I pity Prince Vasíli but am still more sorry for Pierre.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Indignissimus plerumque praefertur, Vatinius Catoni, illaudatus laudatissimo ; [3955] ———servi dominantur; aselli Ornantur phaleris, dephalerantur equi.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
It may be worth mentioning here that Dante sees in Purgatory ( Purg. viii.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Tis unhandsome to fight in play Preachers very often work more upon their auditory than reasons Preface to bribe the benevolence of the courteous reader Prefer in bed, beauty before goodness Preferring the universal and common tie to all national ties Premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty Prepare ourselves against the preparations of death
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
gñale et fo cauſa de Comouerlo apigliar qʒſta inpreſa perche piu volte eſſendo Lo ñro cap o amalacha li haueua ſcripto
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
return Footnote 10: In privately printed volume 1842.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
7. Holbrenner the Lutheran in Pistorium, Polydore Virg. l. 1. de prodig.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
III cessô confirmô oppugnô vetô accipiô incipiô petô ponô vincô vivô 518.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
I praised Paris very warmly.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
In passing Prince Vasíli seized Pierre’s hand and said to Anna Pávlovna: “Educate this bear for me!
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
IMG IMAGE END The Sorbonne, in particular, pronounced vehemently against them.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot
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— from The Iron Boys in the Mines; or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by James R. Mears
Near these ancient graves I renewed my acquaintance with the old familiar vizcacha of the plains of Buenos Ayres, which I have previously pointed out does not exist in Patagonia proper, viz., to the south of the Rio Negro.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters
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— from Madge Morton's Trust by Amy D. V. Chalmers
Having thus started the civil government and Indian service, and set the young men of the exploration hard at work preparing the reports, and, as already related, dispatched McClellan to run the line from the Sound to the Snoqualmie Pass, the governor took the Sarah Stone, a small sailboat, or “plunger,” and, accompanied by Mr. George Gibbs, went down the Sound in person, in order, as he states, “to visit and take a census of the Indian tribes, learn something of the general character of the Sound and its harbors, and to visit Vancouver Island and its principal port, Victoria.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens
He succeeded in putting pretty vividly before his young brother the position in which he had placed himself by going down to the public-house and associating with a man like Cripps.
— from The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's: A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
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