3 An equal amount of praise is due for the consistency with which the characters of the animals, fictitiously introduced, are marked.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

According to this passage, therefore, the name Pamphylians is derived from πᾶν, “all,” and φῦλον, “nation.”
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

In that country society is plunged into difficulties from which all its efforts are insufficient to rescue it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

SOME MOTIVE TO PRODUCE IT, DISTINCT FROM THE SENSE OF ITS MORALITY.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I should show What party I do follow.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"The Representatives of the people remaining at liberty, by virtue of Article 68 of the Constitution, which runs as follows:— "'Article 68.—Every measure by which the President of the Republic dissolves the Assembly, prorogues it, or obstructs the exercise of its authority, is a crime of High Treason. "'By this action alone the President is deposed from his office; the citizens are bound to refuse him obedience; the executive power passes by right to the National Assembly; the judges of the High Court of Justice should meet together immediately under penalty of treason, and convoke the juries in a place which they shall appoint to proceed to the judgment of the President and his accomplices.' "Decree:— "ARTICLE I.—Louis Bonaparte is deposed from his office of President of the Republic.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

For the same reason when, in court, somebody asserts a sudden “occurrence,” or when we want to help him and something occurs to him, we shall have to proceed in different fashion and determine our action empirically by the conditions of the moment.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Then I will explain myself more clearly: seeing that you and I have agreed that there is such a thing as good, and that there is such a thing as pleasure, and that pleasure is not the same as good, and that the pursuit and process of acquisition of the one, that is pleasure, is different from the pursuit and process of acquisition of the other, which is good—I wish that you would tell me whether you agree with me thus far or not—do you agree?
— from Gorgias by Plato

The same advantage he might get out of thinking himself a duke, and living a duke's life and parading in ducal fuss and feathers, when he wasn't a duke at all, and could find it out if he would only examine the herald's records.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

453 - 457 On the Utilitarian view, the relation between Ethics and Politics is different for different parts of the legal code.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He was too cunning, however, to darken any part of the main argument so far as to prevent its drift from being fully understood, and thereby defeating his own purpose.
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

We built this house high up, as you see, first, because it is good to live high—it puts life in the blood; and, as Gordineer said, it is noble to look far over the world, every time your house-door is open, or the parchment is down from the window.
— from A Romany of the Snows, Complete Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

A little Flemish conversation manual— Vlamischer Sprachführer —is published in Düsseldorf for the use of Germans, and of soldiers in particular.
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

[Pg 204] I’ve known how to shoot for years, and when I am in practice I do fairly well.”
— from The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly

When it came to the “non-naturals,” as he would sometimes call them, after the old physicians,—namely, air, meat and drink, sleep and watching, motion and rest, the retentions and excretions, and the affections of the mind,—he was, as I have said, of the school of sensible practitioners, in distinction from that vast community of quacks, with or without the diploma, who think the chief end of man is to support apothecaries, and are never easy until they can get every patient upon a regular course of something nasty or noxious.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Yet pay it did from the start.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

Porrò quot membra præcipua in duabus faciebus majoribus, totidem distincta telaria
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

Regarding the original character of the railway as a common highway, Redfield says: "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act provides, in detail, for the use of railways by all persons who may choose to put carriages thereon, upon the payment of the tolls demandable, subject to the provisions of the statute and the regulations of the company.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

Pallas is derived from armed dances—apo tou pallein ta opla.
— from Cratylus by Plato