Centauri, Lapithæque, et Tantalus, atque Prometheus, Et Nephele, veluti nube soluta suâ,— Hi pereunt omnes; alterque laboribus ipse Conficis Alcides Hercule majus opus.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

[ Contents ] Chapter LI Exchanges The bashful Linares was anxious and ill at ease.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

No man can lose either the past or the future, for how can a man be deprived of what he has not?
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

El verdadero criminal lo eres tú, tú....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The strife of dialectic is a necessity of reason, and we cannot but wish that it had been conducted long ere this with that perfect freedom which ought to be its essential condition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

No great literature, nor any like style of behavior or oratory, or social intercourse or household arrangements, or public institutions, or the treatment by bosses of employ'd people, nor executive detail, or detail of the army and navy, nor spirit of legislation or courts, or police or tuition or architecture, or songs or amusements, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American standards.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"That cities, like every thing else, rose from very humble beginnings.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The colonies left exposed to the ravages of a domestic, or the conquest of a foreign enemy."—Gloomy enough, God knows.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Her spiritual or carnal love embraced the young adventurer, whom she adopted as her son.
— 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

"What is this?" demanded Cadet Lieutenant Edwards, though betraying no more than official curiosity in his tone.
— from Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point; Or, Two Chums in the Cadet Gray by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

[This extremely concise expression is intelligibly paraphrased by Chia Lin: "even though we have constructed neither wall nor ditch."
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

At the same time, an observant Hollander named Aersens van Sommerdyk visited Spain, and stayed in the capital long enough to write an account of the social and political condition of the Court as it appeared to an intelligent foreigner; whilst shortly afterwards the sparkling narrative of life in Madrid, written by the Frenchman Bonnecasse, came to confirm the impressions of the Spaniard and the Dutchman.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

The little Scottish nurse took care that they did not talk very much, and so the partners found their visits to No. 9 hardly what one would call lively excursions, though it is true they took a certain pleasure in calling there, for Mr Evans quickly came to the conclusion that the trained nurse was "a nice little thing," while Mr Deadwood, after talking to Dora, would fall into a strangely sentimental and melancholy mood.
— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell

Keep away from disease germs all that you reasonably and possibly can; but don't forget that the best protection against infectious diseases, in the long run, is {289} a strong, vigorous, healthy body that can literally "eat them alive."
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson

Lastly , A great cause of this nation's misery, is that Egyptian bondage of cruel, oppressing, covetous landlords, expecting that all who live under them should make bricks without straw, who grieve and envy when they see a tenant of their own in a whole coat, or able to afford one comfortable meal in a month, by which the spirits of the people are broken, and made for slavery; the farmers and cottagers, almost through the whole kingdom, being to all intents and purposes as real beggars as any of those to whom we give our charity in the streets.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift