18. saepe nuda carne cilicium portent tempore frigido sine caligis, et nudis pedibus incedant, in pane et aqua jejunent, saepius se verberbus caedant, &c. 5611 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He was born in the West of England near Plymouth in Devonshire , being bred to the Sea, he served as a Mate of a Merchant-Man, in several trading Voyages: It happened before the Peace of Ryfwick , when there was an Alliance betwixt Spain , England , Holland , &c. against France , that the French in Martinico , carried on a smugling Trade with the Spaniards on the Continent of Peru , which by the Laws of Spain , is not allowed to Friends in Time of Peace, for none but native Spaniards are permitted to Traffick in those Parts, or set their Feet on Shore, unless at any Time they are brought as Prisoners; wherefore they constantly keep certain Ships cruising along the Coast, whom they call Guarda del Costa , who have the Orders to make Prizes of all ships they can light of within five Leagues of Land.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

[ This epistle, in some copies of Josephus, is said to come to Jotare from Elijah, with this addition," for he was yet upon earth," which could not be true of Elijah, who, as all agree, was gone from the earth about four years before, and could only be true of Elisha; nor perhaps is there any more mystery here, than that the name of Elijah has very anciently crept into the text instead of Elisha, by the copiers, there being nothing in any copy of that epistle peculiar to Elijah.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Error, not possible in the skilled person (Thrasymachus), 1. 340 D .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Surely, such a system of explaining notum per ignotum , of { 277} making the explicans borrow credentials from the explicand , and of creating paradoxes and impossibilities where none were suspected, is a strange candidate for the honor of being a complete rationalizer of the world.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

II. suit cette doctrine comme une verite constante; l'on ne peut, dit ce S. Docteur, baptiser les enfans qui sont renfermes dans le sein de leurs meres, & S. Thomas est fonde sur ce, que les enfans ne sont point nes, & ne peuvent etre comptes parmi les autres hommes; d'ou il conclud, qu'ils ne peuvent etre l'objet d'une action exterieure, pour recevoir par leur ministere, les sacremens necessaires au salut: Pueri in maternis uteris existentes nondum prodierunt in lucem ut cum aliis hominibus vitam ducant; unde non possunt subjici actioni humanae, ut per eorum ministerium sacramenta recipiant ad salutem.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The only question is whether all restorations of function must be explained in this one simple way, or whether some part of them may not be owing to the formation of entirely new paths in the remaining centres, by which they become 'educated' to duties which they did not originally possess.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In eadem re utilitas et turpitudo esse non potest —In the same thing usefulness and baseness cannot coexist.
— 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.

That soul which is ever ready, even now presently (if need be) from the body, whether by way of extinction, or dispersion, or continuation in another place and estate to be separated, how blessed and happy is it!
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

[—qui foedera rumpit Ditatur: qui servat, eget: vastator Achivae Gentis, et Epirum nuper populatus inultam, Praesidet Illyrico: jam, quos obsedit, amicos Ingreditur muros; illis responsa daturus, Quorum conjugibus potitur, natosque peremit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Mr. C., who divided his Profits with the People who had earned it, established no Public Institutions, suppressed Nobody; and those who have worked for him said, "He allowed Others to live for Themselves." SHOULD THE CHINESE BE EXCLUDED?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Even the wooden stools which had served as seats for her and Sally Tracy in the old childish days stood in the same corner under the dormer window, through which the sun was even now pouring its setting rays.
— from An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

[Pg 21] even now, people in England fail to realise the importance of these homes beyond the sea.
— from Six Letters From the Colonies by R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton

But the "elders" now proceeded in the roundabout way prescribed by Cotton's system ingeniously deduced from Scripture.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston

MARTIN'S LANE, CHARING CROSS, Respectfully begs leave to acquaint Officers of the Army, the Civil Service, Cadets, and others proceeding to India, that he has introduced an entirely new process in the preparation of leather, whereby it is rendered most beautifully soft and pliable, and at the same time so much changed in its nature, as not to occasion that pain and inconvenience universally experienced in wearing new boots.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

If every noun plural in English were of the type of book : books , if there were not such conflicting patterns as deer : deer , ox : oxen , goose : geese to complicate the general form picture of plurality, there is little doubt that the fusion of the elements book and -s into the unified word books would be felt as a little less complete than it actually is.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir

In other words, the lengths of the individual vectors denote the percentile rôle that each night played in the total density.
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.

II , suit cette doctrine comme une verité constante; l’on ne peut, dit ce S. Docteur, baptiser les enfans qui sont renfermés dans le sein de leurs meres, & S. Thomas est fondé sur ce, que les enfans ne sont point nés, & ne peuvent être comptés parmi les autres hommes; d’où il conclud, qu’ils ne peuvent être l’objet d’une action extérieure, pour reçevoir par leur ministére, les sacremens nécessaires au salut: Pueri in maternis uteris existentes nondum prodierunt in lucem ut cum aliis hominibus vitam ducant; unde non possunt subjici actioni humanæ, ut per eorum ministerium sacramenta recipiant ad salutem.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

So the old man made the little mill, and filling it with bean sauce, began to grind, while the envious neighbor peeped in at the window.
— from Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

You see, Mac, the scientific treatment of rich ores has developed so rapidly of late that the Bison mill is practically a back number; while we know that it cannot compete with the low-grade extractions now practised in Cripple Creek and at Leadville.
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy