in Ireland, which remained faithful to him, and the gradual disappearance from the ocean of the great French fleets, which Louis XIV. could no longer maintain, owing to the expense of that continental policy which he had chosen for himself.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Striking points of difference between the Poets of the present age and those of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries—Wish expressed for the union of the characteristic merits of both XVII Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth— Rustic life (above all, low and rustic life) especially unfavourable to the formation of a human diction-The best parts of language the product of philosophers, not of clowns or shepherds—Poetry essentially ideal and generic— The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager XVIII Language of metrical composition, why and wherein essentially different from that of prose—Origin and elements of metre —Its necessary consequences, and the conditions thereby imposed on the metrical writer in the choice of his diction XIX Continuation—Concerning the real object, which, it is probable, Mr. Wordsworth had before him in his critical preface—Elucidation and application of this XX The former subject continued—The neutral style, or that common to Prose and Poetry, exemplified by specimens from Chaucer, Herbert, and others XXI Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical journals XXII The characteristic defects of Wordsworth's poetry, with the principles from which the judgment, that they are defects, is deduced—Their proportion to the beauties—For the greatest part characteristic of his theory only SATYRANE'S LETTERS XXIII Critique on Bertram XXIV Conclusion So wenig er auch bestimmt seyn mag, andere zu belehren, so wuenscht er doch sich denen mitzutheilen, die er sich gleichgesinnt weis, (oder hofft,) deren Anzahl aber in der Breite der Welt zerstreut ist; er wuenscht sein Verhaeltniss zu den aeltesten Freunden dadurch wieder anzuknuepfen, mit neuen es fortzusetzen, und in der letzten Generation sich wieder andere fur seine uebrige Lebenszeit zu gewinnen.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

See the Chronicle of John Villani, (l. xi. c. 20, in Muratori's Collection, tom. xiii.
— 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

‘We will rest content with offering to our readers the following portrayal, quoted from Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. xiv, chap.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Love, 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 136 , 259 , 262 , 274 , 286 , 296 , 321 , 335 , 336 , 348 , 349 , 351 , 353 , 361 , 371 , 374 , 385 , 395 , 396 , 402 , 417 , 418 , 422 , 430 , 440 , 441 , 459 , 466 , 471 , 473 , 499 , 500 , 501 , X , XI , XIII , LVIII , LX , LXII , LXXXVIII , XCIX , CIII , CXXI . —— defined, 68 .
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

The striking apparatus of a pretty little Louis XVI clock that hung at the head of her bed having got out of order, she noticed it.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In the salon to the right, I have noticed the Louis XIII cadence-table, the tapestries of Beauvais, the Empire gueridon signed ‘Jacob,’ and the Renaissance chest.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Glanv., Lib. X. c. 12; Dugdale, Antiq.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The character of Hannibal, as drawn by Livy, [Footnote: Lib. xxi. cap. 4] is esteemed partial, but allows him many eminent virtues.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

It is possible that there may have been some rancor on Ferdinand’s part against Gualbes who, as an eloquent preacher and fervid popular orator, had done much, in 1461, to stimulate the resistance of the Catalans to Juan II, after the death of the heir-apparent, Carlos Prince of Viana, which was attributed to poison administered by Queen Juana Henríquez to open for her son Ferdinand the path to the throne (Zurita, Añales, Lib. XVII , cap.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

Louis XV. commissioned him to paint the principal French ports.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Louis XIII claimed with eager hand the victory which his minister had procured for him; he had contributed himself, however, only that grandeur which consists in personal valor.
— from Cinq Mars — Volume 3 by Alfred de Vigny

They were introduced into France in the latter part of the 15th century, and frequently employed by Lewis XI., Charles VIII., and Lewis XII.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

London XII Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy XIII
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

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— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

lib. xx. cap.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

H2 anchor CHAPTER XLIII Terror of the king—A complication—Filial piety of the princesses—Last interview between madame du Barry and Louis XV—Conversation with the maréchale de Mirepoix—The chancellor Maupeou—The fragment—Comte Jean Perhaps no person ever entertained so great a dread of death as Louis XV, consequently no one required to be more carefully prepared for the alarming intelligence so abruptly communicated by La Martinière, and which, in a manner, appeared to sign the king’s death-warrant.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

Gen. , dec. iv., lib. x., cap.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

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— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford