Quod crimen eius modi est ut, cum primum ad me delatum est, usurum me illo
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Indulge genio: carpamus dulcia; nostrum est Quod vivis; cinis, et manes, et fabula fies.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A perfect type of head, if such could exist, might excite our wonder, but would leave us cold.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The quantity of industry which any capital can employ, must evidently be equal to the number of workmen whom it can supply with materials, tools, and a maintenance suitable to the nature of the work.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Although he hated the Greeks as much as any Persian, yet he was so overpowered by the flatteries of Alkibiades, that he in his turn repaid him with compliments even more excessive.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Wheat was planted at an early period; and after the introduction of Christianity, every monastic establishment had its mill.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

A, but a list of their τίτλοι preceded each Gospel: the so-called Ammonian sections stand in the margin, but not at present the Eusebian canons; though, since lines of the text written in vermilion have been thoroughly washed out, the canons (for which that colour was commonly employed) may easily have shared the same fate ( see p. 61 ).
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Capt. Eppingwell makes exit.
— from Scorn of Women: A Play In Three Acts by Jack London

If ever a man wore the expression of a demon, the principal of the Parkville Liberal Institute did at that moment; and it was patent to me that, unless I could effect my escape, my trials and troubles had but just commenced.
— from Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student by Oliver Optic

What shall I say of the new peas, new beans, rare cucumbers, early melons, extraordinary potatoes?
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

[15] But as other Evils did afterwards increase in the Church ( partly by such Education ) so this insensibly grew up with them, tho not to that degree, as that any Counsel I have ever heard or Read of has to this day taken off those Anathema's; yet after this the Church so far declined, that Witchcraft became a Principal, Ecclesiastical Engine ( as also that of Heresy was ) to root up all that stood in their way; and besides the ways of Tryal, that we have still in practice, they invented some, which were peculiar to themselves; which whenever they were minded to improve against any Orthodox believer, they could easily make Effectual: That Deluge of Blood which that Scarlet Whore has to answer for, shed under this notion, how amazing is it.
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Calef

The slightest slip or a chance encounter might easily reverse the situation and turn the tables against him.
— from The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon

Suus cuique est mos —Every one has his own 15 way of it.
— 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.

'But this consideration—that is the consideration "that it is the custom in France , to call every man, even a stranger, by the name of any manor or seigneury , he may chance to come in possession of, tends to the total confusion of descents, so that surnames are no security,"—"for," he says, "a younger brother of a good family, having a manor left him by his father, by the name of which he has been known and honoured, cannot handsomely leave it; ten years after his decease, it falls into the hand of a stranger, who does the same.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon