Mr Burd points out that this passage is imitated directly from Cicero's "De Officiis": "Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim; cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum; confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

It is of a rare quality against all sorts of cold poison, to be taken as there is cause; it provokes sweat.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Here was heroism at its last and loftiest possibility, its utmost summit; this was challenging death in the open field unarmed, with all the odds against the challenger, no reward set upon the contest, and no admiring world in silks and cloth of gold to gaze and applaud; and yet the king’s bearing was as serenely brave as it had always been in those cheaper contests where knight meets knight in equal fight and clothed in protecting steel.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

"Young Mr. Richard Carstone is present?" said the Lord Chancellor, glancing towards him.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It was not gold, as to my charge thou lay'st, That wrought with me: thou know'st the Magistrates 850 And Princes of my countrey came in person, Sollicited, commanded, threatn'd, urg'd, Adjur'd by all the bonds of civil Duty And of Religion, press'd how just it was, How honourable, how glorious to entrap A common enemy, who had destroy'd Such numbers of our Nation: and the Priest Was not behind, but ever at my ear, Preaching how meritorious with the gods It would be to ensnare an irreligious 860 Dishonourer of Dagon: what had I To oppose against such powerful arguments?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

'I call it pie,' said I, using a technical term of typography.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain INNATE PRINCIPLES; some primary notions, KOIVAI EVVOIAI, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man; which the soul receives in its very first being, and brings into the world with it.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Cost in £ [pounds sterling] 6 100 35,553 213,318 12 90 29,886 358,632 12 80 23,638 283,656 43 70 17,785 764,755 35 60 14,197 496,895 40 50 10,606 424,240 45 40 7,558 340,110 58 20 3,710 215,180 85 Sloops, bombs and fireships, one with another, at } 2,000 170,000 ------------ Cost 3,266,786 Remains for Guns 233,214 ------------ 3,500,000 117 No country on the globe is so happily situated, or so internally capable of raising a fleet as America.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

But your discretions better can persuade Than I am able to instruct or teach; And, therefore, as we hither came in peace, So let us still continue peace and love.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[5653] Mertila, in Aristaenetus, swore she would never love Pamphilus again, and did moderate her passion, so long as he was absent; but the next time he came in presence, she could not contain, effuse amplexa attrectari se sinit , &c., she broke her vow, and did profusely embrace him.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But when I saw the Chinese I positively started, for he was certainly the ugliest man I had ever seen.
— from The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Amidosulphonic acid crystallizes in prisms, slightly soluble in water, and is a stable compound.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The spectacle of that heavy German Muse, with her feet crammed into pointed slippers, executing, with incredible conscientiousness, now the stately measure of a Versailles minuet, and now the spritely steps of a Parisian jig, would be either ludicrous or pathetic—one hardly knows which—were it not so certainly neither the one nor the other, but simply dreary with an unutterable dreariness, from which the eyes of men avert themselves in shuddering dismay.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

[60] Through October the Nile at Cairo is practically stationary, and falls rapidly in November.
— from The Nile in 1904 by Willcocks, William, Sir

A building that protects the workers from the elements and affords conveniences in packing serves the purpose.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

St. Giles’s Church occupied, of course, its present site, and the ‘ports,’ or gates which closed the High Street towards Holyrood, had turrets for supporters.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

You no be angry case I ’peak so plain.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

[32] See this and other cases in point set forth in an amusing article on "Literary Mishaps," in Hedderwick's Miscellany, part ii.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton