All the evening Nicholas paid attention to a blue-eyed, plump and pleasing little blonde, the wife of one of the provincial officials.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To this opinion of Galen, almost all the Greeks and Arabians subscribe, the Latins new and old, internae, tenebrae offuscant animum, ut externae nocent pueris , as children are affrighted in the dark, so are melancholy men at all times, [2665] as having the inward cause with them, and still carrying it about.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

O my uncle Mr. Toby Shandy do I stand indebted for the preceding anecdote, to whom my father, who was 6 an excellent natural philosopher, and much given to close reasoning upon the smallest matters, had oft, and heavily complained of the injury; but once more particularly, as my uncle Toby well remember’d, upon his observing a most unaccountable obliquity, (as he call’d it) in my manner of setting up my top, and justifying the principles upon which I had done it,—the old gentleman shook his head, and in a tone more expressive by half of sorrow than reproach,—he said his heart all along foreboded, and he saw it verified in this, and from a thousand other observations he had made upon me, That I should neither think nor act like any other man’s child:—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

By the long duration of the late civil war, with its concomitant train of public calamities, the minds of men were become less averse to the prospect of an absolute government; at the same time that the new emperor, naturally prudent and politic, had learned from the fate of Julius the art of preserving supreme power, without arrogating to himself any invidious mark of distinction.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

When the suits for failure of service are completed, the leaders of the several kinds of troops shall again hold an assembly, and they shall adjudge the prizes of valour; and he who likes searching for judgment in his own branch of the service, saying nothing about any former expedition, nor producing any proof or witnesses to confirm his statement, but speaking only of the present occasion.
— from Laws by Plato

if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forget his epic, nay Pindaric art; But still I love the language of his heart.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Nor is this the prerogative of numbers alone, and propositions made about several of them; but even natural philosophy, and all the other sciences, afford propositions which are sure to meet with assent as soon as they are understood.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In altā puppe stābat gubernātor et nōn procul aliquī mīlitēs Rōmānī cum armīs splendidīs, inter quōs clārissimus erat Lentulus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I had sooner that every 'New Publications' ad. should die out of my newspaper than that my literary columns should be contaminated with a Lie!
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870. by Various

2. Give the following abbreviations correctly; AFFIRMATIVE, ACKNOWLEDGE, ATTENTION, ERROR, NEGATIVE, PREPARATORY, ANNULLING, SIGN OF NUMERALS.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

To our dull sense indeed they may seem disconnected, but the more we listen the more we perceive a connected law of higher euphony, now presaging, and finally bringing about the solution of all dissonance into an eternal harmony.
— from The Wave of Scepticism and the Rock of Truth by M. H. (Matthew Henry) Habershon

Charlemagne, il y eut dans la France des Sauterelles en nombre prodigieux, ayans six aisles auec deux dents plus dures que de pierre, qui couurirent toute la terre, comme de la neige, et gasterent tous les fruits, arbres, blé, et foins, et tels animaux ayans esté jettés
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

But in the end numbers prevailed, and the country was reduced to the obedience of Adel Khan, and afterwards confirmed to him by treaty.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The priests of the order took precisely the same vows as the rest of the brethren, and enjoyed no privileges above their fellows.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

The result has fully answered my expectations; therefore I now make the following propositions to your honourable Board, that this entirely new principle and new mode may be fully demonstrated, on a sufficient scale for the use of the public.
— from Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2) by Francis Trevithick

They, however, exhibited no particular admiration.
— from Absalom's Hair by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Use the following: Is to be had à Vienne chez Artaria Comp., à Münich chez F. Halm, à Francfort chez Gayl et Nädler, perhaps also in Leipsic chez Meysel—the price is 2 florins Viennese standard.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer