[139] And Robert Greene (1558?-1592) plays the chief part in the early development of romantic comedy, and gives us some excellent scenes of English country life in plays like Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

To my mind those of us who can best endure the good and evil of life are the best educated; hence it follows that true education consists less in precept than in practice.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

713 "Locus Xenophontis est Cyropæd.," l. i. p. 52.— Reiske. 714 Euripides, "Orestes," 258.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Et certe longe ibi poera severior constituta est; illius quippe impietatis capitale supplicium est."
— 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

Within these sullen squares each clan lives in perpetual siege.
— from Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson

Then, a day or two later, Conductor Egerton came limping into Pretoria from the scene of the disaster at Bronker’s Spruit, with the colours of the 94th Regiment tied round his middle, and such a tale to tell that the blood went to her heart and seemed to stagnate there as she listened.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

It relates the adventures of two lovable English children lost in Paris, and is just wonderful enough to pleasantly wring the youthful heart.
— from Slow and Sure: The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

It relates the adventures of two lovable English children lost in Paris, and is just wonderful enough to pleasantly wring the youthful heart.”— New York Tribune .
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade

[598] “I only inveighed against abuses and against the godless collectors of alms and [indulgence] commissioners from whom even Canon Law itself protects the Pope.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

I have the less need to expand further this inspiring section of my subject, seeing that I have been anticipated to some extent by a brother author, who, under the pseudonym of "Rolf Boldrewood," has presented to us, in lively and fitting style, a most charming picture of early colonial life, its pleasant hospitalities, plus the Attic salt of no small proportion of the bounteous tables.
— from Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth

Kerseymeres, cords, and velveteens; Irish linens and common lawns cut into pieces of eight yards each, in imitation of the French bretagnes and estopillas; coarse linen in pieces of about thirty yards, imitating the German platillas; and fine Scotch cambrics, as well as table linen, sheeting, &c., meet a great demand.
— from Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America (Vol 1 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

“Well, if people with good eyes cannot live in peace, how am I to live amicably, with my bad one?”
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

So also in Italy we have had disquisitions ``on the futility of repression,'' and in Germany it has been held that ``existing criminal law is powerless against crime.''
— from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri

As he passed through Aberdeen, Burns met Bishop Skinner, a Bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church; and when he learnt that the Bishop's father, the author of the song of Tulloch-gorum , and The Ewie wi' the crookit horn , and other Scottish songs, was still alive, an aged Episcopalian clergyman, living in primitive simplicity in a but and a ben at Lishart, near Peterhead, and that on his way to Aberdeen he had passed near the place without knowing it, Burns expressed the greatest regret at having missed seeing the author of songs he so greatly admired.
— from Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp