Although, in this state, he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature, he gains in return others so great, his faculties are so stimulated and developed, his ideas so extended, his feelings so ennobled, and his whole soul so uplifted, that, did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left, he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever, and, instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal, made him an intelligent being and a man.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Firm in her vows, serenely glad, In robes of spotless linen clad, As texts prescribe, with grace implored, Her offerings in the fire she poured.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

That he could cubiculorum obductas foras recludere et secreta cordium penetrare , which [388] Cyprian desired, open doors and locks, shoot bolts, as Lucian's Gallus did with a feather of his tail: or Gyges' invisible ring, or some rare perspective glass, or Otacousticon , which would so multiply species, that a man might hear and see all at once (as [389] Martianus Capella's Jupiter did in a spear which he held in his hand, which did present unto him all that was daily done upon the face of the earth), observe cuckolds' horns, forgeries of alchemists, the philosopher's stone, new projectors, &c., and all those works of darkness, foolish vows, hopes, fears and wishes, what a deal of laughter would it have afforded?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Having solicited for a small allowance usually given in reward of service, and which was refused, he left Portugal and entered into the service of Spain.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The Chief there, knowing these conditions, is enabled to locate a storm, to gauge its rate of speed, to learn its course, and to measure its intensity.
— from Reading the Weather by Thomas Morris Longstreth

Diogenes tells us that “he was a very powerful debater, and excelled all so greatly in readiness of speech that all Greece, in looking to him, was in danger (μικροῦ δεῆσαι) of becoming Megareans.”
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I gave in return one shukka merikani and one shukka kiniki.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

Having settled the form of the lighthouse, and made it like a tree-trunk, the next business was to fix it firmly in the rock, and, in fact, to give it roots of stone.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

And without the least agitation of mind he passed along the environs of the capital, crowned with charming gardens and groves, and approached the forest, betokened by the gradually increasing rareness of shady trees and of human beings, the sight of flocks of antelopes running at a far distance, and the chirping of crickets.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

What country is there that can compete with Germany in respect of scientific culture?—and have the courts of so many princes not contributed to this result?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

"We give in," remarked one sarcastic snake expert, when the laughter had subsided.
— from Eye Spy: Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

They give it regularly on Sunday and [Pg 100] Wednesday of each week during this time.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols

Cromwell was the first who gathered in representatives of Scotland and Ireland to Westminster.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir