Democratic peoples hold erudition very cheap, and care but little for what occurred at Rome and Athens; they want to hear something which concerns themselves, and the delineation of the present age is what they demand.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Some say that precious stone called [6296] beryllus, others a diamond, hath excellent virtue, contra hostium injurias, et conjugatos invicem conciliare , to reconcile men and wives, to maintain unity and love; you may try this when you will, and as you see cause.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

] Note 75 ( return ) [ Their names were erased from the diptych of the church: ex venerabili diptycho, in quo piae memoriae transitum ad coelum habentium episcoporum vocabula continentur, (Concil.
— 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

The learned Wouweren has commented long and learnedly upon this passage, and his emendation ‘veretriculis’ caused me to laugh heartily.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

{334} We need not call the source of this instinct God’s restitution for feminine deficiency in other matters; we can show that it is due to natural selection, and that the position and task of woman requires her to observe her environment very closely.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

—Mi buen hombre, es Vd. ciego o está embriagado,—repuso el embustero.—¡Vaya!
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

He had a good heart and was not without intelligence; but the spirit of the age—of his environment— vous comprenez?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He appears to have enquired very carefully into this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn's History of the Poor Laws.}.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

His eighth volume contains excellent matter, but the subjects are not always well chosen or varied judiciously, and one understands why the Spectator took a firmer hold upon society when the two friends in the full strength of their life, aged about forty, worked together and embraced between them a wide range of human thought and feeling.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The prince told us his experiences very cleverly; he saw the donkey himself, and what have you ever seen?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Examples almost innumerable, of these things might be particularized, if it were proper, and it would be found upon examination, that the amount of ingenuity and labor wasted upon such attempts, would have been sufficient, if properly expended, to have elevated very considerably the standard of education, and to have placed existing institutions in a far more prosperous and thriving state than they now exhibit.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

It will be a great pity if his exceedingly valuable collection is not preserved to the State to become the nucleus of a Historical Society worthy of the State’s history.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

His equal valour could as much, as well.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

The lace industry of Le Puy, like all others, has experienced various changes; it has had its trials [650] and its periods of great prosperity.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

WILCOX, RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, ARTHUR KETCHUM, O. HENRY, EDMUND VANCE COOKE, POULTNEY BIGELOW, S. E. KISER, ELIZABETH DUER, JOHN VANCE CHENEY, GUY WETMORE CARRYL, JOHN B. TABB, JOSEPH C. LINCOLN, CLINTON SCOLLARD, MRS.
— from Atchoo! Sneezes from a Hilarious Vaudevillian by George Niblo

His eulogy of the Sicilian philosopher, which he has so happily combined with that of the country which gave him birth, affords a beautiful example of his manner of infusing into everything a poetic sweetness, Musæo contingens cuncta lepore ,— “Quorum Agragantinus cum primis Empedocles est: Insula quem Triquetris terrarum gessit in oris: Quam fluitans circum magnis anfractibus, æquor Ionium glaucis aspergit virus ab undis, Angustoque fretu rapidum, mare dividit undis Æoliæ terrarum oras a finibus ejus: Hîc est vasta Charybdis, et hîc Ætnæa
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

But he has escaped very cheaply, thanks to Kate, and she will make a melancholy hero of him, poor dear child, for the rest of her life.’
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The autumnal views were new to them; they saw the hedges exhibit various colours, and the trees stripped of their leaves; but they were not disposed to moralize.
— from Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft

[284] That Luther “was not always true to his theories,” and that [93] he is far from displaying any “striking originality” in his economic views, cannot, according to this author, be called into question.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

XVI.—AN EXPERT IN HERESY E VERY country has its own sports, and Scotland has golf, but golf only satisfies the lighter side of the Scots; the graver side of the Scot finds its exercise in the prosecution of a heretic.
— from His Majesty Baby and Some Common People by Ian Maclaren