The young people, prematurely exhausted, remain small, puny, and misshapen, they grow old instead of growing up, like a vine forced to bear fruit in spring, which fades and dies before autumn.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Note 168 ( return ) 168/1 "Peterit enim rem suam petere
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Fatmir MEDIU]; Social Democracy Party of Albania or PDSSh [Paskal MILO]; Social Democratic Party or PSD [Skender GJINUSHI]; Socialist Movement for Integration or LSI [Ilir META]; Socialist Party or PS [Edi RAMA]; Socialist Party 1991 [Petro KOCI]; Union for Human Rights Party or PBDNj [Vangjel DULE]
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Petrarch easily renounced salted provisions, "but, as to fruits," he says, "Nature must have been a very unnatural mother to give us such agreeable food, with such delightful hues and fragrance, only to seduce her children with poison covered over with honey."
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

In vain did the military protest, entreat, remonstrate; she proceeded to nibble at her sandwiches and defied them to fire.
— from A Book of Dartmoor Second Edition by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“And I haven't told a living soul about it—not even Aunt Phoebe,” Evadna remarked, still painfully virtuous.
— from Good Indian by B. M. Bower

[Rahmatullo ZOIROV]; People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMONOV]; Socialist Party [leader NA]; Tajik Communist Party or CPT
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Des réformes à opérer dans l'exploitation des chemins de fer, et des conséquences qui peuvent en résulter soit pour l'augmentation du r
— from Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher

Neque inter piscantes ullum iis impedimentum, aut, molestia asseratur Neque à Navibus præsidiariis hujus Reipublicæ, neque ab iis quibus Diplomate permissum est, res suas privatim suo marte repetere, nec a piscantibus in Boreali plagâ Britanniæ, piscationis nomine onera aliqua exigantur, immo omnes humaniter atque amice tractentur, usque retia in Littore siccare, quemque opus est commeatum ab eorum Locorum Incolis, justo pretio comparare sibi licebit.”
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Passing through Cornhill and Chepe, the procession eventually reached St. Paul's.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

On reaching the summit of the volcano, the various families and individuals again present their offerings to the priests, who mumble over them a few additional words: they are then thrown into the crater, each person eagerly repeating some prayer or wish.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams