Accordingly, [Pg 452] so far as present comfort goes, the first man in Paradise was more blessed than any just man in this insecure state; but as regards the hope of future good, every man who not merely supposes, but certainly knows that he shall eternally enjoy the most high God in the company of angels, and beyond the reach of ill,—this man, no matter what bodily torments afflict him, is more blessed than was he who, even in that great felicity of Paradise, was uncertain of his fate.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

5. Omnēs ferē Germānī erant magnīs corporum vīribus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

5. Omnês ferê Germânî erant magnîs corporum vîribus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Mankind becomes dwarfed in mind and body, for the fatal principle of conformity of fortune governs every matrimonial alliance.
— from Parisians in the Country by Honoré de Balzac

And now this man (having no companion for drinking or for gambling) espied me against the wall of the house, and advanced to the brink, and challenged me.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

It is sufficient to have noticed in the inventive powers of Raffaello, those circumstances which have been less frequently remarked; the movement of the passions, which is entirely the work of expression, the delight which proceeds from poetical conceptions, or from graceful episodes, may be said to speak for themselves, nor have any occasion to be pointed out by us.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

It was already past mid-day and Ta-his-ka had repeatedly turned his face to speak encouraging words to the young wife, while with covert uneasiness he watched the volumes of pale smoke rolling up from the line of horizon far behind, and now that they had entered one of those vast luxuriant bottoms so dreaded, even by the Indians, in autumn, although nothing but the sky overhead could be perceived, through the parted tops of the tall grass and reeds, it was no longer to be hidden even from the terrified Ka-Morse, that a dimness had spread above not occasioned by clouds, and that the scent of fire grew every moment less faint and uncertain.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850 by Various

When to us all nature was Wonderland, and the four-footed, the birds, and the fishes, among our play-fellows; when in fireside tale and rhyme they spoke our language and lived that free life which we then shared and can never share again, the feeling of kinship to which the old fables gave expression may have checked many a wanton act, and, if we learned it not fully then, we may have taken the lesson to heart since— “Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that lives.”
— from Myths and Dreams by Edward Clodd