Bounty and magnificence are virtues very regal, but a prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious; for store at home draweth not his contemplations abroad, but want supplieth itself of what is next, and many times the next way.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The count or his delegate alone presided at the tribunal, and pronounced the judgment.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Bryant pulsing the first interior verse-throbs of a mighty world—bard of the river and the wood, ever conveying a taste of open air, with scents as from hayfields, grapes, birch-borders—always lurkingly fond of threnodies—beginning and ending his long career with chants of death, with here and there through all, poems, or passages of poems, touching the highest universal truths, enthusiasms, duties—morals as grim and eternal, if not as stormy and fateful, as anything in Eschylus.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Then, lest the size of the city might be of no avail, in order to augment the population, according to the ancient policy of the founders of cities, who, after drawing together to them an obscure and mean multitude, used to feign that their offspring sprung out of the earth, he opened as a [Pg 14] sanctuary, a place which is now enclosed as you go down "to the two groves."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Through [ 111 ] some cause or other a blight seemed to have come over her garden, as almost all the trees and plants ceased flowering; she had therefore given up her place as the flower-supplier of the royal household.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

I observe it, because I can't help observing it, being accustomed to take a powerful sight of notice; but I don't object.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Hence it is natural that in the magical dramas designed to dispel winter and bring back spring the emphasis should be laid on vegetation, and that trees and plants should figure in them more prominently than beasts and birds.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Having invited Helen and me to approach the table, and placed before each of us a cup of tea with one delicious but thin morsel of toast, she got up, unlocked a drawer, and taking from it a parcel wrapped in paper, disclosed presently to our eyes a good-sized seed-cake.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He gave her such an education as the time and place afforded, dressed her well, and behaved with kindness toward her, while she repaid this care with the frank bestowal of her heart.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

My suit, then, is, that this unseemly Idol throughout the land be plucked down and cast into the fire; and that the adoring [Pg 411] of the same may be prohibited on pain of death to any of your subjects henceforth found so offending."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

Therefore she must often walk abroad; and to that end an occasion is found to go every day a pratling and gossiping to this and then to another place; in the mean while leaving her husband without a wife, and the family without a mistris.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

All hearts are attuned to thee— All pulses beat with thine ebb and flow To the rhyme of Eternity!
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

There is a form of it which is applied only to express some special purpose or conceit , which was used of old by philosophers to express any point of reason more sharp and subtle than the vulgar, and, nevertheless, now and at all times these allusive parabolical poems do retain much life and vigour because—note it,—note that because,—that two-fold because , because REASON CANNOT be so SENSIBLE, nor EXAMPLES SO FIT.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

He says that Mao-shan is one island, not a group of islands; it is not proved that the country of the Lo ch'a is the Nicobar Islands; the name of Lo-hing-man , Naked Barbarians, is, contrary to Schlegel's opinion, given to the Nicobar as well as to the Andaman people; the name of Andaman appears in Chinese for the first time during the thirteenth century in Chao Ju-kwa under the form Yen-t'o-man ; Chao Ju-kwa specifies that going from Lambri ( Sumatra ) to Ceylon, it is an unfavourable wind which makes ships drift towards these islands; on the other hand, texts show that the Ts'ui-lan islands were on the usual route from Sumatra to Ceylon.—Gerini, Researches , p. 396, considers that Ts'ui-lan shan is but the phonetic transcript of Tilan-chong Island, the north-easternmost of the Nicobars.—See Hirth and Rockhill's Chau Ju-kwa , p. 12n.—Sansk.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

Add new-fallen snow in the proportion of a teacupful to a pint of milk.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius

One of the Marathas had somehow possessed himself of a tom tom, and proved himself an excellent performer on that weird instrument.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

It is the antithesis of the Anglo-Saxon scheme; but as both the Anglo-Saxon and the Teuton are prospering, there must be good in both methods.
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

And till Schyr Amer then said he; [†] ‘Schir, giff that yhe will trow to me, ‘Yhe sall nocht ische thaim till assaile, ‘Till thai ar purvayt in bataill.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour