ed against scandalous sinners, and particularly those who were guilty of murder, of fraud, or of incontinence; against the authors or the followers of any heretical opinions which had been condemned by the judgment of the episcopal order; and against those unhappy persons, who, whether from choice or compulsion, had polluted themselves after their baptism by any act of idolatrous worship.
— 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

In another age, all the branches of knowledge, whether relating to God or man or nature, will become the knowledge of 'the revelation of a single science' (Symp.), and all things, like the stars in heaven, will shed their light upon one another.
— from Meno by Plato

[formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar[obs3], house; quorum; council fire [N.Am.], powwow
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

So that, senor, it is better to be an humble little friar of no matter what order, than a valiant knight-errant; with God a couple of dozen of penance lashings are of more avail than two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or monsters, or dragons."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2. Coloring Matters—Tentative Shake vigorously 100 grams or more of the sample with cold water or 70 percent alcohol by volume.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For other animals have no care but to provide for their subsistence, for which the spontaneous kindness of nature is all-sufficient; and this one circumstance renders their lot more especially preferable, that they never think about glory, or money, or ambition, and, above all, that they never reflect on death.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Upon his return to Rome, having introduced his son Drusus into the forum, he immediately removed from Pompey’s house, in the Carinae, to the gardens of Mecaenas, on the Esquiline 317 , and resigned himself entirely to his ease, performing only the common offices of civility in private life, without any preferment in the government.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And so true is this, that I recollect a grandmother of mine on the father's side, whenever she saw any dame in a venerable hood, used to say to me, 'Grandson, that one is like Dame Quintanona,' from which I conclude that she must have known her, or at least had managed to see some portrait of her.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Many modern spices come to us ready ground or mixed, or compounded ready for kitchen use.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Afterwards, came the gods " minorum gentium ," the gods of mortal origin; the heroes, as Bacchus, Hercules, and Æsculapius: the infernal gods, Pluto and Proserpine: those of the sea, as Tethys, Amphitrite, the Nereids, and Glaucus.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire

Hats off, hats off, for my lord to pass, The grand old Marquis of Carabas!— though ‘that blade immaculate’ has hardly got the sting of ‘un sabre innocent’; and in the fourth verse of the same poem, ‘Marquise, you’ll have the bed-chamber’ does not very clearly convey the sense of the line ‘La Marquise a le tabouret.’
— from A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde

The streets were filled, after he had passed, with groups of men of all ranks and stations, discussing the strange and mournful vicissitudes in the life of this hapless monarch, now for the second time cut off from all his friends, and immured hopelessly in a dismal dungeon.
— from Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

I tell you, though it be but the saying of blind to blind, he that comes is to be a Savior of souls; and the Redemption means God once more on earth, and righteousness, that his stay here may be tolerable to himself.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

May Hesperus lead thee, and Hera, She whom to-night that ye honor, Silver-throned Goddess of marriage, O Hymenæus!
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

It is often a fact that so small a dose as one-eighth grain of morphin or even one-sixth grain will cause sufficient stimulation of a nervous patient, because its primary stimulant effect on the spinal cord is greater than its depressant effect on the brain, to require another dose (one-fourth grain altogether) to give such a patient rest.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

Her letters, quiet and intimate as they are, give glimpses of most of the literary people of the day, not in memoirs then, but alive and drinking tea at one another's houses, or walking all the way to Stoke Newington to pay their respects to the old lady.
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie

The number of men required for a fire, battle, or mine command depends on the number and caliber of the guns or mortars or the size of the mine command.
— from The Gunner's Examiner by Harold E. (Harold Edward) Cloke

A Treatise on Coast Defence; based on the experience gained by Officers of the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the Confederate States, and compiled from Official Reports of Officers of the Navy of the United States, made during the North American War from 1861 to 1865, by Von Scheliha, Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief Engineer of the Department of the Gulf of Mexico, of the Army of the late Confederate States of America; with numerous fine plates , imperial 8vo, cloth, top edge gilt 15 0 Trevithick.
— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon

She was thinking of something very different!—of the grandeur of men of genius, and the certainty which her heart divined that they would never subject the woman they chose to ordinary laws.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac