And longer still shall fame be before it deserts Curius, and Fabricius, and Calatinus, 59 and the two Scipios, and the two Africani, and Maximus, and Marcellus, and Paulus, and Cato, and Lælius, and numberless other heroes; and whoever has caught any resemblance of them, not estimating it by common fame, but by the real applause of good men, may with confidence, when the occasion requires, approach death, on which we are sure that even if the chief good is not continued, at least no evil is.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They built a balloon or 'globe' of paper and canvas, and lit a fire of wood and straw below the aperture in it.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

But unnatural unions of another kind continued to prevail at Crete and Lacedaemon, and were even justified by the example of the Gods.
— from Laws by Plato

The building of the Young Men's Christian Association is on Fulton street, at the corner of Gallatin Place, and contains a library and free reading room.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

She would like something alive to pet and cherish and love, and so one day he brought her a little naked monkey, that even when he nestled close to her breast could not get warm, and in his wrath spat in her face scorn of her yearning caresses.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Soon Laurentius died too, and Mellitus was called to take his place, and consecrated at last a church in London in the monastery of St. Peter.
— from Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

Human beings are restless and active in their very nature, and will do something, and that something will prove a care, a labor, and a fatigue, arrange it how you will.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In behalf of the subject I want to show what fairy tales must possess as classics, as literature and composition, and as short-stories; to trace their history, to classify the types, and to supply the sources of material.
— from A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Fry Kready

Of these festivals, the 'Oki-don-tako,' or 'Great Holiday,' which takes place about Christmas, and lasts a fortnight, is the most important.
— from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs by J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier) Silver

That she should have produced a Catullus, a Lucretius, a Vergil, a Horace, and—most wonderful of all—an Ovid was an amazing achievement, rendered not the less astonishing when it is remembered that the stern bent of the practical Roman mind did not in earlier days give high promise of poetry.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

According to it, Algol possesses a companion as large as the sun, but invisible, both because of its proximity to that star and because it yields no light, and revolving in a plane horizontal to our line of sight.
— from Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss

Then this confession should be perpetuated and continued as long as we are in this life, for that is imported by comparing this verse with those it stands between.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning