The third qualification of our wise man is the next to be considered, which goes through and spreads itself over every part of wisdom; it is that whereby we define each particular thing, distinguish the genus from its species, connect consequences, draw just conclusions, and distinguish truth from falsehood, which is the very art and science of disputing; which is not only of the greatest use in the examination of what passes in the world, but is likewise the most rational entertainment, and that which is most becoming to true wisdom.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment] PROSPERO.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If now I am to take no account of duty but only of danger, it is from Pompey's party I run risk, if I do wrong, from Caesar, if I do right: and such is our evil plight that no plan is so free from danger as to leave a doubt that I should avoid doing with disgrace as well as danger what I should have avoided, if it had been safe.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There was a swift inspection of every part of the plane, and in another ten minutes they were again under way, the firing of the engines sounding like a miniature artillery bombardment on the stillness of the night.
— from The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic Flight by James R. Driscoll

The covering of a snake is one entire piece, loose-fitting, and so arranged as to lie in those scale-like folds which accommodate themselves to every movement of the body.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

Here in the cliff face there was a cleft, though one invisible even from a few paces away, since its outer edge projected over the inner wall of rock.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The people are so ignorant of everything pertaining to Christianity, that I have to teach them as if they were children, [277] sure enough.
— from The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

Of the architecture of this period the present ruins show some fine examples, and none finer than the chapter-house, the clustering arches of which are shown in our engraving. page 32 p. 32
— from Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury by John Randall

All of the weight of Romish influence, intellectual, financial, and spiritual, has been employed to destroy the Republic and restore the Monarchy, while the Liberal party has strangled the Church and stripped it of every possession.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

At short intervals on each [Pg 258] side of the broad street a string of lamps stretching above a door-way would mark the entrance to some drinking or gambling den unknown to daylight.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter

They are subsumed in other economic, political, or military alliances and gladly surrender part of that elusive golden braid, their sovereignty.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin