Shall we then be satisfied in mathematics with the qualitas occulta of the circle that the segments of any two intersecting chords always contain equal rectangles?
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

El viajero que descienda a las playas cubanas y visite las poblaciones y las campiñas, así como el que hoy, después de treinta años de ausencia, se admira de cómo camina esta tierra privilegiada, envidiará no haber nacido bajo sus ceibas y sus palmas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

And there I left them coming forth, and I to the New Exchange, there to meet Mrs. Burroughs, and did take her in a carosse and carry elle towards the Park, kissing her..., but did not go into any house, but come back and set her down at White Hall, and did give her wrapt in paper for my Valentine’s gift for the last year before this, which I never did yet give her anything for, twelve half-crowns, and so back home and there to my office, where come a packet from the Downes from my brother Balty, who, with Harman, is arrived there, of which this day come the first news.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Tatlock, R.R. and Thomson, R.T. The analysis and composition of coffee, chicory, and coffee and chicory "essences."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Am I to understand that these men earn a livelihood by waiting about here, to perjure themselves before the judges of the land, at the rate of half a crown a crime?’ exclaimed Mr. Pickwick, quite aghast at the disclosure.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

In February following came a Chinese embassy, granting a port of the empire with which the Spaniards could trade.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

I cannot conceive, I cannot imagine, I cannot form any idea of French orators, and I doubt that they have ever had any or can have any now in the strict construction of the term orator, because we must not confuse the name orator with the words babbler and charlatan, for these can exist in any country, in all the regions of the inhabited world, among the cold and curt Englishmen as among the lively and impressionable Frenchmen.”
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Female flower sessile, solitary, axillary, larger than the male; calyx and corolla equal; staminodia 20–30, jointed at the base, forming a membranous corolla from the upper edge of which spring a few short filaments which support each a suboval sterile anther.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

By signs, the chief appointed certain Thugs to sit down in front of the travelers as if to wait upon them, others to sit down beside them and engage them in conversation, and certain expert stranglers to stand behind the travelers and be ready when the signal was given.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Note 65 ( return ) [ The policy and donations of Charlemagne are carefully examined by St. Marc, (Abrege, tom. i. p.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

He is certainly a curious example of the Unicornism to be found in almost every kingdom of animated nature.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

There was about Comely a certain ease and address, as well as personal attractiveness, which seemed to make society her natural sphere; while the shyness and plainness of Homely made the task of remaining at home congenial.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

When Alfonso had bathed in the ocean by Hercules' Pillars, rejoicing that at last he had traversed all Spain and touched the watery border; when he had established a garrison of more than twelve thousand daring men in the fortress of Aledo, in the very midst of the Moslem territories, whence they ruthlessly emerged to harry the whole country and commit every sort of savage outrage; when Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, "my Cid the Challenger," had established himself in Valencia with his Castilians, and laid waste the neighbouring lands; when it became clear to everyone that Alfonso meant nothing less than the reconquest of all Spain, and the extermination of all Moslems—then at last the Mohammedan princes awoke to their danger, and began to take measures for their defence.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

7 s. 6 d. —— Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

Such teachers as these would thus get themselves virtuous successors, and transmit from age to age, to generations to come, the experience and talents of rulers, the courage and virtue of citizens, and common emulation in all to live and die for their country.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mrs Avenel, in an awfully stiff, clean, and Calvinistical cap, and a gray dress, every fold of which bespoke respectability and staid repute—stood erect on the floor, and, fixing on the Parson a cold and cautious eye, said— "You do the like of us great honour, Mr Dale—take a chair!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

Not that all the figures are very good; those to the left of the composition are commonplace enough; nor are the Christ and the giver of the feast at all remarkable; but the ten or dozen figures of guests and attendants at the right-hand end of the work are as good as anything of their kind can be, and remind me so strongly of Tabachetti that I cannot doubt they were done by someone who was indirectly influenced by that great sculptor’s work.
— from The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler

If the Pope were removed from Rome, or if a lay government were established—the two hypotheses are practically identical—the number of the clergy would undoubtedly be much diminished, a large number of the convents and clerical endowments would be suppressed, and the present generation of priests would be heavy sufferers.
— from Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi