Neque enim solum nobis divites esse volumus, sed liberis, propinquis, amicis maximeque rei publicae.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

ANT: Clear, defend, eulogize, vindicate, shelter, shield, praise, laud, extol, uphold.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Qui altero genere iniustitiae vacant, in alterum incurrunt; deserunt enim vitae societatem, quia nihil conferunt in eam studii, nihil operae, nihil facultatum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He seldom exercises each selected character in some peculiar and fitting manner; he feeds a long and a short-beaked pigeon on the same food; he does not exercise a long-backed or long-legged quadruped in any peculiar manner; he exposes sheep with long and short wool to the same climate; does not allow the most vigorous males to struggle for the females; he does not rigidly destroy all inferior animals, but protects during each varying season, as far as lies in his power, all his productions.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

All this makes the brightest page of many a life, the only bright page in the thin biography of many a human animal; while if the beasts could speak they would give us, no doubt, endless ver sions of the only joy in which, as we may fancy, the blood of the universe flows consciously through their hearts.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

(dijo el viejo, sentándose a mi lado):
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythus, und Sitte.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Note 13 ( return ) [ When Pompey, using or abusing the right of conquest, entered into the Holy of Holies, it was observed with amazement, "Nulli intus Deum effigie, vacuam sedem et inania arcana."
— 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

I do, early, vertuous Somerset, And pray, thy ioyes as lasting bee, as great.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

He did everything very secretly.
— from Stories of American Life and Adventure by Edward Eggleston

Ah you calletta , you strumpet , ta Matressa Doretie este, vous surprius come say your pater noster, car vous est mort par ma foy 1790 Do.
— from The Scottish History of James the Fourth 1598 by Robert Greene

Note 49 ( return ) [ Reges ex nobilitate, duces ex virtute sumunt.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

446 Dutch, English volunteers serve with, i. 141 ; war with English, 295 ; hamper Marlborough, 402 , 412-15 , 455 , 517 ; practically responsible for his fall, 533 ; reluctant to co-operate with English in Seven Years' War, ii. 83 ; their colonial defeat in India, 456 , 460 East India Company, first established, ii. 169 ; their settlements in 1701, 172 ; [615] military negligence of, 180 Edgcumbe, Commodore, ii. 292 Edinburgh, surrender of to Cromwell, i. 245 Edmunds, Sir William, i. 160 Edward I., i. 16 Edward II., i. 21 Edward III., i. 19 , 21 ; first campaign in France, 33 ; growth of army under,
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

As she approached the door, every voice seemed employed in eager talk; and, as she opened it, she observed earnest separate parties formed round the room; but the moment that she appeared, every one broke off abruptly from what he or she was saying, and a completely dead silence ensued.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 1 of 5) by Fanny Burney

Tunc dixi ei verba supradicta.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt