And the epigram cannot possibly be by Homer, for he lived many years, as it is said, before Midas.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

387 Rome, Onesimus at, p. 378 ; St Paul at, p. 32 ῥιζοῦν, ii. 7 Sabbath, observance of, by Christ and the Essenes compared, p.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

An army thus employed constituted perhaps the most useful, as well as the bravest, portion of Roman subjects.
— 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

[“‘Tis not by the value of possessions, but by our daily subsistence and tillage, that our riches are truly estimated.” —Cicero, Paradox, vi. 3.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Socrates had begun at Athens, and the elder Cato proceeded at Rome, to inveigh against those seductive and subtle Greeks, who corrupted the virtue and destroyed the courage of their fellow-citizens: culture, however, prevailed.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"] Through the soft evening air enwinding all, Rocks, woods, fort, cannon, pacing sentries, endless wilds, In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes, Electric, pensive, turbulent, artificial, (Yet strangely fitting even here, meanings unknown before, Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here, Not to the city's fresco'd rooms, not to the audience of the opera house, Sounds, echoes, wandering strains, as really here at home, Sonnambula's innocent love, trios with Norma's anguish, And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;) Ray'd in the limpid yellow slanting sundown, Music, Italian music in Dakota.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

For whereas there is one form which is given from without to every bodily substance,—such as the form which is constructed by potters and smiths, and that class of artists who paint and fashion forms like the body of animals,—but another and internal form which is not itself constructed, but, as the efficient cause, produces not only the natural bodily
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Venga a trovarmi e ci pensi.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And whereas Apollo at Delos, Venus at Cyprus, Diana at Ephesus, and those other gods were confined and adored alone in some peculiar places: Aesculapius and his temple and altars everywhere, in Corinth, Lacedaemon, Athens, Thebes, Epidaurus, &c. Pausanius records, for the latitude of his art, deity, worth, and necessity.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If we follow the first line we may attempt to explain conduct psychologically by showing the simple ideas or feelings and the causal connections or laws of habit and association out of which actions arise.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

I observed a curious notice affixed to every conspicuous part of the walls, forbidding any man to speak to a woman within the cathedral under the pain of excommunication, and the penalty of two ducats, to be given to holy purposes; thus making good spring out of evil.
— from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis

"Make way for the parcels post and the express company!" proclaimed Spud, as he dropped several packages on one of the cots.
— from The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College by Edward Stratemeyer

All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Valuable as the early Christian poetry Page 4 of England is, we look in vain there for the humour, the large-minded simplicity of motive, the suggestive character-drawing, the swift dramatic action, which are as conspicuous in many poems in the Edda as in many of the Sagas.
— from The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 by L. Winifred Faraday

Paul was informed that Gabriel was out in the river catching driftwood, and the entire colored population appeared to join in yelling for "Gabe" to come ashore.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

Nevertheless, I was assured that the mechanics would rather destroy all the machinery and actually starve, than bring themselves to take a sickle in their hands, or bind a sheaf, so intractable and obstinate are the English common people rendered by their universal comfort, and the certainty of obtaining employment if they vigorously seek it.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook