To statesmen grave, if such may deign To read the minstrel’s idle strain, Sound head, clean hand, and piercing wit, And patriotic heart—as Pitt!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

that we should in after times be told, that Tarsus, the antient city in Cilicia, was denominated from ταρτος , a foot: that the river Nile signified νε ιλυς : and that Gader in Spain was Γης δειρα .
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

[115] This Green in several passages seems expressly to admit e.g. (§ 332) he says that certain measures “needed in order to supply conditions favourable to good character, tend also to make life more pleasant on the whole”: and, elsewhere, that “it is easy to show that an overbalance of pain would result to those capable of being affected by it” from the neglect of certain duties.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Corolla gamopetalous, irregular, short tube, limb 2-lipped, the [ 189 ] lower lip ending in a spur.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Among other things Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke the Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down particularly, and to the great honour of the English beyond measure.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Among such truths are included those which merely state what is given in sense, and also certain abstract logical and arithmetical principles, and (though with less certainty) some ethical propositions.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

I am independent of horses and postillions; I need not stick to regular routes or good roads; I go anywhere where a man can go; I see all that a man can see; and as I am quite independent of everybody, I enjoy all the freedom man can enjoy.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This game is simple, and is played with marbles.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

provide a cunning 154 banquet; Send to the merchant, bid him bring me silks; Shall Ithamore, my love, go in such rags? ITHAMORE.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

The lack of enterprise at Covent Garden is shameful.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

When she goes I shan't have anybody."
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Dr. Ferriar says, “In those who die of chronic diseases, the gradation is slow and distinct.
— from The Anatomy of Suicide by Forbes Winslow

To this unimpeachable generalization the settled practice of the nation, whose experience in this matter transcends that of all others combined, gives incontrovertible support.
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

All men began to say all good things to the dean, and to Mrs. Greystock it seemed that the woolsack, or at least the Queen's Bench with a peerage, was hardly an uncertainty.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Gerontocracy is still too powerful, even in the youngest governments Besides, we are now at peace, and radical reforms are only to be effected by war.
— from The Roman Question by Edmond About

Hinc usura vorax, avidumque in tempore fænus, / Et concussa fides, et multis utile bellum —Hence (from the ambition of Cæsar) arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken credit, and war of advantage to many.
— 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.

He took off his coat and laid it down carefully, as if he were about to go in swimming.
— from Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods by Irving Bacheller