But if they are corrupted by the other Hellenes and the common practice of barbarians, and they see with their eyes and hear with their ears of the so-called free love everywhere prevailing among them, and they themselves are not able to get the better of the temptation, the guardians of the law, exercising the functions of lawgivers, shall devise a second law against them.
— from Laws by Plato

Nam ut adversas res, sic secundas immoderate ferre levitatis est, praeclaraque est aequabilitas in omni vita et idem semper vultus eademque frons, ut
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Such is the excellence which St. Evremond ascribes to Mareschal Turenne, who displayed every campaign, as he grew older, more temerity in his military enterprises; and being now, from long experience, perfectly acquainted with every incident in war, he advanced with greater firmness and security, in a road so well known to him.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

[49-1] reunió al Imperio francés los Estados pontificios, declarando a Roma [49-2] ciudad imperial libre .
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Parece una figura luminosa evocada por
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

de parler—par une divine fantaisie, mettre en action tel ou tel muscle, un seul ou plusieurs muscles a la fois, lorsqu'il a voulu que les signes caracteristiques des passions, meme les plus fugaces, lussent ecrits passagerement sur la face de l'homme.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Sin cuidarse de completar sus frases, las enuncia por medio de comparaciones y de referencias, que a pesar de su sencillez vulgar
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It was the first London evening paper to appear regularly.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Shigalov is an artist and a fool like every philanthropist.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For after all it concerns the child; and is it quite an accident that, weaning him away from lovely things that so lovelily call themselves 'love,' 'home,' 'mother,' we can find no more alluring titles for the streets into which we entrap him than 'Educational Facilities,' 'Local Examinations,' 'Preceptors,' 'Pedagogues,' 'Professors,' 'Matriculations,' 'Certificates,' 'Diplomas,' 'Seminaries,' Elementary or Primary, and Secondary Codes,' 'Continuation Classes,' 'Reformatories,' 'Inspectors,' 'Local Authorities,' 'Provided' and 'Non-Provided,' 'Denominational' and 'Undenominational,' and 'D.Litt.'
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

A peg is firmly set into the face of the upper stone, half way between its periphery and centre, having tied to it by one end a stick three feet long, extended [Pg 303] horizontally, and attached by the other to another stick pending from the roof of the shed under which the mill is placed.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

She'll tell you how I used to come home from the store and talk about him after supper, and hope that the kid there would grow up into a financier like Eldon Parr.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

If the flank company, or companies, in the firing line execute platoons right , the successive firing lines can ordinarily break a charge against the flank.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Also many of the lessons in nature study are directly related to some of the finest literature ever produced, in which analogies of nature are made the means of expression for the finest and most delicate of the human 131 experiences.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris

This fiery little episode provoked laughter, and several privately told me they were glad of it." " January 25....
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Flora Lapponica, exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale, collectas itinere impensis Societ.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

As will be shown hereafter, when we come to discuss the Flood legends, every particular which has come down to us of the destruction of Atlantis has been duplicated in some of the accounts just given.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly