No curule magistrates could be chosen; no military muster could be held.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In short, all varieties of Method may conveniently be classed under three heads: Intuitionism and the two kinds of Hedonism, Egoistic and Universalistic.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

v 1 [APB26; c1] make charcoal; become charcoal.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But unless a motto could be composed of the same excellence as that in Fan Shih-hu's song on farms, it will not be adequate to express its charms!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

By the grace of my using the prayer called ‘ Kundang Maya Chinta Bĕrahi ’ Concentrate your thoughts on me, Be enamoured of me, Be distraught for love of me, Distraught both by day and by night, Distraught seven times in the day, And distraught seven times in the night.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There is, indeed, a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are, in some measure, corrected by common sense and reflection.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

But without such a definite concept you cannot infer a unique intelligent original Being; you can only assume it (with whatever motive).—Now it may certainly be conceded that you should arbitrarily add (for Reason has nothing fundamental to say to the contrary): Where so much perfection is found, we may well assume that all perfection is united in a unique Cause of the world, because Reason succeeds better both theoretically and practically with a principle thus definite.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Thence, going out, Mrs. Pierce called me from the gallery, and there I took her and Mrs. Corbet by coach up and down, and took up Captain Rolt in the street; and at last, it being too late to go to the Park, I carried them to the Beare in Drury Lane, and there did treat them with a dish of mackrell, the first I have seen this year, and another dish, and mighty merry; and so carried her home, and thence home myself, well pleased with this evening’s pleasure, and so to bed. 5th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“The first lieutenant and myself were immediately escorted into the ship alongside, when we found her to be an American ship-of-war, called the Bonne Homme Richard , of forty guns and 375 men, commanded by Captain Paul Jones; the other frigate which engaged us to be the Alliance , of forty guns and 300 men; and the third frigate, which engaged and took the Countess of Scarborough after two hours’ action, to be the Pallas , a French frigate, of thirty guns and 274 men; the Vengeance , an armed brig of twelve guns and seventy men: all in Congress service, under the command of Paul Jones.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

I was sick but they put me on a little bed and me and all the little chillun rode in a 'Jersey' that one of the old Negro mammies drove, along behind the wagons, and our young master, Colonel Bob Chaney rode a great big black horse.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by United States. Work Projects Administration

This { 74} cannot occur in the case of the eye; because if thou presentest a beautiful living mortal to the eye, composed of a harmony of fair limbs, its beauty is not so transient nor so quickly destroyed as that of music; on the contrary it has permanent duration, and allows thee to behold and consider it; and it is not reborn as in the case of music which is played many times over, nor will it weary thee: on the contrary, thou becomest enamoured with it, and the result it produces is that all the senses, together with the eye, would wish to possess it, and it seems that they would wish to compete with the eye: it appears that the mouth desires it for itself, if the mouth can be considered as a sense; the ear takes pleasure in hearing its beauty; the sense of touch would like to penetrate into all its pores; the nose also would like to receive the air it exhales.
— from Thoughts on Art and Life by da Vinci Leonardo

From this the place received its first name, and whatever honor was attached to it was given Mr. Clark by calling it Clark's Ford.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

Atolli varied in consistency from porridge, or gruel, to mush, and may consequently be classed either as a drink or as food.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

My dear friend Palmer, assistant professor of philosophy here, is already one of the white-winged band, having been made captive by Caird in two summers of vacation in Scotland....
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

MY CHICAGO BIBLE CLASS. (1879.)
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

On the 7th of April the Royals were sent to the relief of a corps of Portuguese militia, commanded by Colonel Trant, who had taken post near Fort Conception .
— from Historical Record of the First, or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons Containing an Account of Its Formation in the Reign of King Charles the Second, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1839 by Richard Cannon

The bearing of the work for the one hundred thousand Chinese in this country on foreign missions can be clearly seen.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889 by Various

If Mr. Partridge has practised the same experiment upon himself, and be again alive, long may he continue so; that does not in the least contradict my veracity: But I think I have clearly proved, by invincible demonstration, that he died at farthest within half an hour of the time I foretold, and not four hours sooner, as the above-mentioned author, in his letter to a lord, hath maliciously suggested, with design to blast my credit, by charging me with so gross a mistake.
— from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift