This is abundantly sufficient to produce our present misfortune out of the former; but consider well, whether such an accusation does not suit all such young men, and may not be said of them all promiscuously; for nothing can hinder him that reigns, if he have children, and their mother be dead, but the father may have a suspicion upon all his sons, as intending some treachery to him; but a suspicion is not sufficient to prove such an impious practice.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Trust not for freedom to the Franks— They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords, and native ranks, The only hope of courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

That the opinion of the Platonists regarding the nature of body and soul is not so censurable as that of the Manichæans, but that even it is objectionable, because it ascribes the origin of vices to the nature of the flesh.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Your blindness and stupidity in not seeing the fat and luscious tidbits he snaps up from almost beneath your feet is of course a subject of wonder and disdain.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

And that such should be the case,—that the melancholy Walter should become enamoured of what seemed but a shadow, is not surprising in a man of his disposition.
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

Lucian , the celebrated Greek satirist, was born at Samosata, in northern Syria, about 120 A.D., and died about 200 A.D.
— from Through the Year with Famous Authors by Mabel Patterson

They saw the multitude seize him, and no legions came to rescue;—they saw him condemned, abused, crucified, buried; and so, in no sense of which they could conceive, was this he who should have redeemed Israel.
— from The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

Here indeed was the leaven of your low-country scum, for in all the broad Highlands wandering before and since I never saw the like!
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

“I have been undecided where to go at Easter,” wrote Miss Norreys, “but, among several invitations, none seems to promise me the quiet I really feel I need so surely as your very thoughtful one.
— from White Turrets by Mrs. Molesworth

In mingling primary with primary, if one colour does not compound well with the other, or is fugacious, the result is failure; but a secondary is not so easily affected by admixture: a green, for example, is seldom quite ruined by the injudicious addition of blue or yellow; and even if either of the latter be fugitive, the green will remain a green if originally durable.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

He is kind 103 enough to admit that they sometimes reduce recent dislocations, disperse a bursa, and succeed in nervous so-called hysterical joints and spines.
— from The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication by George Matthews Bennett

Now, if a man goes with his wife and family, it is obvious that the sum he will have to pay will be, if he have but a scanty income, no small consideration.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie