Las ambiciones turbulentas que agitan de tiempo en tiempo a estos hombres, no son eternas: ellas pasarán en la América del Sur como pasarán en Francia, como pasaron hace ya tiempo en Inglaterra.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There seem to have been two Mermaid Taverns, one of which stood in Bread Street with passage entrances from Cheapside and Friday Street, and the other in Cornhill.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

This was the name given to the volcanic plain extending from Cumæ to Capua, and supposed to have been once covered with fire; whence the name, from φλέγω , “to burn.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The senate speaks, and speaks with authority: Reddimus ad præsens.... habebimus.... dabitis presbetria.... jurabimus pacem et fidelitatem, &c. A chartula de Tenementis Tusculani, dated in the 47th year of the same æra, and confirmed decreto amplissimi ordinis senatûs, acclamatione P. R. publice Capitolio consistentis.
— 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

C'est normal de cloner une oeuvre d'autrui pour en faire cadeau; c'est partager.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It must please, either from considerations of self-interest, or from more generous motives and regards.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

I do not believe that the cultivation of the soil by slaves was confined to Italy; the holders of large estates in the provinces would probably, either from choice or necessity, adopt the same mode of cultivation.
— 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

In order that this result may be adequately exhibited, I must ask the reader to travel with me again through the series of principles elicited from Common Sense in the previous chapters, and to examine them from a somewhat different point of view.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Alexandria might have been relieved by a naval force, but the archbishop and the præfect embarked for Cyprus; and Chosroes entered the second city of the empire, which still preserved a wealthy remnant of industry and commerce.
— 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

They have provided employment for certain known persons at the expense of throwing out of employment certain other unknown persons.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

A parley ensued: full compensation was made for the stolen goods, and the aggrieved Frenchmen were farther propitiated with a gift of beaver-skins.
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

American Council on Education psychological examination for college freshmen, 1944 edition, by Louis Leon Thurstone & Thelma Gwinn Thurstone.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1972 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

2. The coast of the Propontis extends from Cyzicene and the places about the Æsepus and Granicus 1306 as far as Abydos, [Pg 339] and Sestos.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

[Pg 14] of facts, has deemed it proper to submit, as briefly as possible, extracts from Colonel Banes’ “History of the Philadelphia Brigade,” about what the Old Brigade did from the time it received the order to move from Falmouth, Va., until it met and turned backward the charge of Pickett’s Division at the “Bloody Angle” of Gettysburg, on the afternoon of July 3, 1863.
— from Reply of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to the Foolish and Absurd Narrative of Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell by Philadelphia Brigade Association

From the day that The Young Pole emerged from cabinot he was our friend.
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

gettarsi dopo lè spalle; anzi è consentaneo alla ragione di permeditarsi, et fare con la prudenza quei rimedy, che sono giudicati più conuenienti.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights.
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians by Richard Francis Weymouth