C μήτε τὸν λόγον ἔχων τοῦ νομοθέτου, ‘not being in possession of, not knowing, the intention of the legislator’; for the definite article removes it from the category of the cases considered.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

[Pg 698] in 1802, and resided in France from 1804 until his death in 1814.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

These sounds were, from time to time, heard by the servants, and revived in full force the memory of the old ghost legend.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She walked in imitation of her mentor as requested, inwardly feeling that there was something strangely lacking.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I love good eating; am sensual, but not greedy; I have such a variety of inclinations to gratify, that this can never predominate; and unless my heart is unoccupied, which very rarely happens, I pay but little attention to my appetite; to purloining eatables, but extended this propensity to everything I wished to possess, and if I did not become a robber in form, it was only because money never tempted me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thus stabbing is common in Italy and rare in France; while duels are common in France, and rare in Italy.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It made me want to be 13 again right now and reading it for the first time, and then go out and make the world better or stranger or odder.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

( Moore, Journal during a Residence in France ( Dublin, 1793 ), i. 26. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Early in January, 1862, I was directed by General McClellan, through my department commander, to make a reconnoissance in favor of Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell, who commanded the Department of the Ohio, with headquarters at Louisville, and who was confronting General S. B. Buckner with a larger Confederate force at Bowling Green.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

And notwithstanding all these oppositions, these men, simple and weak, resist all these powers, subdue even these kings, these learned men and these sages, and remove idolatry from all the earth.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Il quale smontato che fu, di nuovo amicabilmente riabbracciò il Frescobaldo, e volto a l’armiraglio, et ad altri prencipi e signori che con lui erano venuti a desinare, disse: Signori, non vi meravigliate de le amorevoli dimostrazioni che io faccio a questo gentiluomo Fiorentino, perchè queste sono parte di pagamento
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

The Doctor wisely took advantage of Mrs. Cary’s absence from the room to do this, but had got no farther than to congratulate the General on the luxury of fresh linen and to receive from him the gallant assurance that he had felt on putting it on that morning, as a knight of old might have felt when he donned his armor prepared by virgin hands, when Mrs. Cary entered and, recognizing instantly from her husband’s look of suspicious innocence and
— from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page

Everything is adoration, resignation, incense fumes, psalmody, and crusaders.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

If the structure of antennæ be taken into consideration, it will furnish us with additional reasons in favour of the above hypothesis, with regard to their primary function.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

With me began the so-called romantic school, a revolution in French literature: nevertheless, my friend, instead of revolting against my barbarism, became enamoured of it.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

The first colonists who came to Louisiana were men of the first blood and rank in France.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

The brave artillery remains in front of Scarlet, and was reinforced this morning with some ammunition.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

Meanwhile the Athenians had received the alarm and set sail with the fleet from Samos to forestall them, and came within sight of the island, but being a little too late sailed off for the moment to Chalce, and from thence to Samos, and subsequently waged war against Rhodes, issuing from Chalce, Cos, and Samos.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Crises are thus made to rest on an ever narrowing economic basis, and all that remains to discover is how in spite of it all it can still happen that the crises are universal and increasingly severe besides, as Rodbertus is fully aware.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg