Tristan le fils au Roy Meliadus de Leonnoie que d'autres, porcequ'ilz furent sans faille les meilleurs chevaliers qui à ce temps furent en terre; et li Maistres en dira de ces deux pluseurs choses et pluseurs nouvelles que l'en treuvera escript en tous les autres livres; et porce que le Maistres les trouva escript au Livre d'Engleterre."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To enlarge farther, I may well presume to aver, that there are no considerable exploits performed, no useful arts invented, but what I am the respective author and manager of: as first, what is more lofty and heroical than war?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Le développement attendu d'internet est une panacée qui possède suffisamment d'évidence pour ne pas y insister: il ne s'agit pas d'une mode, mais d'une révolution des moyens de communication qui présente des avantages objectifs tellement forts qu'on ne voit pas, sauf nouveau saut technologique inattendu, comment elle pourrait ne pas se répandre.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Chi fa quel ch' e' può, non fa mal bene —He who does all he can do never does well.
— 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.

Quod paucas vidit pulchriores quas non concupierit, et paucissimas non concupierit quas non violarit , He saw very few maids that he did not desire, and desired fewer whom he did not enjoy: nothing so familiar amongst them, 'tis most of their business: Sardanapalus, Messalina, and Joan of Naples, are not comparable to [4779] meaner men and women; Solomon of old had a thousand concubines; Ahasuerus his eunuchs and keepers; Nero his Tigillinus panders, and bawds; the Turks, [4780] Muscovites, Mogors, Xeriffs of Barbary, and Persian Sophies, are no whit inferior to them in our times.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Jude had declaimed steadily ahead, and was continuing: " Crucifixus etiam pro nobis: sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Exact disposition, just thought, correct elocution, polished numbers, may have been found in a thousand; but this poetic fire, this "vivida vis animi," in a very few.
— from The Iliad by Homer

VII, 520 D | Itaque videndum est, ne non satis sit id, quod apud Platonem est in philosophos dictum, quod in veri investigatione versentur quodque ea, quae plerique vehementer expetant, [25] de quibus inter se digladiari soleant, contemnant et pro nihilo putent, propterea iustos esse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But, to return from this digression: as far back as the thirteenth century, every person not having a greater annual revenue in land than one hundred pence, was obligated to have in his possession a bow and arrows, with other arms offensive and defensive; and all such as had no possessions, but could afford to purchase arms, were commanded to have a bow with sharp arrows, if they dwelt without the royal forests, and a bow with round-headed arrows, if they resided within the forests.
— from The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Joseph Strutt

These two arguments, as he who reflects can easily perceive, not only corroborate each other, but their respective proving force is such, that, if considered separately, each one is sufficient to peremptorily prove that the Partialist doctrines are not taught in the Scriptures.
— from Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines by John Claudius Pitrat

7] of Cadwallader Colden Esq.; published not long before the commencement of our Review.
— from Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758: A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes by Mary Cochrane Rogers

The “Tam O’Shanter” is the property of Roswell L. Colt , Esq., Patterson, N. J. The statue of Burns, also from his chisel, was an excellent specimen of his skill.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various

dum enim Rex Salomon primum in illo templo per Dei iussionem, et Dauidis patris sui commissionem ædificasset, exorauit præsente cuncto populo Israel, vt quicúnque illic Deum pro iusta causa rogaret audiretur; et Dominus monstrauit exauditionis signum per nebulam de coelo emissam, proùt narrat historia veritatis 3.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

At any rate, when in 1751 von Hundt officially founded his new Templar Order under the name of the Stricte Observance , the unfortunate Charles Edward played no part at all in the scheme.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The murderous night at Castle Eger progressed now rapidly from scene to scene.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Still Captain Ellice paid no attention to her, but stood with compressed lips beside the man at the wheel, gazing alternately at the sails of his vessel and at the windward horizon, where he fancied he saw indications that led him to hope the breeze would fail ere long.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne