Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont souvent les plus petits —Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded.
— 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.
Introdujo en nuestras escuelas, lo que nunca será bastante loado, las lecciones prácticas sobre objetos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
The commissary of the bishop of Strasburg undertook the advocates, explained this matter in a treatise upon proverbial phrases, shewing them, that the Promontory of Noses was a mere allegorick expression, importing no more than that nature had given him a long nose: in proof of which, with great learning, he cited the underwritten authorities, (Nonnulli ex nostratibus eadem loquendi formula utun.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
o espinero, pájaro pequeño, de color pardo, hace un enorme nido en los árboles bajos, postes y cercados de las chacras y estancias, con multitud de palitos y de largas y recias espinas de plantas diversas....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
ellenlēaf n. elder-leaf , Lcd 122a.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
II There is no rest, no calm, no pause, Nor good nor ill, nor light nor shade, Nor essence nor eternal laws: For nothing is, but all is made.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
El tercer piso en España no es la misma cosa que en los Estados Unidos.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
We may to-day turn to the Magnalia for vivid accounts of early New England life.
— from History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
The Molinists argue: “ Liberum arbitrium efficaciter praemotum a gratia non potest dissentire; ergo non est liberum. ”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle
When he was only eight years of age he entered the choir of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and there became acquainted with, and as later events proved, influenced by, the ancient school of English ecclesiastical music, which, notwithstanding his subsequent foreign education, never entirely lost its effect on his mind.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford
Inter eos enim nullus est liber.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt
The emperor thus replied:— “Gentlemen, after an interval of twelve years I have come for the second time to distribute rewards to those [463] who have most distinguished themselves in those works which enrich nations, embellish life, and soften manners.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
At bottom he was persuaded that the one and the other were only a mistake and a delusion, and that everything, not excluding life, was one great vanity.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
In common with the legislatures of the States, Congress cannot constitutionally pass ex post facto laws in criminal cases, nor suspend the writ of habeas corpus, nor pass a bill of attainder, nor abridge the freedom of speech and of the press, nor invade the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, nor enact laws respecting an establishment of religion.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
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