Each fair candidate endeavoured Page 40 [40] to secure his favour by the most tempting offers.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

That this heat necessarily follows the shining of the sun is contained indeed in the judgment of experience (by means of the concept of cause), yet is a fact not learned by experience; for conversely, experience is first of all generated by this addition of the concept of the understanding (of cause) to perception.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Fecit omnia delicta quae fieri possunt circa res sex non naturales, et eae fuerunt causae extrinsecae, ex quibus postea ortae sunt obstructiones.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Persons fish for crabs in shallow brackish water, provided with baskets like those employed in Europe for catching eels, but open at both ends.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It would seem, then, that in these higher creatures the lower centres must be less adequate than they are farther down in the zoological scale; and that even for certain elementary [Pg 76] combinations of movement and impression the co-operation of the hemispheres is necessary from the start.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Aussi le plus souvent sa phraséologie est-elle fort complexe, et pour suivre le fil de l'idée première, faut-il apporter une attention soutenue.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

V. be excluded from &c. exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect &c. 460; banish &c. (seclude) 893; separate.&c.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Cepit illico pulsus variari et ferri celerius et sic inveni.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ainsi sont nées toutes ces histoires publiées ensuite sous le titre de Contes écologiques et fantastiques (Caen, Editions Charles Corlet, 1988 - réédités en 1995 à la suite des Extravagantes histoires de Graundaru, ndlr).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It separates Protestant Europe from Catholic Europe; it separates countries of representative institutions and popular government from absolute monarchies; it separates lands where education is universal from lands where illiteracy predominates; it separates manufacturing countries, progressive agriculture, and skilled labor from primitive hand industries, backward agriculture, and unskilled labor; it separates an educated, thrifty peasantry from a peasantry scarcely a single generation removed from serfdom; it separates Teutonic races from Latin, Slav, Semitic, and Mongolian races.
— from Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

In addition to having passed the comprehensive examinations for college entrance, he had passed the examinations in trigonometry, solid geometry, chemistry, and physics, and was at this time 13 years 3 months of age.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

The assassin, being on the back of a fleet horse, gallops off to a wood, entering which, after turning his horse loose, he baffles pursuit by clambering over steep and stony parts into the pathless wilderness, "where," continues the writer, "he did not remain long concealed ; FOR" (mark the sequence), "his horse having been caught and shown through all the towns round, the people knew whose it was, and that led to his apprehension":—"pernicitate equi profugus, postquam saltuosos locos adtigerat, dimisso equo, per derupta et avia sequentis frustratus est, neque diu fefellit ; NAM prehenso ductoque per proximos pagos equo, eujus foret cognitum, et repertus" (An. IV. 45).
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

“There is not,” Mr. Bright said, in the course of this quarrel with the Lords, “a man who labours and sweats for his daily bread, there is not a woman living in a cottage who strives to make her home happy for husband and children, to whom the words of the chancellor of the exchequer have not brought hope, and to whom his measures, which have been defended with an eloquence few can equal and with a logic none can contest, have not administered consolation.”
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

Park St. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., for C. E. Hall, McIntosh, Ga. 10.00 Allston.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 04, April, 1896 by Various

] I obtained evidence of the presence, among blood-relations, of the following diseases: Epilepsy, fourteen cases (eight were examples of migraine); hemiplegia or paraplegia, nine cases; insanity, twelve cases; drunken habits, fourteen cases; "consumption," [103] eighteen cases; "St. Vitus's dance," four cases.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

Above these, in an arched compartment, is a group of dragons, issuing from an expanded flower cup, expressive of the chimæra of oriental mythology: these, also, are richly gilt, and beautifully sculptured.
— from Florizel's Folly by John Ashton

Now, as all that goes to make up the large fortunes must come out of this sum, we may accept the estimate of M. de Morogues that the daily income of half the French people does not exceed five cents each.
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon