Id tale esse debet ut fere tertiam digiti partem latitudo mucronis impleat; demittendumque ita est ut membranam quoque transeat qua caro ab interiore parte finitur; eo tum plumbea aut aenea fistula coniicienda est vel recurvatis in exteriorem partem labris vel in media circumsurgente quadam mora, ne tota intus delabi possit.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

[ By the transmarine provinces, Asia, Egypt, etc., are meant; so that we find Caligula entertaining visions of an eastern empire, and removing the seat of government, which were long afterwards realized in the time of Constantine.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Hoc quosdam agit ad mortem , (saith [2190] Seneca) quod proposita saepe mutando in eadem revolvuntur, et non relinquunt novitati locum: Fastidio caepit esse vita, et ipsus mundus, et subit illud rapidissimarum deliciarum, Quousque eadem ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The poet was perhaps unconscious of the secret sense and object of these sublime predictions, which have been so unworthily applied to the infant son of a consul, or a triumvir; but if a more splendid, and indeed specious interpretation of the fourth eclogue contributed to the conversion of the first Christian emperor, Virgil may deserve to be ranked among the most successful missionaries of the gospel.
— 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

Go, then, and take holy water, and have masses said; belief will come and stupefy your scruples,— Cela vous fera croire et vous abêtira .
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Itaque probe definitur a Stoicis fortitudo, cum eam virtutem esse dicunt propugnantem pro aequitate.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Danda omnino opera est, ut omni generi satis facere possimus; sed si res in contentionem veniet, nimirum Themistocles est auctor adhibendus; qui cum consuleretur, utrum bono viro pauperi an minus probato diviti filiam collocaret: "Ego vero," inquit, "malo virum, qui pecunia egeat, quam pecuniam, quae viro."
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

La gente de queſta ſonno mori et eranno banditi duna yſola deta burne vano nudi Como li alt i anno za robotane con li carcaſſeti alato pienni de freze con erba venenata anno pugnialli con li maniſi ornati de oro et de pietre precioſe lancie rodelle et corazine de corno de bufalo ne chiamauão corpi ſancti
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Thus; A rolling stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry a full cup even; Vinegar is the son of wine; The last ounce broke the camel's back; Long-lived trees make roots first;—and the like.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before the mighty army went The lords for counsel eminent, Vaśishṭha, Vámadeva next, Jáváli, pure with prayer and text.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Coombe paused, he rose, he held up his tankard, "Beer isn't good enough nor would the finest champagne ever vinted be good enough, but it isn't the stuff we drink her health in, it's the feeling, it's the respect, the admiration we feel, gentlemen, that does her honour and perhaps does honour to us too.
— from The Garden of Memories by Henry St. John Cooper

Tractatio de vxore romana cum ea, quae in manvm convenit, farre, coemtione et vsu, tum illa, quae vxor tantummodo habebatur.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Economic development is hindered by dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters, and long distances from main markets and between constituent islands.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Gentlemen, the book just published by one of your former friends, M. Flourens (ex-minister), La France Conquise Edward VII and Clemenceau , is going to enlighten rulers deaf to the voice of the Pope (who had condemned Masonry since 1728).
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

Auro solis erat supra fastigia currus, Et valvæ Libyci nobile dentis opus.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

At the best its opinions are not conclusions from certain easily verifiable principles, but are effects from the worship of certain models.
— from Criticism and Fiction by William Dean Howells

These figures certainly emphasize very strikingly the value of early fall destruction of the boll weevil’s food supply.
— from How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory by George Howard Alford

A beautiful road, the continuation of the Cours Grandval, ascends 2½ m. to the Fontaine du Salario , 760 ft., commanding enchanting views.
— from Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads by C. B. Black