Besides a foolish and feeble pride, an impertinent prating, froward and insociable humours, superstition, and a ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them, I find there more envy, injustice, and malice.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"The first requisite in a systematic study of the religions of the lower races," he says, "is to lay down a rudimentary definition of religion.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

We see, then, that a democracy may be framed where the majority live by tillage or pasturage; for, as their property is but small, they will not be at leisure perpetually to hold public assemblies, but will be continually employed in following their own business, not having otherwise the means of living; nor will they be desirous of what another enjoys, but will rather like to follow their own business than meddle with state affairs and accept the offices of government, which will be attended with no great profit; for the major part of mankind are rather desirous of riches than honour (a proof of this is, that they submitted to the tyrannies in ancient times, and do now submit to the oligarchies, if no one hinders them in their usual occupations, or deprives them of their property; for some of them soon get rich, others are removed from poverty); besides, their having the right of election and calling their magistrates to account for their conduct when they come out of office, will satisfy their desire of honours, if any of them entertain that passion: for in some states, though the commonalty have not the right of electing the magistrates, yet it is vested in part of that body chosen to represent them: and it is sufficient for the people at large to possess the deliberative power: and this ought to be considered as a species of democracy; such was that formerly at Mantinsea: for which reason it is proper for the democracy we have been now treating of to have a power (and it has been usual for them to have it) of censuring their magistrates when out of office, and sitting in judgment upon all causes: but that the chief magistrates should be elected, and according to a certain census, which should vary with the rank of their office, or else not by a census, but according to their abilities for their respective appointments.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

In the course of a recent discussion on rickets before the Medical Society of Vienna, Moll states briefly that in a case of infantile scurvy, at the height of the disease, he found a positive calcium balance, which became poor and later negative on giving fruit juice; in other words, a partial confirmation of the work which has just been cited.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

A remarkable degree of red means that, a remarkable exchange is made.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

rabat-i , to rebate, give a reduction, discount or rebate.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

A rough dam of rubble, or [Pg 468] bags of mortar or clay, was then constructed outside the iron, and the rings were shoved back and connected up.
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 by Francis Mason

A Few Memories and Recollections (de omnibus rebus).
— from A Girl of the North: A Story of London and Canada by Susan Morrow Jones

Had the Highlanders, on receiving orders, marched down to the sea-coast, and become fishermen, with the readiness with which a regiment deploys on review day, the atrocities would, we doubt not, have been much fewer.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

The legend of the dragon's teeth was realised that day; as fast as row drooped over row, so did other rows spring up, propelled by a giant force behind.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 2 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

All reporters dream of reaching New York.
— from Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

A Few Memories and Recollections (" de omnibus rebus ").
— from The Hypocrite by Guy Thorne

As for the other writer, whose departure many friends, some few most dearly-loved relatives, and multitudes of admiring readers deplore, our republic has already decreed his statue, and he must have known that he had earned this posthumous honor.
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

It was a regular day of rejoicing.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

And so soon as we clearly recognize that light is an electric vibration, so soon shall we begin to beat about for some mode of exciting and maintaining an electrical vibration of any required degree of rapidity.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various