—Corinthians, i. I.] He who is only a good man that men may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when ‘tis known; who will not do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men: is one from whom much service is not to be expected: “Credo ch ‘el reste di quel verno, cose Facesse degne di tener ne conto; Ma fur fin’ a quel tempo si nascose, Che non a colpa mia s’ hor ‘non le conto Perche Orlando a far l’opre virtuose Piu ch’a narrar le poi sempre era pronto; Ne mai fu alcun’ de’suoi fatti espresso, Se non quando ebbe
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The social habit of mind which impels us to make the life of our fellow-beings a burden to them where they differ from us even in such a thing as their choice of food, is sure to persist in our political organization and result in creating engines of coercion to crush every rational difference which is the sign of life.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

There is another and curious class of cases in which close external resemblance does not depend on adaptation to similar habits of life, but has been gained for the sake of protection.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Lucy put up the neatest little rosebud mouth to be kissed; everything about her was neat,–her little round neck, with the row of coral beads; her little straight nose, not at all snubby; her little clear eyebrows, rather darker than her curls, to match hazel eyes, which looked up with shy pleasure at Maggie, taller by the head, though scarcely a year older.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

—Después de haber residido un año en la Argentina habría cumplido con el requisito de residencia que impone esa nación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

V ARIANT : Abunda en. 9.—LA CALANDRIA: EL RUISEÑOR DE AMÉRICA (to the vocabulary section)
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Sin imitar las asperezas de su raza, se pulió con el refinamiento del progreso, revelando ternezas ingenuas y descubriendo bríos civilizadores invencibles y prodigiosos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A ver, a ver si completo Lets see, lets see if it has the whole contiene el rezo del coro. choir prayer all told.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

"Mais, ô Paris," he cries, "qui n'a pas admiré tes sombres paysages, tes échappées de lumière, tes culs-de-sac profonds et silencieux; qui n'a pas entendu tes murmures, entre minuit et deux heures du matin, ne connaît encore rien de ta vraie poésie, ni de tes bizarres et larges contrastes.
— from Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris by Orlo Williams

, says he, “Comme il faisoit une particuliere profession de la poesie , c’est en cette qualité qu’il a de plus severes censeurs, et receu des injustices plus signalées.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

p. 527), that the temperate zones are ‘favorables à l'exercice complet et régulier des phénomènes vitaux.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Dans ces circonstances, en raison de l’état d’esprit qu’elles révèlent chez les indigènes, en raison de leur caractère impressionnable et de leur désir naturel de se soustraire à la charge de l’impôt, il n’était pas douteux que les conclusions auxquelles arriverait le Consul ne seraient pas autres que celles de son Rapport.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

det cyricsceattum, et rectam decimam suam, . . .
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

A tiny schooner, the Equator , Captain Edwin Reid, dear to myself from the memories of a six months’ cruise, lived out upon the high seas the fury of that tempest which had piled with wrecks the harbour of Apia, found a refuge in Pango-Pango, and arrived at last in the desolated port with a welcome and lucrative cargo of pigs.
— from A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson

229 to 256 Preliminary considerations— winding diagrams and winding tables —lap and wave winding—angular pitch or spread of drum coils—parallel or lap winding —series or wave winding —double-windings—Siemens winding—objection to Siemens winding— chord winding —multiplex windings—number of brushes required—number of armature circuits— equalizer rings — drum winding requirements .
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 02 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

This capitalistic economy remains divided into a developed industrial north, dominated by private companies, and a less developed, welfare-dependent agricultural south, with 20% unemployment.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To these the biologist retorts with comments upon their falsity, and with the conviction that since Spain, even allowing for the anti-eugenic labours of the Inquisition, has not been subjected to the only process which can ensure real degeneration—viz., the consistent and stringent selection of the worst—she is yet capable of regeneration.
— from Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

It has never seemed to me that people who look noble and feel noble when they are doing right, can ever really do it.
— from The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want by Gerald Stanley Lee