Naturelle, tom. v. p. 382-390, edition in 4to., Valmont de Bomare, Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Tremblemen de Terre, Pyrites,) Watson, (Chemical Essays, tom. i. p. 181—209.)]
— 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

According to the continual variation that ours has been subject to, up to this day, who can expect that its present form should be in use fifty years hence?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controls for confining each to its proper sphere.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is then that an overflowing wealth of multifarious forces and the most agile power of "free will" and lordly command exist together in perfect concord in one man; then the intellect is just as much at ease, or at home, in the senses as the senses are at ease or at home in it; and everything that takes place in the latter must give rise to extraordinarily subtle joys in the former.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Lampridius (Heliogab. v), “At Rome, his principal concern was to have emissaries everywhere, charged with seeking out men with huge members; that they might bring them to him so that he could enjoy their impressive proportions.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

ſe chiamaua s. martín de siuilla yo non li pote andare ꝓ che era tuto infiato per vna ferita de freza venenata che haueua nela fronte Jouan caruaio cõ Lo barizello tornorono indietro et ne diſcero como viſteno colui reſa nato ꝓ miracolo menare
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Every large city has its occupational suburbs like the Stockyards in Chicago, and its residence suburbs like Brookline in Boston, each of which has the size and the character of a complete separate town, village, or city, except that its population is a selected one.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But it was my wish also in this to avoid everything common, everything that is plain of itself, that has been said a hundred times, and is generally accepted; for my ambition was to write a book that would not be forgotten in two or three years, and which any one interested in the subject would at all events take up more than once.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“Classic” for reasons we do not know (Urbain Dubois, outstanding master of this period wrote “La Cuisine classique”) except that its precepts appeal as classical to our notion of eating.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Amongst sessile cirripedes, we discover evidence of much higher concentration even than in Pollicipes.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

This completed, color and form would be considered, each taking its proper place in the general scheme.
— from Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith

[19-99] Yet even as the principle of noninterference with racial patterns of the local community emerged intact from the lengthy controversy, exceptions to its practical application continued to multiply.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

He felt a certain compunction, even then, in presenting it to the severe and intensely respectable black [71] marble timepiece which recorded the flying hours of his domestic bliss.
— from Tourmalin's Time Cheques by F. Anstey

MARKHAM'S (Clements, E.) Travels in Peru and India, for the purpose of collecting Cinchona Plants, and introducing Bark into India.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

All complex codes and similar means of communication occupy much time, so they are not for spies to use in time of war, though one can employ them in peace time.
— from The German Spy System from Within by Anonymous

Mr. Cavendish examined this important point with his usual patient industry and acute discernment, and published the result in the Philosophical Transactions for 1783.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

[Pg 116] I call attention also to the case of the Wheeling Bridge, where Congress, under peculiar circumstances, exercised this identical power.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner