The exploits of Theodoric soon convinced the world that he had not degenerated from the warlike virtues of his ancestors.
— 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

By this they are not distinguished from other knowable Truths.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

'Tis an old saying, Sint Mecaenates, non deerunt Flacce Marones , and 'tis a true saying still.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Indeed it is a positive disadvantage, and a witty ambassador would no doubt fall into disgrace with the Venetian Senate.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For, as Heraclitus says, the sun will never deviate from its bounds, for if it did, the Furies, who are the ministers of Justice, would find it out.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

But I was soon relieved by one of our servants, who wrung off the bird's neck, and I had him next day for dinner by the queen's command.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

The sense for life in things, be they small or great, is not derived from the abstract idea of their bodies but is an ancient concomitant to that idea, inseparable from it until it became abstract.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Conceptions are not derived from a multitude of [Pg 128] different definite objects by leaving out the qualities in which they differ and retaining those in which they agree.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Thou shalt the world this day behold In wild disorder uncontrolled, With dying life which naught defends From the fierce storm my bowstring sends.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

"No, I am not devot —few people are, unless they have been peculiarly brought up, at our age."
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

As he was a friend of Yasine, and Shekh el Nile, I never doubted from that minute that this was a contrivance of theirs in my favour.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

It took new details from day to day, filling in the picture.
— from The Delectable Mountains by Arthur Colton

Furthermore, it was in Milton's luminous, majestic Latin prose that Cromwell sent his demands to King Louis for these poor, pious peasants,—demands not disregarded, for all that could be found alive were returned to their desolated homes.
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

Mary was still wandering about the Continent, and mentioning no date for her return.
— from Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

With these monsters did these ladies (finding none other to satisfie the motions of their sensuall lust) ioine in the act of venerie, and ingendred a race of people in proportion nothing differing from their fathers that begat them, nor in conditions from their mothers that bare them.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

It has indeed been often assumed that a statute enacted early in the reign of Henry VII. gave the first legal authority to the criminal jurisdiction exercised by that famous court, which in reality was nothing else but another name for the ancient concilium regis, of which our records are full, and whose encroachments so many statutes had endeavoured to repress; a name derived from the chamber wherein it sat, and which is found in many precedents before the time of Henry VII., though not so specially applied to the council of judicature as afterwards.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

Hereupon Philopœmen went himself to the rescue with the men of his [Pg 144] own city, who did not delay for any formal vote to empower him to do so, but followed him because he was born to command.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

[820] San Francisco mountain, Arizona, petroglyphs near, 48-49 San Marcos pass, California, petroglyphs near, 64 San Juan river, Colorado, petroglyphs near, 73 petroglyphs on, 74-75 Santa Barbara, California, coloring matter of pictographs in, 221 Santa Lucia Cosumalhuapa, Guatemala, sculptures of, 226 Sapiel Selmo, Passamaquoddy chief, 338 Satsika (Blackfeet) Indians, insignia of Tail Bearer of, 429 societies of, 528-529 Sawyer, Wells M., acknowledgments to, 30 Scandinavian colors for war and peace, 635 Scarification, 416-418 Schoolcraft, Henry R., exaggerated accounts of Ojibwa pictographs by, 202 Scotland, cup sculptures in, 193 Scythian declaration of war, 362 Seeman, Berthold, remarks by, on cup sculptures, 193-194 Serpent, pictographs of, 476-477 emblematic use of, 617 Serrano Indians of California, property marks of, 441 face mark of, 621 Shafer, P. W., pictographs published by, 106-10 Shaman, definition of term, 490-499 Shamanism, 490-500 Shastika Indian women, face decoration of, 220 Shawnees, battle of, with Cherokees, 122 Shells, pictographs on, 209-210 Shinumo canyon, Arizona, petroglyphs in, 51-121 Short, pictographs for, 600 Shoshoni Indians, petroglyphs interpreted by, 128 , 129 use of notched sticks by, for recording time, 227 pictographic notice of hunt by, 331 pictographic notice of guidance by, 353-354 tribal designations of, 387-388 biographical record of, 578 gesture signs of, for cold, 606 petroglyphs by, 680-682 Shuswap Indians of British Columbia, notices by, 340 Siberia, use of knotted cords for mnemenic purposes in, 226 petroglyphs in, 186-188 tattooing in, 414 Siberian and Tartar inscriptions, 188 Sicasica, Peru, writings found at, 672 Sierra Leone, scarification in, 417 Sight, pictographs for, 600-601 Signs, symbols, and emblems, 607-618 classification of, 607-609 Simons, A. B., clay articles loaned by, XXII Siouan dialects, work in, XIX Siouan family, divisions of, 272 Sioux or Dakota Indians, paper prepared on camping circles of, XIX tribal designations of, 379-388 origin of name of, 272 message of, to Ojibwa, 360 exploit marks of, 433-435 sign of mourning of, 519 cult societies of, 528 record of battle by, 563-566 mourning color, 629-630 colors for victory used by, 632 Six Nations, deed from, to King of Great Britain, 378 Skins, pictographs on, 206-207 Slow, pictographs for, 601 Snanaimuq Indians, war paint of, 632 Snow, pictographs for, 605-606 Social and religious missives, 362-374 Songs, order of, 231-250 explanation of, 231-232 Sonora, Mexico, petroglyphs in, 131 , 749 South Africa, petroglyphs in, 180-183 South America petroglyphs in, 142-160 tattoo in, 407 South Carolina, war color of Indians in, 632 South Dakota, petroglyphs in, 114 South Sea Islanders, mnemonic devices of, 224 Spain, petroglyphs in, 177-178 Spaniards, ceremonial use of color by, 629 Spanish and Brazilian petroglyphs, 690 Special comparisons, 676-744 Stephen. A. M., work of, XVII - XVIII Stevenson, James notice of death and biographic sketch of, XXIV - XXV on ceremonial use of colors by Zuñi, 623 paper by, mentioned, 210 Stone of the Giants, Mexico, 138 Stone, pictographs on, 205-206 Strings used for mnemonic purposes, 223 Substances on which pictographs are made, 205-217 Supernatural, symbols of the, 462-468 Susanville, California, pictographs near, 69 Swan, James G., contribution by, on tattoo, 402 Sweden, petroglyphs in, 173-175 Symbolism, development of, 609-610 Symbols of the supernatural, 462-468 Syllabaries and alphabets, 664-675 development of, 664-665 Syrian symbols, 616-618 T. Taboo, 504-505 Tall, pictograph for, 601-602 Tallies or notched sticks, in Great Britain, 228 Tamanaques Indians, legend of, 33 Tartars, use of notched sticks as records by, 228 notice of warning by, 357 magic drums of, 514-517 Tassin, A. G., drawing and explanation of petroglyphs by, 95
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery