We have no need to exaggerate their inanity; they themselves will make us sufficiently sensible of it, thanks to our sick wet-blanket mind, that puts us out of taste with them as with itself; it treats both itself and all it receives, one while better, and another worse, according to its insatiable, vagabond, and versatile essence: “Sincerum est nisi vas, quodcunque infundis, acescit.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If a cutting instrument were passed horizontally from before backward, a little below M, it would first open the abdomen, then pierce the arching diaphragm, and pass into the thorax, opposite the ninth or eighth dorsal vertebra.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The Gazette of the 31st, in addition to the departure of the Mohawk for York, as above, gives us also the following piece of information whence we learn that in the trade of the Lake, a competition from the United States side was about to begin:—"On the same day (the day when the Mohawk sailed for York), arrived here (Niagara) a Deck-boat, built and owned by Col. John Van Rensselaer, of Lansingburg, on the North River.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The name of Fulmen Excommunicationis (that is, the Thunderbolt Of Excommunication) proceeded from an imagination of the Bishop of Rom
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And the Cretans are said to have invented the tale of Zeus and Ganymede in order to justify their evil practices by the example of the God who was their lawgiver.
— from Laws by Plato

Ennius, who flourished in the time of the Second Punic War, was regarded in the Augustan age as the father of Latin poetry.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The construction will be diastyle when we can insert the thickness of three columns in an intercolumniation, as in the case of the temple of Apollo and Diana.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

So set Mrs. Turner home, and then we home, and I to the Office a little; and so home and to bed, my wife in an ill humour still.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

William Harper, merchant-taylor, mayor 1562, founded a free school in the town of Bedford, where he was born, and also buried.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Pierre tried several times to speak, but, on one hand, Prince Vasíli did not let him and, on the other, Pierre himself feared to begin to speak in the tone of decided refusal and disagreement in which he had firmly resolved to answer his father-in-law.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

What need is there then of disputation as to whence God took any particular portion of created material, who by one word of his mouth can create and did create all things?
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

John (p. 357) Philpot Curran, the celebrated Irish lawyer and orator, died at Brompton, October 14, 1817; and Samuel Lysons, the eminent Antiquary, who was Keeper of the Records when they were in the Tower of London, whose "Environs of London" is still a standard book of reference, expired June 29, 1819.
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

But he endeavored to show the results of Gospel criticism in the text of the book.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

'The Holy Father blessed it; to the one who recites it every day, pardon is granted.'
— from Count Brühl by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

I had just come, jaded from examination papers, agued with the incessant ring of orations, abhorrent of the rustle of white tarlatans, distrustful of the future attitude of trustees, and utterly wilted from the effect of a country academy exhibition held in the heat of June in the torridest of Western towns.
— from A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward

Could she have herself perpetrated the treachery that she ascribed to him, and have given the information to the officers, in order in this way to be rid of one whom she had good reason for wishing out of the way?
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

In the time of Napoleon I., Lord Elgin, the famous spoliator of the Parthenon, on his way back from Constantinople, came for the recovery of his health to the springs of Barrèges, where he was arrested by the government and brought to the castle of Lourdes.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

In later secret overtures it appeared that the prince was well aware of the circumstances of the Romans; he mentioned the invitations which had been addressed to him from Rome to put Caesar out of the way, and offered, if Caesar would leave to him northern Gaul, to assist him in turn to obtain the sovereignty of Italy—as the party-quarrels of the Celtic nation had opened up an entrance for him into Gaul, he seemed to expect from the party- quarrels of the Italian nation the consolidation of his rule there.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

The fact is, the piano-player is turning thousands of supposedly humdrum, prosaic people into musical enthusiasts, to their own immense surprise.
— from The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno