The healthy eye ought to look on everything visible, and not to say, I want green, like an eye that is diseased.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

[Pg 149] I Passa que' colli e vieni allegramente; Non ti curar di tanta compania— Vieni pensando a me segretamente— Ch'io t'accompagna per tutta la via.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

It is in prose, so that the expression "verses" appears not to mean that the works are Gâthâs.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

But it was the sound of an excited voice and not that of a world blasting explosion.
— from Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol by Robert Sidney Bowen

The principal temple was consecrated to Hathor, the Egyptian Venus, and not to Isis.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

Every visitor, and, notwithstanding the disturbed state of Paris, we have already had several to-day, announces some fresh disaster, each representing it according to the political creed to which he adheres.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

Their only connection with Islam is that they have in common with it the old Arabian customary law on which the law of the Sheriat was founded, but they do not, as far as I have ever been able to ascertain, hold any of the Moslem beliefs except vaguely and negatively the unity of God.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Your great-grandfather had by his second wife, Sir Thomas Fanshawe, Clerk of the Crown, and Surveyor-General of King James; to him he gave his manor of Jenkins, in Essex, valued at near two thousand a year.
— from Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Ann Fanshawe

Up till now oak—the hard, tough, English variety, and not the more modern Baltic oak or American varieties now used—was the material for the tool of the carver to work upon.
— from Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors by Arthur Hayden

Then she began to ask herself why she did not, why she could not love him, endowed eminently as he was with many high and noble qualities; and she was soon answered, when she considered how far he fell short of her standard, in mental and intellectual culture, in all that pertained to the secret sympathies of the heart, to the kindred tastes and sentiments, to that community of hopes and wishes, which, under the head of eadem velle atque nolle , the Roman philosophical historian has declared to be the sole base of true friendship, might he not better have said of true love.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, October 1849 by Various