These men undertook to examine into the causes of a duel, and to settle or ‘take it up’ according to the rules laid down by the authorities on this subject.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

from whence we may understand that every perturbation of the mind is founded in opinion.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the other hand, it was a very decided success, inflicting a terrible destruction of supplies of every kind, and a heavy loss of men upon the enemy.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For my part, having for fifteen years been out of my element, finding myself upon the eve of returning to it, I paid no attention to their pleasantries.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This man, then, who was created of the dust of the earth, or of the moistened dust or clay,—this "dust of the earth" (that I may use the express words of Scripture) was made, as the apostle teaches, an animated body when he received a soul.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We must use their efforts to perfect the machinery of judgment, but we must be careful not to make the same use of it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“From the morning unto the evening, and from the evening unto the morning, for, placed as I am, all that I feel—my anxiety, my grief, all the wanderings of my mind—can be but a prayer in the eyes of the Divine Wisdom which alone sees my heart.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The essence of a triangle lies in a very little compass, consists in a very few ideas: three lines including a space make up that essence: but the properties that flow from this essence are more than can be easily known or enumerated.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Far back his thoughts had wandered, and before the eyes of his mind was the frail, fading form of a beloved sister, who had, years before, left her place and her mission upon the earth, and passed up higher.
— from Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

She must undertake the effort; she must accept and master a new method.
— from The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis

But her twitching lips belied her words, and the next moment the man was more uncomfortable than ever, being made so by her laughter.
— from Adventure by Jack London

Aberigh-Mackay early showed in his book "A Manual of Indian Sport," which, in addition to collecting in small compass lessons taught by many a noted Indian hunter, contains a great deal of original matter useful to every would-be sportsman, that he was well fitted to depict "The Shikarry" in correct and graphic manner and from actual personal knowledge.
— from Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay

Tasper Britt is not actor enough to make up the expression that I saw.
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

The ellipse is tested from time to time by removing the perforated plate further and further away from the mirror until the ellipse becomes practically a parabola.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir