After the loss of his two bravest generals, Justinian and Nevigastes, the former of whom was slain in the field of battle, the latter in a peaceful but treacherous interview, Constantine fortified himself within the walls of Vienna.
— 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

Thus all errors of subreptio—of misapplication, are to be ascribed to defects of judgement, and not to understanding or reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But to shew how a Rant pleases beyond the most just and natural Thought that is not pronounced with Vehemence, I would desire the Reader when he sees the Tragedy of Œdipus , to observe how quietly the Hero is dismissed at the End of the third Act, after having pronounced the following Lines, in which the Thought is very natural, and apt to move Compassion; To you, good Gods, I make my last Appeal; Or clear my Virtues, or my Crimes reveal.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

They've just a notion, these common folks, of its being a respect to the departed.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

This is one cause of the diminished export to Jamaica, and not the childish idea of the author, of an impossible contraband from the opening of the ports.—2nd, The war had brought a great influx of cash into America, for the pay and provision of the troops; and this an unnatural increase of trade, which, as its cause failed, must in some degree return to its ancient and natural bounds.—3rd, When the merchants met from all parts, and compared their accounts, they were alarmed at the immensity of the debt due to them from America.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Many things did he do like this, or even more wonderful He had three sons: one hight Jupiter, another Neptune, the third Pluto.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

for both ought to be avoided, and the irrational feelings are thought to be just as natural to man as reason, and so of course must be such actions of the individual as are done from Anger and Lust.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Some roll a vast stone, or hang outstretched on the spokes of wheels; hapless Theseus sits and shall sit for ever, and Phlegyas in his misery gives counsel to all and witnesses aloud through the gloom, Learn by this warning to do justly and not to slight the gods.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Nothing makes a dog so angry as kicking at him, and Tip jumped and nipped the man's finger.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

From Virginia —Thomas Claiborne, John Dawson, John W. Eppes, Thomas Griffin, David Holmes, John G. Jackson, Joseph Lewis, jun., Anthony New, Thomas Newton, jun., John Randolph, Thomas M. Randolph, John Smith, James Stephenson, and Philip R. Thompson.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Mrs. Eddy apparently believes that Jesus Christ taught us to ignore family relations: "Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

"You know," she continued drowsily, "I think that Von Bieberstein is just a name they've given to all the things they can't solve.
— from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin

One famous judge, who was afterwards governor, when sentencing a murderer, impressed it upon his mind, and wished him to inform his friends, that it was the jury and not the judge who had found him guilty, and then asked him on what day he would like to be hanged.
— from Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

However, among the Kayans of the same region, who share the same view as to the ill effect of eating venison, men will partake of the dangerous viand provided it is cooked in the open air, for then the timid spirit of the animal is supposed to escape at once into the jungle and not to enter into the eater.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We believe here at Hillton that it is just as necessary to keep a boy’s health good as his morals, and our plan has worked admirably for many years.
— from For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport by Ralph Henry Barbour

Mr. Boothby, also an irreclaimable gamester and an intimate friend of Fox, speaking of the latter said, "He was unquestionably a man of first-rate talents, but so deficient in judgment as never to have succeeded in any object during his whole life.
— from Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf by Ralph Nevill