“I had the same idea myself, but I cried off, and I don’t think you’ll succeed, as Lord Baltimore offered them forty apiece; that is two hundred guineas in all, and the bargain has fallen through because they want the money to be paid in advance.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As for triumphs, masks, feasts, weddings, funerals, capital executions, and such shows, men need not to be put in mind of them; yet they are not to be neglected.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

No account has been preserved of his funeral; but probably it was private.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

When he had elevated his mind to the sublime contemplation of the first self-existent, necessary cause of the universe, the Athenian sage was incapable of conceiving how the simple unity of his essence could admit the infinite variety of distinct and successive ideas which compose the model of the intellectual world; how a Being purely incorporeal could execute that perfect model, and mould with a plastic hand the rude and independent chaos.
— 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

The bodies prone in them seemed startled out of their torpor by his movement.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Moreover the institution of the Olympic truce seems to be the idea of a man of gentle and peaceful temperament, some however say, according to Hermippus, that Lykurgus had at first no communication with Iphitus, but happened to be present in the crowd; that he then heard a voice as it were of a man behind him blaming him and wondering why he did not encourage his fellow-citizens to take part in the festival.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

I am an old Fellow, and extremely troubled with the Gout; but having always a strong Vanity towards being pleasing in the Eyes of Women, I never have a Moment's Ease, but I am mounted in high-heel'd Shoes with a glased Wax-leather Instep.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Note 80 ( return ) [ The most copious and original account of this holy war is Galfridi à Vinisauf, Itinerarium Regis Anglorum Richardi et aliorum in Terram Hierosolymorum, in six books, published in the iid volume of Gale's Scriptores Hist.
— 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

Some had been put into plaster casts for coxalgia or for Potts’ disease.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Moreover, besides being corrupted ourselves, we bring poison into the lives of those surrounding us.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A prayer under her invocation has been already sanctioned by Pius IX.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

If you want to get the idea in a miniature way, take a board, put it partially across some little stream and see how the water runs up on the board and curves around the end of it.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

The better plan is, instead of endeavouring to prevent him from turning, with the left hand, to pull him sharply with the right, until his head has made a complete circle, and he finds, to his astonishment, that he is precisely in the place from which he started.
— from The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual by Anonymous

Strain the juice of six oranges and add to it a cupful of sugar; now put the half pint of unwhipped cream into a double boiler, pour into it the well-beaten yolks of six eggs, stirring until it begins to thicken, then add the gelatine.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

"We have two pleasant rooms looking out upon the court-yard; they shall be put in order for you, if you would like to occupy them."
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

[303] (2) by taking the Previous, General, and Special examinations of the ordinary degree [304] (3) by {186} being ‘allowed the ordinary degree,’ which may happen when a man fails to be placed in any class of a tripos, but when his work is allowed to count as tantamount to {187} the examinations of the ordinary degree.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

Every hour counted, and each coloured by care, the past turned to with the vain hope of forgetting the present, and the future no longer offering the bright prospect it once unfolded!
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

“What makes your grandfather have them cut so long, they can never be put into a cart?” said James.
— from The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers by Elijah Kellogg

The blue pine is also of commercial value.
— from The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir