A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms: but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Further, an infinitely fine analogy both in the whole and in the parts of these forms, and running through them all ( unité de plan ), is established, and thus they may be compared to innumerable variations on a theme which is not given.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Sometimes at these Shrovetide or Lenten ceremonies the resurrection of the pretended dead person is enacted.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Je crois très important que les futurs protocoles de transmission permettent une transmission parfaite de ces aspects - ce qui n'est pas forcément simple (dans les futures évolutions de l'HTML, ou des protocoles IP, etc.).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

4. dē ... poterant , in English, all regarded him as a very promising youth; but what does the Latin say?
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

By which in our brief life we are so spurred, 50 Ere downward plunged in evil case for aye!
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

That night the housekeeper burned to ashes all the books that were in the yard and in the whole house; and some must have been consumed that deserved preservation in everlasting archives, but their fate and the laziness of the examiner did not permit it, and so in them was verified the proverb that the innocent suffer for the guilty.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Now, this small uncivilized nation has arms in its possession, and alone knows how to use them: for, indeed, the pacific temper of the community increases the danger to which a democratic people is exposed from the military and turbulent spirit of the army.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And it was to the judgment of the Duke and M. le Veillard in France, as it was to that of Vaughan and Dr. Price in England, as we shall see, that he left the important question as to whether any of the Autobiography should be published, and, if so, how much.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

"There are three distinct parties in England at this moment: the Government party, the Revolutionary party, and an intermedial party,—which is only opposed to the war on account of the expense it entails, and the harm it does commerce and manufacture.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

For such defense preparedness is essential.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

She had fascinated, she had stung me, and had returned to her proper shape, gliding from me after inflicting the mortal wound, and instilling deadly poison into every pore; but her form lost none of its original brightness by the change of character, but was all glittering, beauteous, voluptuous grace.
— from Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt

Motion , if the objects be similar in all but one part, which occupies a slightly different portion in each presentation.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams

Directly he finds that such causes are beyond his control, he reckons them superior to himself, and, being incapable of abstracting them, he personifies them; he turns them into deities; polytheism is established; and the earliest creed of mankind assumes a form which can never be altered, as long as men remain in this condition of pristine ignorance.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Now De Pretis is essentially a man of the people, and I am not; therefore he saw no objection in the way of a match between a great singer and a noble damigelia.
— from A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

But it is one of the most difficult poems in English literature to read; and I shall not try to quote much from it.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

Meanwhile the devisee died, penniless, in Europe, and on Wednesday Abrams, the lawyer who holds the mortgage, is to take possession of everything—and we—we are to go—I know not whither."
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various