Of course I did not carry out this threat, but I completed his confusion by quoting in Hebrew the passages in the Old Testament, where the Jews are bidden to do all possible harm to the Gentiles, whom they were to curse every day.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Proteus changes his form when his good pleasure dictates, I, who am skilled in these arts, can the shrubs of Mount Ida Plant in the ocean; turn rivers to flow up the mountains!”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It was likewise ordained, that the day on which he succeeded to the empire should be called Palilia, in token of the city’s being at that time, as it were, new founded.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Another parallel is that of the Popular Assembly, which at Athens was omnipotent, but in the Laws has only a faded and secondary existence.
— from Laws by Plato

The spindle of the press was called receipt; the trough, cost and damages; the hole for the vice-pin, state; the side-boards, money paid into the office; the great beam, respite of homage; the branches, radietur; the side-beams, recuperetur; the fats, ignoramus; the two-handled basket, the rolls; the treading-place, acquittance; the dossers, validation; the panniers, authentic decrees; the pailes, potentials; the funnels, quietus est.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

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— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I make no doubt but that there were many antient hymns preserved in those oracular temples, which were for a long time retained, and sung, when their meaning was very imperfectly known.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Now if there did not exist within you a faculty of intuition a priori; if this subjective condition were not in respect to its form also the universal condition a priori under which alone the object of this external intuition is itself possible; if the object (that is, the triangle) were something in itself, without relation to you the subject; how could you affirm that that which lies necessarily in your subjective conditions in order to construct a triangle, must also necessarily belong to the triangle in itself?
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

A citizen, or a burgher, is one who has a right to certain privileges in this or that place, All this sort depending upon men’s wills, or agreement in society, I call INSTITUTED, or VOLUNTARY; and may be distinguished from the natural, in that they are most, if not all of them, some way or other alterable, and separable from the persons to whom they have sometimes belonged, though neither of the substances, so related, be destroyed.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Of the few legitimate sons of Adam whose breasts never felt what the sting of love was,—(maintaining first, all mysogynists to be bastards,)—the greatest heroes of ancient and modern story have carried off amongst them nine parts in ten of the honour; and I wish for their sakes I had the key of my study, out of my draw-well, only for five minutes, to tell you their names—recollect them I cannot—so be content to accept of these, for the present, in their stead.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The next turn was made by de Lotbinière, who entered in his journal his intention of now speaking to the following persons, in their order— The Minister, Répentigny, The Chevalier de Villerai, Vaudreuil, The Genealogist of France, The Prince de Poix, The Maréchale de Noailles, The Baroness de la Roche Vernay.
— from The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

The state of mind that will have, nay, must have, progress is that of the stranger, untrammeled by the past and gazing toward the future.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

From this central position of democracy result the other notes of democracy, liberty, equality, fraternity—words which are not mere words to catch a mob, but symbols of the highest ethical idea which humanity has yet reached—the idea that personality is the one thing of permanent and abiding worth, and that in every human individual there lies personality....
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

Description of an Etruscan painting in tomb of Tarquin.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

I may be permitted also, after having written the detailed history of thirty campaigns and assisted in person in twelve of the most celebrated of them, to declare that I have not found a single case where these principles, correctly applied, did not lead to success.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

What variety of stratagems were used to escape, and get out of houses thus shut up, by which the watchmen were deceived or overpowered, and that 236 the people got away, I have taken notice of already, and shall say no more to that; but I say the 158 magistrates did moderate and ease families upon many occasions in this case, and particularly in that of taking away or suffering to be removed the sick persons out of such houses, when they were willing to be removed, either to a pesthouse or other places, and sometimes giving the well persons in the family so shut up leave to remove, upon information given that they were well, and that they would confine themselves in such houses where they went, so long as should be required of them.
— from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe

Although Job is the most famous instance of patience in the Old Testament, yet he is nowhere else cited as such in the New Testament.
— from Studies in the Epistle of James by A. T. Robertson

The power of the wind is but partial, intermittent; that of the moon and the glacier general, everlasting.
— from Tempest-Driven: A Romance (Vol. 2 of 3) by Richard Dowling

We also will and command our before-mentioned vassals and servants to take notice, that when we order them to assemble, either altogether or in part, in times of turbulence or to receive their fiefs, or when on other occasions they visit our court, they shall not travel or appear in coaches, but on their riding-horses, &c.” 167 Philip II., duke of Pomerania-Stettin, reminded his vassals also, in 1608, that they ought not to make so much use of carriages as of horses 168 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann