From forms like eundem ( eum + -dem ), eôrundem ( eôrum + -dem ), we learn the rule that m before d is changed to n .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But from this definition the implication immediately follows that such a Law can only be formal, like everything else known a priori , and consequently has only to do with the Form of actions, not with their Essence .
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The poor opinion he has of himself must be destroyed ( not in the sense of the individual, but in the sense of the natural man ...)— The contradictions in things must be eradicated, after it has been well understood that we were responsible for them— Social idiosyncrasies must be stamped out of existence (guilt, punishment, justice, honesty, freedom, love, etc. etc.)— An advance towards " naturalness ": in all political questions, even in the relations between parties, even in merchants', workmen's, or contractors'
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The earliest of these pictures count for most, as first impressions must, and Adams never afterwards cared much for landscape education, except perhaps in the tropics for the sake of the contrast.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

And with the assistance of this lady, and the accomplished Mrs. Grudden (who had quite a genius for making out bills, being a great hand at throwing in the notes of admiration, and knowing from long experience exactly where the largest capitals ought to go), he seriously applied himself to the composition of the poster.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Ego quantum ab illis tantum ab Horatio dissentio, qui Lucilium fluere lutulentum et esse aliquid, quod tollere possis , putat.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

of cōpia forest , silva, -ae, f. fort , castellum, -ī, n. ; castrum, -ī, n. fortification , mūnitiō, -ōnis, f. fortify , mūniō, 4 fortune , fortūna, -ae, f. fourth , quārtus, -a, -um free , līber, -era, -erum free, liberate , līberō, 1 frequent , crēber, -bra, -brum friend , amīcus, -ī, m. friendly ( adj. ), amīcus, -a, -um friendly ( adv. ), amīcē friendship , amīcitia, -ae, f. frighten , perterreō, 2 from , ā or ab, dē, ē, ex, with abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I used to say Mass with the levity that comes from long experience even of the most serious matters when they are too familiar to us; with my new principles I now celebrate it with more reverence; I dwell upon the majesty of the Supreme Being, his presence, the insufficiency of the human mind, which so little realises what concerns its Creator.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Here the immense extent of uncultivated and fertile lands enables every one who will labor to marry young, and to raise a family of any size.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The pioneer engine on the road, the Sandusky , was the first locomotive ever equipped with a whistle.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

[91] A single diamond in the ornament which Philip sent his queen was valued at eighty thousand crowns.—"Una joya que don Filipe le enbiaba, en que avia un diamante de valor de ochenta mil escudos.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Of co'se I ain't a-buyin' it, but ef I was I wouldn't want no reduction on it, I'd feel like ez ef it would always know it an' have a sort of contemp' for me.
— from Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart

17 , 1 a , 1 d ) of the six compartments; and the two ducts from each gland, on the right and left sides, debouch at the heads of the four lateral excisions, exactly opposite the midribs of the lateral and carino-lateral compartments.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Southern pygmy mice at high altitudes average larger than those from low elevations, except where the two species are sympatric.
— from Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard

The answer might be that the idea of god had meanwhile appeared,—no one knows whence—and had dominated the whole religious life, and that the totem feast, like everything else that wished to survive, had been forced to fit itself into the new system.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud