10 Caedebatur virgis in medio foro Messanae civis Romanus, iudices; cum interea nullus gemitus, nulla vox alia illius miseri inter dolorem crepitumque plagarum audiebatur, nisi haec, Civis Romanus sum .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Proof.—Whatsoever thus increases the capabilities of the body increases also the mind's capability of perception (II. xiv.); therefore, whatsoever thus disposes the body and thus renders it capable, is necessarily good or useful (IV. xxvi.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

[37] posee el cetro de la poesía criolla, he wields the sceptre in creole [indigenous, national, gaucho , native], poetry .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

* Note: This famous monument, the authenticity of which many have attempted to impeach, rather from hatred to the Jesuits, by whom it was made known, than by a candid examination of its contents, is now generally considered above all suspicion.
— 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

I could imagine no greater calamity, for the United States and the world, than that the American nation should fail to indorse heartily this great statesman.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

If Christ is not God, he is not even a good man.
— from The Ministry of the Spirit by A. J. (Adoniram Judson) Gordon

Proof.- Whatsoever thus increases the capabilities of the body increases also the mind's capability of perception (II:xiv.); therefore, whatsoever thus disposes the body and thus renders it capable, is necessarily good or useful (IV:xxvi., IV:xxvii.); and is so in proportion to the extent to which it can render the body capable; contrariwise (II:xiv., IV:xxvi., IV:xxvii.), it is hurtful, if it renders the body in this respect less capable.
— from Ethics — Part 4 by Benedictus de Spinoza

The "Monthly Review" sneers at me, and asks "if 'Comus' is not good enough for Mr. Lamb?" because I have said no good serious dramas have been written since the death of Charles the First, except "Samson Agonistes"; so because they do not know, or won't remember, that "Comus" was written long before, I am to be set down as an undervaluer of Milton!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

These are facts; from which we may learn, that with less than a whole, either already wrought, or so indicated that the excited imagination can of itself complete it, no genuine response will ever be given to any production of man.
— from Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

I can in nowise guess why la Marta so long deferred her revenge against the Duke, except it was...'" Mr. Pelly stopped despairingly.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

[Pg 116] “When a canal is conducted across an undulating country, its course is necessarily governed by the accidents of the ground, and it alternately rises and falls.
— from A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Enrico Angelo Lodovico Negretti