One that uses paint and cosmetics, to obtain a fine complexion.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

There are an equal number of aulæ, surrounded by pillars, and contiguous to one another, all in one line and forming one building, like a long wall having the aulæ in front of it.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The eternal providence, in placing salutary simples beside noxious plants, and making poisonous animals contain their own antidote, has taught the sovereigns of the earth, who are its ministers, to imitate its wisdom.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And we should unavoidably have to assert that, because we can follow up these things in their causal combination only under the Idea of purposes, and cognise them only according to their conformity to law, we are thereby justified in assuming this as a condition necessary for every thinking and cognising being—a condition consequently attaching to the Object and not merely to our subject.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

They came from the General's heart; and a wonderful thing it is to think that the human heart is capable of generating such produce, and can throw out, as occasion demands, such a supply of lust and fury, rage and hatred.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

As we rightly perceive and name the same color under various lights, the same sound at various distances; so we seem to make an analogous sort of allowance for the varying amounts of attention with which objects are viewed; and whatever changes of feeling the attention may bring we charge, as it were, to the attention's account, and still perceive and conceive the object as the same.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Now, seeing all phenomena, whether considered as extensive or intensive, are continuous quantities, the proposition: “All change (transition of a thing from one state into another) is continuous,” might be proved here easily, and with mathematical evidence, were it not that the causality of a change lies, entirely beyond the bounds of a transcendental philosophy, and presupposes empirical principles.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Artful men, who study the passions of princes, and conceal their own, approached his person in the disguise of philosophic sanctity, and acquired riches and honors by affecting to despise them.
— 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

—Two Societies of Geography have been founded in the Portuguese African colonies, the one at Mozambique, the other at Loanda.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 11, November, 1881 by Various

Since the birth of Humanism not a few scholars had drawn attention to the languages in which the Bible was originally written; Luther, however, was the first who ventured to make a serious attempt to produce a complete translation of all the Sacred Books on the basis of the original text.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"And so, with four yeomen of the ship roused from restful hammocks to make memoranda of the addresses as fast as he pried them loose from the main pile and called them out, and with twelve able seamen of the watch to hustle the packages along as fast as the yeomen recorded them, and with forty other bustling bluejackets to load them into the boats, Pay tore into that pile of freight, which was about as high and twice as long and wide as a three-apartment house.
— from Running Free by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

The explorers noticed that the air of those highlands was so pure and clear that objects appeared to be much nearer than they really were.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

SUGGESTIONS FOR GAMES TO BE PLAYED AT CHRISTMAS TIME OR AT THANKSGIVING Put a very large pumpkin in the center of the room or on a grass plot.
— from Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger

Then he plucked and cleaned the others, and burned the feathers and entrails in the fire.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

It is much more capable of presenting a continuous thought or action to the mind.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

There was no question of employing the same ruse as in the Rue de Provence, and Cæsar thought of another.
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

The old language of gesture, with perhaps the occasional resort to a placard to supplement and interpret the "dumb motions" of the performers (a concession to, or an evasion of the old prohibition of speech in the "burletta houses"), vanished from the stage.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook