There is a famous question discussed in one of the earlier Dialogues of Plato (Protagoras; Arist.
— from The Republic by Plato

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

37 B. The Dream of Propertius Propertius iii. 3. 1 133 A. Capua aspires to rival Rome Horace, Epod. xvi.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I would have, on the side of the 246 banquet in front, one only goodly room above stairs, of some forty foot high; and under it a room for a dressing or preparing place, at times of triumphs.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

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Similar taxes, though not quite so heavy, take place in the Milanese, in the states of Genoa, in the duchy of Modena, in the duchies of Parma, Placentia, and Guastalla, and the Ecclesiastical state.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A description of Paris, published in the middle of the fifteenth century, describes amongst the most splendid residences of the capital the hotels of Juvénal des Ursins ( Fig. 62 ), of Bureau de Dampmartin, of Guillaume Seguin, of Mille Baillet, of Martin Double, and particularly that of Jacques Duchié, situated in the Rue des Prouvaires, in which were collected at great cost collections of all kinds of arms, musical instruments, rare birds, tapestry, and works of art.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

It must be meant, too, that this recommendation is to carry some authority, and to be sanctioned by some penalty on those who disregard it; not indeed of fine and imprisonment, but of some degree of proscription, perhaps in public opinion.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

This country, still desirous of preserving peace, sent three Commissioners.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Mr Dorrit, on being informed by his elder daughter that she had accepted matrimonial overtures from Mr Sparkler, to whom she had plighted her troth, received the communication at once with great dignity and with a large display of parental pride; his dignity dilating with the widened prospect of advantageous ground from which to make acquaintances, and his parental pride being developed by Miss Fanny’s ready sympathy with that great object of his existence.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Distrust of Prussia paralysed the Court of Vienna, and some time elapsed before it came to terms with Russia.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Sed Jugurtha primo tantummodo belli moram redimebat, existimans sese aliquid interim Romae pretio aut gratia effecturum; postea vero quam participem negotii Scaurum accepit, in maximam spem adductus recuperandae pacis, statuit cum eis de omnibus pactionibus praesens agere.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

Attention is specially directed to this by an incident recorded in the second expedition for the discovery of Peru preparatory to its conquest.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

All that is wanted is a common ground on which other persons similarly situated can meet and arrange their mutually advantageous transactions, and this ground is to be found in The Bazaar , Exchange and Mart , which practically brings all the United Kingdom to one market place, and thus, let a person be in never so remote a district, he has not the least difficulty in disposing of or procuring every description of personal property expeditiously and at a trifling expense.
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

Not only acts, but the language of personal address as well, is governed by ideas of politeness which have fundamentally affected the structure of the language, by preventing the development of personal pronouns.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

“You have given a very good description of what, I daresay, our proposed picnic will be like,” said Mrs Maclean; “and I hope you will enjoy it as much as you did yours last year.
— from Norman Vallery; or, How to Overcome Evil with Good by William Henry Giles Kingston