Quod cum audivisset adulescens filius negotium exhiberi patri , accurrisse Romam et cum prima luce Pomponii domum venisse dicitur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Quod cum audivisset adulescens filius, negotium exhiberi patri, accurrisse Romam et cum primo luci
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He was a very peculiar and rather eccentric character, rough and sarcastic in manner, an excellent sailor, and a kind-hearted man.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

When, by a succession of violences, they had pillaged and robbed every country from the recesses of the Adriatic to the Euphrates, and had sense enough to enjoy the fruit of their rapine; when they cultivated the arts, and tasted all the pleasures of life, and communicated them also to the nations which they conquered; then, we are told, they ceased to be wise and good.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

Well, I soon stopped the performance and required each child to read separately: whereupon it turned out that, in the upper standards of this school of 70 or 80 children, one only— this disdainful girl—could get through half a dozen easy sentences with credit.
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

There is [113] no other such true symbol of the glories of the better world, where a celestial radiance will be inherent in all things and persons, and render each continually transparent to the sight of all."
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

Of fellowship, I speak, fit to participate All rational enjoyment." CONTENTS Autogenerated TOC.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

It would be well if all who talked publicly about religious education could be sentenced [89] to devote a month to the personal study of religious instruction as it is ordinarily given in elementary schools.
— from What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Edmond Holmes