Also , Bulletin des Sciences Pharmacologiques, 1905, XII: 152.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But in his appeals to the Spanish conscience and in his endeavors to educate his countrymen he showed himself as practical as he was in his arguments, ever ready to concede nonessentials in name and means if by doing so progress could be made.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Chacun doit balayer devant sa propre porte —Everybody 30 ought to sweep before his own door.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Not a single domestic animal can be named which has not in some country drooping ears; and the view suggested by some authors, that the drooping is due to the disuse of the muscles of the ear, from the animals not being much alarmed by danger, seems probable.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

“The Forme of Cury,” a Roll of Antient English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that “best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings,” Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge, 1780.—M. B.] where we found my father and brother very well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They take the initiative in breaking off the connection, and by doing so prove that they have “hearts of gold.”
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Beaumarchais had long possessed a reputation in certain circles in Paris for his wit and musical talents, and at the theatres for dramas more or less indifferent, when his "Barbier de Seville" procured him a higher position among dramatic writers.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Bernardin de Saint Pierre has the very excellent and pertinent remark that to be sparing in regard to food is a means of health; in regard to society, a means of tranquillity— la diète des ailmens nous rend la santé du corps, et celle des hommes la tranquillité de l'âme.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

The French School at Rome, the Austrian Institute, the Prussian Institute, the Polish Mission, the Institute of the "Goerresgesellschaft," Belgian, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and other scholars, have performed, and are performing, cataloguing work of considerable extent in the archives of the Vatican.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

ch'e` tanto bella da' suoi piedi e` colei che l'aperse e che la punse.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

Don Julián nobly repels this suggestion as insulting; but Don Severo persists that only by such a course may the family name be rendered unimpeachable upon the public tongue.
— from The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

The largest church in Rome next to St. Peter's was the Basilica di San Paolo fuori delle Mura, on the road to Ostia, burnt a few years since.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

In a letter to Louvois, dated Oct. 15/25. 1689, Avaux says: "Je ne puis m'empescher de vous dire qu'il est brave de sa personne, a ce que l'on dit mais que c'est un aussy mechant officie, qu'il en ayt, et qu'il n'a pas le sens commun.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron