Having obtained permission to choose his mode of death 981 , he wrote notes to his father, containing corrections of some of his verses, and, having made a full meal, allowed a physician to open the veins in his arm 982 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Devil with Devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men onely disagree Of Creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly Grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmitie, and strife 500 Among themselves, and levie cruel warres, Wasting the Earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes anow besides, That day and night for his destruction waite.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Devil with Devil damn’d Firm concord holds, men onely disagree Of Creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly Grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmitie, and strife Among themselves, and levie cruel warres, Wasting the Earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes anow besides, That day and night for his destruction waite.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

For as Sophocles said he had first toned down the pompous style of Æschylus, then his harsh and over-artificial method, and had in the third 126 place changed his manner of diction, a most important point and one that is most intimately connected with the character, so those who go in for philosophy, when they have passed from flattering and artificial discourses to such as deal with character and emotion, are beginning to make genuine and modest progress in virtue.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds; men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace, and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

It seemed to those philosophers who criticized his mode of discussion that his purpose was to deny completely both of two self-contradictory propositions—which is absurd.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[4965] Neither is it any wonder, if we but consider how many other diseases closely, and as suddenly are caught by infection, plague, itch, scabs, flux, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

His daughter Violanta was married to Lionel Duke of Clarence, the youngest son to Edward the Third, King of England, but, ad ejus adventum tantae opes tam admirabili liberalitate profusae sunt, ut opulentissimorum regum splendorem superasse videretur , he was welcomed with such incredible magnificence, that a king's purse was scarce able to bear it; for besides many rich presents of horses, arms, plate, money, jewels, &c., he made one dinner for him and his company, in which were thirty-two messes and as much provision left, ut relatae a mensa dapes decem millibus hominum sufficerent , as would serve ten thousand men: but a little after Lionel died, novae nuptae et intempestivis conviviis operam dans , &c., and to the duke's great loss, the solemnity was ended.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

You can hang me, or do what you like with me, but you cannot punish me as I have been punished already.
— from The Adventure of the Cardboard Box by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the earlier stages of Spanish colonial history meetings of delegates (procurators) of the town councils, in imitation of the national cortes of Spain, were not uncommon.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

I then read as follows, "Tell the inhabitants of your earth, that there is a love truly conjugial having myriads of delights, scarce any of which are as yet known to the world; but they will be known, when the church betroths herself to her Lord, and is married."
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

Then he made his way forward to walk by the side of his master's litter and encourage the carriers with that mixture of light badinage and heavy swearing which composed his method of dealing with the natives.
— from With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

When the pilgrims have landed at Jaffa they hire camels, horses, mules, or donkeys, and make their way as well as they can to the Holy City.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

"I could have married once," declared Miss Yard.
— from A Drake by George! by John Trevena

Bruce, then, had already chosen his ground, and commenced his measures of defence.
— from King Robert the Bruce by Alexander Falconer Murison

You may pry into his pigsty, investigate his stable, criticise his mode of drainage, disapprove of his rotation of crops, inquire into the wages which he pays, and decidedly object to his turnips.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various