The … and Miss Lamb's favourite, 'Lady Blanche and the Abbess,' commonly called 'Vanitas et Modestia' (Campanella, los. ed.), for I foresee that this Dogma will occasion a considerable call for them—let them, therefore, be ready."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
Thus much of the Ecclesiastical History of Britain, and more especially of the English nation, as far as I could learn either from the writings of the ancients, or the tradition of our forefathers, or of my own knowledge, with the help of the Lord, I, Bede, 1041 the servant of Christ, and priest of the monastery of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, which is at Wearmouth and Jarrow, 1042 have set forth.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media —Where the end is lawful the means are also lawful.
— 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.
Appointment to office was at first by selection, followed by an examination to test proficiency; later was introduced the system of public competitive literary examinations for office, fully organized in the seventeenth century, and abolished in 1903, when official positions were thrown open to the graduates of colleges established on a modern basis.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
Nous avons mis le début de chaque livre en format PDF et pour quelques livres le texte intégral en ligne.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Gravioribus curis ludos et facetias aliquando interpone, jocos, et quae solent animum relaxare.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
For this place likewise the sweetness of his voice disqualified him; the dogs preferring the melody of his chiding to all the alluring notes of the huntsman, who soon became so incensed at it, that he desired Sir Thomas to provide otherwise for him, and constantly laid every fault the dogs were at to the account of the poor boy, who was now transplanted to the stable.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding
Where common labourers earn four or five shillings a-week, masons and bricklayers frequently earn seven and eight; where the former earn six, the latter often earn nine and ten; and where the former earn nine and ten, as in London, the latter commonly earn fifteen and eighteen.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
[27] A monastery and accompanying college, liberally endowed from Europe, was founded at Kaskaskia by Jesuit missionaries in the first quarter of the eighteenth century.—
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet
4, No. 2, SERIAL No. 102 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC. PLATE IV OLD CHINESE RUG CHINESE RUGS OLD CHINESE RUG Monograph Number Four in The Mentor Reading Course Length, eight feet four inches.
— from The Mentor: Chinese Rugs, Vol. 4, Num. 2, Serial No. 102, March 1, 1916 by John Kimberly Mumford
Often he was forced to guess what was below him, and, at a venture, drop himself down where he believed he would find a crevice large enough for his feet.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917
The queen can lay either fertilized or unfertilized eggs.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer
The ram had been looking at Eastern tourists and their cars long enough for the slow gaze of his eye to express not a kindred but the same contempt which smouldered in the stare of the Indians at Custer station, of the cow punchers at Billings, of every Rocky Mountain creature, indeed, beneath whose observation the Eastern
— from Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat by George Bird Grinnell
On ground floor coat closet is desirable; also tool cupboard or chest, large china cupboard, low enough for all china to be within reach.
— from Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922 by Marie Mattingly Meloney
[12] of the disk; a centre line extends from the base to the apex.
— from Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
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