93 After a dark series of revolutions, all records of pedigree were lost; the distinction of surnames was abolished; the blood of the nations was mingled in a thousand channels; and the Goths and Lombards, the Greeks and Franks, the Germans and Normans, had obtained the fairest possessions by royal bounty, or the prerogative of valor.
— 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

Si vis pacem, para bellum —If you wish for peace, be ready for war.
— 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.

229 SECOND DIVISION DIALECTIC OF THE AESTHETICAL JUDGEMENT § 55 A faculty of Judgement that is to be dialectical must in the first place be rationalising, i.e. its judgements must claim universality 99 and that a priori ; for it is in the opposition of such judgements that Dialectic consists.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

While Sherman's army lay here, General F. P. Blair returned to it, bringing with him the two divisions of veterans who had been on furlough.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Although we cannot avoid speaking of the smallest parts into which matter can be divided, and although we cannot imagine, on the other hand, how any portions of matter can exist and not be divisible into parts, we are probably quite as incapable of saving ourselves from paradox by resort to the vortex hypothesis in any form.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

: the last rockets rose lazily in the dark sky where a few paper balloons recently inflated with smoke and hot air still glimmered like new stars.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I got out of the carriage, and after thanking the kindly old landlord, who was sorry to lose so good a boarder, I made her get in, sat down beside her, and ordered the postillions to go to Toulon, as I wished to see that fine port before returning to Italy.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We are told in the Rāmāyaṇa itself that the poem was either recited by professional minstrels or sung to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument, being handed down orally, in the first place by Rāma’s two sons Kuça and Lava.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

From Florence, and then from Paris, Blaine replied to Cleveland's Message of 1887, and his friends continued to urge his nomination for the Presidency.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

"We've gained forward velocity, but I'll bet your computers will show us better than four percent below requirements at this orbit.
— from Human Error by Raymond F. Jones

The Greeks keep her festival on the 4th, the Roman Martyrology mentions her on the 5th of January.[1] The ancient beautiful life of S. Syncletica is quoted in the old lives of the fathers published by Rosweide, l. 6, and in the ancient notes of St. John Climacus.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The fragment of the cartoon in which Lionardo competed with Michael Angelo, may be held to survive in the fine painting by Rubens called 'the Battle of the Standard.'
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

With regard to the northern hemisphere, the isothermal line of 59° of Fahrenheit passes between Rome and Florence in latitude 43°; and near Raleigh in North Carolina, latitude 36°: that of 50° of equal annual temperature runs through the Netherlands, latitude 51°; and near Boston in the United States, latitude 42 1 ⁄ 2 °.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

And yet, in his pride (and it was not a false pride, but rather a noble regard for his birthright) he vaguely realized how far she was from him, how impossible.
— from Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

several towns applied for and got fresh powers by royal charter; this was the case with Preston and Liverpool and several smaller towns—amongst the latter were Kirkham and Garstang.
— from A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick

Richard owed him (so he said) forty pounds; besides, Richard had called him a sponge—and it was true.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

The making of fire by means of friction, produced by rubbing together two pieces of wood, was practiced nightly.
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup