In his De Monarchia he had, by an exhaustive treatment of propositions which now seem [Pg c] childish or else the mere commonplaces of everyday political argument, established the right of the civil power to independence of Church authority; and though to the Scaliger who aimed at becoming Imperial lieutenant for all the North of Italy he might seem needlessly tender to the spiritual lordship of the Holy Father, yet the drift of his reasoning was all in favour of the Ghibeline position.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

la beauté ne soient pas considérées comme des biens de consommation.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

la travesía no se encuentra una gota de agua, ni se ve ni se puede contar con un parapeto que le permita ampararse para descansar un momento del incómodo y frío viento que penetra por sobre todo abrigo; que del mismo modo
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

His face reddened and he twitched his reins angrily; but the next second prudential considerations checked him.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[Pg iv] COPYRIGHT, 1904, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE COMPANY COLOURED PLATES COPYRIGHTED, 1897, BY THE NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, ILL.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan

No serious person can claim the possibility of a check upon such research.
— from The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War by Victor Lefebure

Noticed sledges, ponies, &c., cast shadows all round.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

[433] borrar hasta los nombres propios de los mandatarios, para que la autoridad que preside los nuevos destinos de la patria, se sienta como influencia benéfica, y no se palpe como cosa natural, aspirando a dotarla, en su noble exaltación democrática, con los atributos de una entidad sobrehumana.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

This may have been tactful on his part, it may have brought his article nearer to the comprehension of his readers (that is, those of the "New Statesman," people chiefly concerned with sociology of the "button" and "unit" variety).
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

copyright, 1897 by Nature Study Publishing Co. chicago.
— from Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 1 [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life by Various

A statistician drawing his deductions from figures may feel indifferent towards people, but we census-takers, who see these people and who have no scientific prepossessions, cannot conduct ourselves towards them in an inhuman manner.
— from The Census in Moscow by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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— from Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 by Various