He disowned, in solemn and explicit terms, the existence of the Deity to whose worship he had been consecrated, and devoted himself in future to the homage of liberty, equality, virtue, and morality.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
When thoughtless youth whom nothing grieves, Before whose inexperienced sight Life lies extended, vast and bright, To peer into the future tries.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Lampridius, Eutropius, Victor, and others, say that it was very glorious to Alexander; that he beat Artaxerxes in a great battle, and repelled him from the frontiers of the empire.
— 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
If that voice I babble of es el postrimer suspiro is the last sigh, above, de tu eterna despedida; of your eternal farewell; si es que de ti desprendida if that voice from your very self llega esa voz a la altura reaches the farthest sky, y hay un Dios tras esa anchura and there is a God on high, por donde los astros van, with stars on either hand, dile que mire a don Juan tell him to gaze at Don Juan, llorando en tu sepultura. by your tomb, and my weeping eyes.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
In the same low, eager voice, and the same close neighbourhood, he went on, reurging the same questions as before.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
This, to a large extent, Vollmer and Giarratano have accomplished.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
<li e` vendicata ancor>>, diss'io, < >.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A proud man who has suffered humiliation early in life and reached the stage of ‘mockery’ as you so subtly called it—Prince Harry, in fact, to use the capital nickname Stepan Trofimovitch gave him then, which would have been perfectly correct if it were not that he is more like Hamlet, to my thinking at least.” “Et vous avez raison,” Stepan Trofimovitch pronounced, impressively and with feeling.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nam 9 quō tūtiōrēs ab hostibus mīlitēs essent, nēve incautī et imparātī opprimerentur, castra fossā lātā et vāllō altō mūniēbant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
Whosoever on purpose, and of malice forethought, shall maim [50] another, or shall disfigure him, by cutting out or disabling the tongue, slitting or cutting off a nose, lip, or ear, branding, or otherwise, shall be maimed, or disfigured in like [51] sort: 155 or if that cannot be, for want of the same part, then as nearly as may be, in some other part of at least equal value and estimation, in the opinion of a jury, and moreover, shall forfeit one half of his lands and goods to the sufferer.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson
Tietjens, who had been lying underneath the table, rose up and went into the least exposed veranda as soon as her master moved to his own room, which was next to the stately chamber set apart for Tietjens.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling
16:19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous
Oxoniæ, recudebat Johannes Lichfield, et væneunt apud Eliam Pearse.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan
‘ Hæret lateri ,’ etc. Virgil, Aeneid , V. 73.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt
And yet he allows Phaedra [Footnote: Je l'aime, non point tel que l'ont vu les enfers, Volage adorateur de mille objets divers, Qui va du dieu des morts déshonorer la couche.]
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel
At any rate no larger eclipse visible at Medina occurred about this epoch.
— from The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers
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