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I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner
Si te forte iuvant Helles Athamantidos urbes, Nec desiderio, Tulle, movere meo, Tu licet aspicias caelum omne Atlanta gerentem, 8 Sectaque Persea Phorcidos ora manu, Geryonis stabula et luctantum in pulvere signa Herculis Antaeique Hesperidumque choros, Tuque tuo Colchum propellas remige Phasim, 12 Peliacaeque trabis totum iter ipse legas, Qua rudis Argoa natat inter saxa columba In faciem prorae pinus adacta novae, Et siqua Ortygii visenda est ora Caystri, 16
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
Aequitas enim lucet ipsa per se, dubitatio cogitationem significat iniuriae.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
It is a cleanly, comfortable-looking old house, and though it is well after noon, an excellent luncheon is promptly served—the roadside inns are adapting themselves to the irregular hours of the motorist.
— from On Old-World Highways A Book of Motor Rambles in France and Germany and the Record of a Pilgrimage from Land's End to John O'Groats in Britain by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy
"The extremity of license in manners necessarily leads to equal license in personal satire, and there never was an age in which both were carried to such excess as in that of Charles II.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt
“Mr Miller’s ‘English literature’ is particularly strong in the number and quality of its quotations and selections from the ‘Great masterpieces.’
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various
First, they desire to exterminate leprosy in Palestine; second, as opportunity offers, they speak of Christ to the patients.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton
In considering this subject, I shall confine myself to the proof, as far as my limits allow, of two points,—first, that this Thought or Image of Christ was the principle of conversion and of fellowship; and next, that among the lower classes, who had no power, influence, reputation, or education, lay its principal success.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
— from King Henry IV, Second Part by William Shakespeare
The government plans to eventually lower its public sector deficit to below 3% of GDP to adopt the euro.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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