette by Helen Nicolay

“I was thinking last night that if I keep on eating bacon for many months more I’ll be growing a pork rind in my stomach.”
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska; Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass by Frank Gee Patchin

Jack, mounted as usual on Hurry, the ostrich, carried the mysterious wet bag very carefully slung at his side, and when near home started off at a prodigious rate in advance of us.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss

" A Perfect Restaurant in Every Respect.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various