Note 22 ( return ) [ Feriarum die quem celebrantes mense Januario, Christiani Epiphania dictitant, progressus in eorum ecclesiam, solemniter numine orato discessit.
— 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 cogitate merely the relation of a perfectly unknown being to the greatest possible systematic unity of experience, solely for the purpose of employing it as the schema of the regulative principle which directs reason in its empirical exercise.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Un lieu isotrope en expansion pour l'instant infinie.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It is easy enough to meet such critics.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

It even embraced legal matters, and the “world” in general, to a considerable extent.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I found it excellent, even better than veal if not beef.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Gass with three men to join Capt. Clark and assist in completing the canoes retaining only a few who in addition to those in the canoes that I expect every moment, will be sufficient to man the six canoes and take up all the baggage we have here at one load.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Para mí, la finalidad de Internet es el encuentro, y
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And therefore some men hold that while lawgivers should employ the sense of honour to exhort and guide men to Virtue, under the notion that they will then obey who have been well trained in habits; they should impose chastisement and penalties on those who disobey and are of less promising nature; and the incurable expel entirely: because the good man and he who lives under a sense of honour will be obedient to reason; and the baser sort, who grasp at pleasure, will be kept in check, like beasts of burthen by pain.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I will whistle to myself “Yankee Doodle,” and forget my passion in excessive expectoration.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Affianced by baptism, even in the bosom of your involuntary errors, espoused by the Eucharist in the integrity of Catholic faith and charity, what remains for you to complete the cycle of divine love and to consummate your life therein, except to become a mother in the apostolate?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

It was supposed that the sanguinary vessels of the matrix opened into the vacuities, and those of the placenta into the nipples, and that they joined one to the other; but experience is [289] quite contrary to this opinion; for if the arteries of the umbilical cord is injected the liquor returns by the veins, and not any part of it escapes externally.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

‘Yes, this is love, no doubt,’ she said to him this day; ‘it is even ecstasy—as yet.
— from Princess Napraxine, Volume 3 (of 3) by Ouida

Remember that the hot, dense material is entirely enclosed in an envelope impervious to all vibrations longer than those of the fifth order.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

In dealing with each character in each episode the novelist must for a thousand convincing details interrogate that part of his own individuality which corresponds to the particular character.
— from The Author's Craft by Arnold Bennett

Moreover no pose which makes an impression is ever entirely insincere.
— from The Love Affairs of Lord Byron by Francis Henry Gribble

In either event, whether obtained from wool residues or from lixiviation of wood-ash, it would be an impure potash.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

7. At first, in every engagement, he appeared successful; till, at length, finding himself entirely possessed of the confidence of the state, he sent a trusty messenger to his father for instructions.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

I exult even in the fresh winds which hardier frames than mine shrink from, and I love feeling their wild breath fan my cheek as I ride against it.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron