Atque illae tamen omnes dissensiones, quae non ad delendam, sed ad commutandam rempublicam 15 pertinebant—non illi nullam esse rempublicam, sed in ea quae esset se esse principes, neque hanc urbem conflagrare, sed se in hac urbe
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Another, and in my opinion the strongest, proof that the providence of the Gods takes care of us is divination, which both of you, perhaps, will attack; you, Cotta, because Carneades took pleasure in inveighing against the Stoics; and you, Velleius, because there is nothing Epicurus ridicules so much as the prediction of events.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They requested a truce, with a promise of surrendering the city, if no effectual relief should appear at the end of thirty days.
— 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

'It is nothing extraordinary,' replied sister Frances, 'she is often thus; but she had no meaning in what she says.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

We should be fighting to maintain a political system which would be in no essential respect superior to the European political system.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Massachusetts decisions reported in North eastern reporter, second series, 88 N.E. 2d-91 N.E. 2d.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

“It is not enough,” replied Socrates, “to have read it.
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon

Massachusetts decisions reported in North eastern reporter, second series.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

But if it be asked, how it comes that the bloud of the veins is not exhausted, running so continually into the heart; and how that the arteries are not too full, since all that which passeth thorow the heart dischargeth it self into them: I need answer nothing thereto but what hath been already writ by an English Physician, to whom this praise must be given, to have broken the ice in this place, and to be the first who taught us, That there are several little passages in the extremity of the arteries whereby the [82] bloud which they receive from the heart, enters the little branches of the veins; whence again it sends it self back towards the heart: so that its course is no other thing but a perpetuall circulation.
— from A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

(In North eastern reporter, second series) © West Pub. Co. (PWH) Vol. 10 (27 N.E.2d) © 2Jul43; A174358.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

MASSACHUSETTS DECISIONS REPORTED IN NORTH EASTERN REPORTER, SECOND SERIES.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It is, however, natural to consider a polypus, furnished with a mouth, intestines, and other organs, as a distinct individual, whereas the individuality of a leaf-bud is not easily realised; so that the union of separate individuals in a common body is more striking in a coralline than in a tree.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin