The nature of dialectic might be curiously illustrated by reference to Hegel's Logic; and though to approach the subject from Hegel's satirical angle is not, perhaps, quite honest or fair, the method has a certain spice.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“I really don’t quite know how to tell you,” replied the prince, “but it certainly did seem to me that the man was full of passion, and not, perhaps, quite healthy passion.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sunt sua praemia laudi, says Virgil; and so Cicero, Nihil habet natura praestantius, quam honestatem, quam laudem, quam dignitatem, quam decus, which he tells you are all names for the same thing.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Crowds of pretty sisters in airy costumes, and meekly ignorant parents who had known no college in their youth, were under convoy in the same direction by brothers and sons bearing the opinion written large on them that no properly qualified human beings had lived on earth till they came to grace it here and now.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

besides Heboca, v. to hunt with a hawk Hebog, n. a hawk, a falcon Heboglys, n. a hawkweed Hebogydd, n. a hawker Hebogyddiaeth, n. hawking Hebogyn, n. a single hawk Hebol, a. uttering, oral Hebraëg, n. Hebrew tongue Hebred, n. external coarse; state of evil, or transmigration Hebrediad, n. a traversing of the evil circle Hebredu, v. to go in the evil circle, to transmigrate Hwbrwng, n. a mission, a sending: v. to go on with, to send Hebryngiad, n. a sending Hebryngol, a. missive, sending Hebryngu, v. to go on with Hebryngydd, n. a conductor Hebu, v. to utter, to speak Heciad, n. a hopping Hecian, v. to halt, to hop, to limp Hecyn, n. a small notch Hecynu, v. to make a notch Hêd, n. a flight; also a hat Hedeg, n. a flying: v. to fly Hedegog, a. having flight, flying, soaring; lofty; aspiring Hedegol, a. volant, flying Hedfan, v. to fly Hediant, n. the act of flying Hedin, a. flying, volant, volatile Hediniad, n. volatilization Hedion, n. light corn; chaff Hedlam, n. a flying skip Hednaid, n. a flying leap Hedwr, Hedydd, n. one that flies; a lark Hedyn, n. a single seed Hedd, n. tranquility Heddaberth, n. peace-offering Heddgeidwad, n. a constable, a police officer Heddiad, n. a tranquilizing Heddog, a. tranquil, calm Heddswyddog, n. peace officer Heddu, v. to tranquilize Heddus, a. pacific, tranquil Hedduso, v. to make pacific Heddwch, n. peace, quietness Heddy, n. this day, the present day: adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

and in order to stay here now, atada con santos votos bound by a sacred vow para siempre, ni aún tenéis, eternally, you have no como otras, pruebas difíciles difficult penances to perform ni penitencias que hacer.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

fastidio est lumen gratuitum, dolet quod sole, quod spiritum emere non possimus, quod hic aer non emptus ex facili, &c. adeo nihil placet, nisi quod carum est. 1410 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Unde demonstrari non potest quod homo, aut cœlum, aut lapis non semper fuit.—Ibid.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

'Non pudet Laconas ne pugna quidem hostium, sed fabula vinci?
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

lo no venido por pasado No se engañe nadie, no, pensando que ha de durar lo que espera, mas que duro lo que
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

"Gratitude to the former of the Museum, and also to the donors to it, equally demand that its value and excellency should be publicly acknowledged and displayed, which consideration has goaded me on to undertake and imperfectly execute a task for which I feel myself not properly qualified." Here follows what is very candid in Abernethy, and honourable to Mr. Clift, who had very many debtors who were less communicative.
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

With this Bowles started the Lady , which, if not perhaps quite his own line of country, promised a bigger income than would ever be obtainable from his original venture.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

"Proof me no proofs," quoth Hampden, "Nay, Let Wallace get it if he may, I'll sue Walsh for it."
— from Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams

Joseph Arthur Couture, a notary public practicing in Montreal and in Maisonneuve, was born on the 29th of December, 1881, at Sherrington in the county of Napierville, P. Q., his parents being Jules and Dométhile (Bourgeois) Couture.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Now all my dissimulation was swallowed up in the eagerness of my desires, and I gave the priest no peace, questioning him again and again about the lady of whom he spoke; insomuch that I doubt not he suspected the truth.
— from Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. Paul by Edwin Abbott Abbott

So you see that nowadays physical qualities have much less to do than mental with the choice of occupations.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy