Two Gent. of Verona , v. 4. Were man not a poor hungry dastard, and even much of a blockhead withal, he would cease criticising his victuals to such extent, and criticise himself rather, what he does with his victuals.
— 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.

Nouns of the fourth declension are either masculine or neuter.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

We are in no want of words to denominate adequately every mode of representation, without the necessity of encroaching upon terms which are proper to others.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Which fig notwithstanding (plucked by some other's, not his own, guilt) had some Manichaean saint eaten, and mingled with his bowels, he should breathe out of it angels, yea, there shall burst forth particles of divinity, at every moan or groan in his prayer, which particles of the most high and true God had remained bound in that fig, unless they had been set at liberty by the teeth or belly of some "Elect" saint!
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

To express what we feel so keenly, and in such detail, at every moment of the day, is a task we take upon our shoulders because we have read novels; for if we were natural, we would never undertake anything so irksome.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Liverseege died after eighteen months of it, and the man before went off in six weeks, I hear.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Thus also we should walk about among men as their discoverers and explorers, meting out to them good and evil in order that we may unveil the peculiar beauty which is seen with some in the sunshine, in others under thunder-clouds, or with others again only in twilight and under a rainy sky.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy 510 things.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The Gunners, as usual, behaved with the utmost gallantry, but they too came under the same enfilading fire as the Dorsets and every man of the detachment except Captain Boscawen fell either killed or wounded.
— from The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest, Lord

It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James's phrase and story of "The Great Good Place," twinkled across my mind, and passed and left no light.
— from In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In the second place, the Postmaster-General refused to receive deputations from those employees not directly interested in the question at stake, refused to recognize officials who were not also employees of the Department, and exercised more or less control over the meetings of employees.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

The date of the year for the capture of Sardis is destroyed, and cannot be even approximately restored, as the nearest dates are either mutilated or destroyed.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

In this province, taken as a whole, it does not so much speak doctrinally, as enforce measures of discipline.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

This fallacy depends upon the double and equivocal meaning of yours — one of its different explanations being treated as if it were the only one.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

Cùm, augustissimus, et inuictissimus princeps, Zuldan Murad Can, Turcici regni Dominator potentissimus imperiíque Orientis Monarcha, foedus, amicitiámque nobiscum percusserit, iurauerítque, (quam nos perpetuis futuris temporibus, quantum in nobis erit; inuiolatè seruare destinamus) ad eámque magis ornandam, illustrandámque concesserit idem augustissimus Imperator
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

There was not the slightest difficulty in devising an efficient means of pressing a trigger with a reduced pull by opening the door.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

It curls through a thousand roofs, the tiled roofs of the country, representing much humble comfort and many humble dinners, and every morning on the Maidan you may see ugly old women stooping to collect the material for it.
— from The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib by Sara Jeannette Duncan