symmetron d' an eiê to lepton houtô kai atmôdes, hôst' euthys eis pan morion helkomenon tou spermatos drosoeidôs mêdamou tên || 86 heautou paremphainein idean.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
add, "to expose oneself to the risks of war bareheaded is, it is said, a practice common to the Persians," which I regard as a commentator's note, if not an original marginal note of some early editor, possibly of the author himself.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon
y en el punto que
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
38.—EL «TRISTE» Y LA «VIDALITA» (to the vocabulary section) El «triste» que predomina en los pueblos del norte, es un canto frijio, plañidero, natural al hombre en el estado primitivo de barbarie, según Rousseau.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
El terutero , llamado tetéu en el Paraguay, nombre imitativo de su modo de gritar, alborota, si no tanto, poco menos que el bullicioso carpintero, cuando ve gente, a la que suele seguir buen trecho incomodándola con su algazara.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Exstant epistulae et Philippi ad Alexandrum et Antipatri ad Cassandrum et Antigoni ad Philippum filium, trium prudentissimorum (sic enim accepimus); quibus praecipiunt, ut oratione benigna multitudinis animos ad benivolentiam alliciant militesque blande appellando
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
286b swīgtīma (swīt-) m. silent time, eventide, early part of the night , A 8·319.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
Such men as Professor Lodge, the eminent English physicist, and Professor Richet, the eminent French physiologist, are among the most active contributors to the Society's Proceedings; and through the catalogue of membership are sprinkled names honored throughout the world for their scientific capacity.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
The scene indeed would have been to the eye extremely pleasing, were it not for the reflection that some of our fellow-beings were about being deprived of a home, and perhaps lives also.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
That this is not always the case is a result of the increased power of sympathy which we gain by every experienced pain.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
Tuit orent ceintes les espées, El plain vindrent lances levées.
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt
Thus he had exacted exorbitant payments from heirs for inheritance of fiefs (reliefs); he had forced widows and female heirs under his wardship to marry his favorites and supporters, or had exacted heavy fines if they refused; he had levied unjust aids and services, and a heavy scutage, or payment for exemption from military service.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher
It is, in my conviction, incomparably the best summa theologiæ evangelicæ ever produced by a writer not miraculously inspired.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss
It is largely these conifers which have enriched European parks and gardens within recent years, and although it is perhaps the great Sequoia ( Wellingtonia ) gigantea which has most impressed
— from Modern Geography by Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin
306 Note Tafferner, chaplain to the embassy from Leopold I. of Austria to the Ottoman Court, speaking of the patriarchal church in his day (the present patriarchal church of S. George in the Phanar quarter), says, 'Aedes haec in patriarchatum erecta est, postquam Sultan Mehemet basilicam Petri et Pauli exceptam Graecis in moscheam defoedavit' ( Caesarea legatio , p. 89, Vien. 1668).
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
Eishöhle on the Brandstein. (Cranmer, Eishöhlen , etc., page 62.)—A small cleft cave near the Langriedleralm near Gams in Steiermark.
— from Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch
En circunstancias menos arriesgadas que las presentes han procurado los vasallos leales auxiliar á sus soberanos con dones y recursos anticipados á las necesidades; pero en esta prevision tiene el mejor lugar la generosa accion de súbdito hácia su señor.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman
That all Persons, of what Nation soever, have full freedom and liberty to trade to and from the said colony under the condition after mentioned, and that such of them as shall come to live and inhabite on the said Colony, shall according to their respective States and conditions enjoy equal privileges with the other Inhabitants thereof, such Inhabitants first giving up their several names and designations to be enrolled in a particular Register to be kept for that use.... 8.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson
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