The poet of a short hymn (x. 168) devoted to his praise thus describes him:— Of Vāta’s car I now will praise the greatness: Crashing it speeds along; its noise is thunder.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“And I,” he said, “I feel that my place is not in the judge’s seat, but on the prisoner’s bench.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

xiv.—M.] Note 873 ( return ) [ Malta, it need scarcely be said, is now in the possession of the English.
— 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 want of health and truth is not in the argument, but in ourselves.
— from Phaedo by Plato

So Hayton thinks it not inappropriate to say that the people of Catay are called Cataini, that the people of Corasmia are called Corasmins, and that the people of the cities of Persia are called Persians.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The soul of a hero is deeply impressed on the letter; nor can we confound such genuine and original acts with the elaborate and often empty speeches of the Byzantine historians] After reducing, by force, or treaty, the towns of inferior note in the midland provinces of Italy, Totila proceeded, not to assault, but to encompass and starve, the ancient capital.
— 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 not intended to deny that criminal liability, as well as civil, is founded on blameworthiness.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I only say, that whatever it be, it's difficult to conceive how the Rays of Light, unless they be Bodies, can have a permanent Virtue in two of their Sides which is not in their other Sides, and this without any regard to their Position to the Space or Medium through which they pass.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

im Spiegel sieht —That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In those parts where orioles are found all the year round it is not improbable that the birds one sees in the winter are not those that are observed during the summer.
— from Birds of the Plains by Douglas Dewar

There is nothing in the architecture of England more beautiful than that same spire.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The officers will be known by the letters A. and B.; the ladies, by the letters M. and N. ix It should be understood that the account is not intended to be complete in any respect, and that no attempt has been made to give public credit to individuals for their services, whatever these may have been.
— from Hospital Transports A memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862 by Frederick Law Olmsted

CLOTHING.—In these days at least it is not idle to remark that the first use of clothes is to keep the body warm; all other services they are made to perform are secondary and relatively unimportant.
— from The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons

It is not in the old setting.
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

To have Christians about me, to whom I can speak with a certainty of being understood, to feel that we are all bound together in the blessed Communion of the Body of Christ, to know that angels on high are rejoicing and evil spirits being chased away, that all the Banks Islands and all Melanesia are experiencing, as it were, the first shock of a mighty earthquake, that God who foresees the end may, in his merciful Providence, be calling even these very children to bear His message to thousands of heathens, is not it too much?
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It is not inconceivable that the origin of the honourable pallium is to be sought in the honourable orarium , distributed as 'favours' to the Roman people; in which case we must seek elsewhere for a prototype to the ecclesiastical orarium .
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

What I contend is that there is nothing in the present condition of the English public mind, and nothing in the prospect of the immediate future to warrant the almost universal assumption that the throne of England is founded on a rock.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

And on this subject St. Augustine says, in the Epistle to Dardanus , which in number is the 57th, " He shall come again in the same form and substance of the flesh, to which certainly he gave immortality; he hath not taken away the nature.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin