Un pas de plus vers l'autonomisation de l'usager comme créateur de ressources en ligne: la dernière version de TACTweb, récemment installée sur un serveur de l'Université de Toronto, permet dorénavant de construire des bases interactives importantes comme les dictionnaires de la Renaissance (Estienne et Nicot; base RenDico), les deux principales éditions du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1694 et 1835), les collections de la Bibliothèque électronique de Lisieux (base LexoTor), les oeuvres complètes de Maupassant, ou encore les théâtres complets de Corneille, Molière, Racine, Marivaux et Beaumarchais (base Théâtre 17e-18e).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

16 The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, ... by Richard Hakluyt, Master of Artes and sometime Student of Christ Church in Oxford.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

M. Per fas et nefas —By right ways and by wrong.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

—In the spring of 1806, when the embassy entered the once-fertile Mewar, from whose native wealth the monuments the pencil will portray were erected, nothing but ruin met the eye—deserted towns, roofless houses, and uncultured plains.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

All this time a continual battle was in progress by strong skirmish-lines, taking advantage of every species of cover, and both parties fortifying each night by rifle-trenches, with head-logs, many of which grew to be as formidable as first-class works of defense.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But this proportion must in every nation be regulated by two different circumstances: first, by the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which its labour is generally applied; and, secondly, by the proportion between the number of those who are employed in useful labour, and that of those who are not so employed.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Vedas are still learnt by heart as they were long before the invasion of Alexander, and could even now be restored from the lips of religious teachers if every manuscript or printed copy of them were destroyed.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

And they eat nothing but raw flesh and raw fish.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Now, since the affair of Nordlingen, they had experienced nothing but reverses; the parliament had a plea for calling Mazarin to account for imaginary victories, always promised, ever deferred; but this time there really had been fighting, a triumph and a complete one.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Electronic news by radio ———————————— If costs were of no concern, then your applications of the online world would probably change considerably.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

At any rate he had evidently not been removed from office.
— from The Clock and the Key by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Vesey

It has been farther proved, from the parish registers, as well as from bonds and other documentary evidence, that she was, without doubt, the daughter of Randle Minshull of Wistaston, a village about three miles from Nantwich; that she was the cousin of Milton's familiar friend, Dr. Paget, and as such became entitled to a legacy under the learned Doctor's will, and that she is expressly named by Richard Minshull as his sister in the deed before quoted.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Both a mild heat and a pliant substance, however, are necessary for the production of life, in order that the spirit may neither hastily escape, nor be restrained by the obstinacy of the parts, so as not to be able to bend and model them like wax.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

Red Nails R ed Nails By ROBERT E. HOWARD
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

A few hours earlier, so considerable a reinforcement would perhaps have decided the day in favour of the Imperialists; and, even now, by remaining on the field, they might have saved the duke's artillery, and made a prize of that of the Swedes.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 03 by Friedrich Schiller

“To us to live and to be honest are the same thing, but a slave!—King Antiochus is said to have declared that the man who wishes to be well served must employ none but rascals.”
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

On August 1st, after making many scientific observations of importance, the Vega proceeded slowly eastward, nothing but rotten ice, which in no way impeded the vessel, being met.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper