How happy, then, ought we to esteem that man who alone has it in his power, not by the law of the Romans, but by the privilege of philosophers, to enjoy all things as his own; not by any civil bond, but by the common right of nature, which denies that anything can really be possessed by any one but him who understands its true nature and use; who reckons our dictatorships and consulships rather in the rank of necessary offices than desirable employments, and thinks they must be endured rather as acquittances of our debt to our country than sought for the sake of emolument or glory—the man, in short, who can apply to himself the sentence which Cato tells us my ancestor Africanus loved to repeat, “that he was never so busy as when he did nothing, and never less solitary than when alone.”
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It reads thus (I mark the gap): "There all the companyons made them[... ] breke no poynt of that ye have ordayned and commanded.,' This is palpable nonsense, but it has been repeated without correction in every reprint of Lockhart's edition for the last fifty years.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

[487] “ Nam ea annis 354 ante Romam condita nunquam amisit principatum, nec bello consumpta est. ”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

She had no place nor being there.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

While he was yet undecided, she had quitted England; the news of his marriage reached her, and her hopes, poorly nurtured blossoms, withered and fell.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Carefully deliberating on the most proper manner of approaching him on the subject, I concluded finally [Pg 232] to ask him simply if he would deposit a letter for me in the Marksville post-office the next time he visited that place, without disclosing to him that the letter was written, or any of the particulars it contained; for I had fears that he might betray me, and knew that some inducement must be held out to him of a pecuniary nature, before it would be safe to confide in him.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

At first it was cultivated in the province of La Laguna; but afterward other provinces, notably Batangas and Cavite, took it up; and in a short time the industry was one of the most important in the islands.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

This incident awakened in Koppel's heart deep compassion towards the poor neglected boys, and he applied to the municipal authorities for permission to found a Home or Ragged School for them where they might receive Christian training.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Character wants room; must not be crowded 20 on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In the case of the Jewell (Duel) Hill meteorite it was discovered by Dr. Brezina that, notwithstanding the pronounced octahedral structure, plates of troilite are embedded, not in accidental positions nor between successive octahedral layers, but parallel to the faces of the corresponding cube; whence Prof. Rinne suggests that this iron, now of octahedral structure, and possibly all others of a similar character, had a cubic structure at the epoch when they entered upon the solid condition.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites With a List of the Meteorites Represented in the Collection by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy

Mauritius, who had before conceived certain prejudices against St. Gregory, was offended at his remonstrances, and showed his resentment against him for some years, but at length agreed to the mitigations of each article proposed by St. Gregory: which the holy pope, with great pleasure, notified by a letter addressed to the bishops of the empire.[47]
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

According to this view, since nature is only the visible organism of our understanding, it can produce nothing but what is conformable to a rule and an end.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

As the first sensation of alarm and indignation provoked naturally by the treatment she had received, by the abruptness with which her life of dependence had been ended, died away, Caroline became conscious that there was an undoubted charm about her present situation.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

The condition of Washington's men was such that he desired neither to pursue nor be pursued, so he ordered the bridge broken up.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

He spoke of him like a warm and stedfast friend, but not like that worst of enemies, an indiscreet one; he did not challenge a scrutiny by the extravagance of his praise, nor break, by his precious balms, the head he was most anxious to honour.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 371, May 23, 1829 by Various

We have remained here a long time, and waited while they have gathered all their men, and their king has probably not been anywhere near here when we came.
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

I was Kaimakâm of the district of Kiakhta, in the Vilayet of Kharpout, I was acquainted with an Armenian Notable of that place, named Barsoum Agha.
— from Martyred Armenia by Fa'iz Ghusayn

At the end of the year 1831, while I was on the left bank of the Mississippi, at a place named by Europeans Memphis, there arrived a numerous band of Choctaws (or Chactas, as they are called by the French in Louisiana).
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Naval Architect will find brought together and ready to his hand, a mass of information which he would otherwise have to seek in an almost endless variety of publications, and some of which he would possibly not be able to obtain at all elsewhere.”— Steamship .
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson