The hope of making peace Spês faciendae pâcis The hope of making peace Dat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

* I refer to this review at present, in consequence of information having been given me, that the inuendo of my "potential infidelity," grounded on one passage of my first Lay Sermon, has been received and propagated with a degree of credence, of which I can safely acquit the originator of the calumny.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

However, as I saw it would please M. de Malipiero, I finally consented to accept, as a substitute for mine, a text offered by the abbe, although it did not suit in any way the spirit of my production; and in order to get an opportunity for a visit to his niece, I gave him my manuscript, saying that I would call for it the next day.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He’s de smartes’ man in dis town, less’n it’s Jedge Driscoll or maybe Pem Howard.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

It’s only making preparations at this point.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But as it was, the greater part of them got across the River Trebia in time; while those who were after all too far in the rear to escape, were either killed or made prisoners by the Carthaginians.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Soon after I arived at this river an old man passed down of the Clark a'mos Nation who are noumerous and reside on a branch of this river which receives it's waters from Mt.,Jefferson which is emensely high and discharges itself into this river one day and a half up, this distance I State at 40 Miles.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

What these cases show is that the mere organic retentiveness of a man need bear no definite relation to his other mental powers.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

On the principles of the corpuscular or mechanical philosophy, the only realities are the separate molecules, or at most the cells.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

[My late illustrious friend, Baron A. E. Nordenskiöld , who has devoted much time and labour to the study of Marco Polo (see his Periplus , Stockholm, 1897), and published a facsimile edition of one of the French MSS. kept in the Stockholm Royal Library (see vol.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[246] In their houses there was less of the strict academical etiquette, and as they were fond of music, particularly the Donkins, I spent some really delightful evenings with them.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Sir Wilfrid was the one man, perhaps, in French-Canada who was opposed, through most of his political career by the bishops of his race, yet he had the satisfaction of seeing the clergy, both high and low, rally to his side during the crowning act of his life, and oppose conscription.
— from Sir Wilfrid Laurier by Peter McArthur

One cause of the change of England's course toward us is to be found in our own change of moral position.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He would so soon have found out—on mechanical principles—the peg in the neck of the Enchanted Horse, and would have turned it the right way in so workmanlike a manner, that the horse could never have got any height into the air, and the story couldn’t have been.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

In this unequal conquest I was vanquished at the end of four years; and, like many another harebrained youngster, I was obliged to sell part of my property and to mortgage the remainder to satisfy my creditors.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It showed a disregard of my personal feelings, of all adult human weakness.
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

Marmaduke advancing across the room from the door which he had opened, met Peggy’s mocking eyes as she stood on the hearthrug with her hands behind her back.
— from The Rough Road by William John Locke

To speak of a disposition to avoid a mean action as "a noble pride," is a perversion of language, as well as of moral principle.
— from A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge by John Breckinridge

He blessed the prayers and the labours of my parents, so that I never remember a time when I could rest in any other trust; yet, till now, I never knew that hope in its full strength and brightness.'
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton