His, qui se unies sapiervtem profiteri sit ausus; “who alone durst profess himself a wise man.” Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit, et omnes Prstinxit stellas, exortus uti thereus Sol.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

More exactly, good sense or prudence signifies exclusively understanding at the command of the will.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Never minstrel, or by whatever more suitable name David should be known, drew upon his talents in the presence of more insensible auditors; though considering the singleness and sincerity of his motive, it is probable that no bard of profane song ever uttered notes that ascended so near to that throne where all homage and praise is due.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

L'idée est de: - développer un standard, dit UNL (Universal Networking Language), qui serait le HTML du contenu linguistique, - pour chaque langue, développer un générateur (dit "déconvertisseur") accessible sur un ou plusieurs serveurs, et un "enconvertisseur".
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Those seven wise men of Greece, those Britain Druids, Indian Brachmanni, Ethiopian Gymnosophist, Magi of the Persians, Apollonius, of whom Philostratus, Non doctus, sed natus sapiens , wise from his cradle, Eoicuras so much admired by his scholar Lucretius: Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit, et omnes Perstrinxit stellas exortus ut aetherius sol.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[ If the option of a slave was bequeathed to several legatees, they drew lots, and the losers were entitled to their share of his value; ten pieces of gold for a common servant or maid under ten years: if above that age, twenty; if they knew a trade, thirty; notaries or writers, fifty; midwives or physicians, sixty; eunuchs under ten years, thirty pieces; above, fifty; if tradesmen, seventy, (Cod. l. vi. tit. xliii.
— 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

However, he jogged along in his course of piracy snugly enough until he fell foul of the gallant Colonel Rhett, off Charleston Harbor, [36] whereupon his luck and his courage both were suddenly snuffed out with a puff of powder smoke and a good rattling broadside.
— from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main by Howard Pyle

Hugo is often pompous, shallow, empty, unreal, but he is at least an artist, and
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

Hugo is often pompous, shallow, empty, unreal, but he is at least an artist, and when he thinks of the artist and forgets the prophet, as in "Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois," his juggling with the verse is magnificent, superb.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

Our principles should enable us, also, I think, to define what we mean by a good environment.
— from Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

Substances, the odour of which could not be perceived by others, produced severe effects upon him.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

He was speaking fluently, though with a detestable accent, in a rough-and-ready, pick-up dialect of Parisian slang, evidently under the pleasant delusion that he employed the French language, while Pere Baudry contributed his share of the conversation in a slow patois.
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

The title of “Primitive Sun” enlightens us as to the original use of the word sun and the supreme importance accorded by the ancient star-gazers to the “Imperial ruler of heaven,” as the Chinese term the pole-star.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

One can count the little green oblong patches, stretching even up the mountain side, marked with gleaming white farm buildings or sometimes with little temples and chapels sacred to the rural gods.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

The ordinary pipe so extensively used in England is made from white clay, found chiefly at Purbeck, in Dorsetshire, and Newton Abbot, in Devonshire.
— from St Nicotine of the Peace Pipe by Edward Vincent Heward