At Dun Aengus, however, the mystic assemblies and rites, conducted in such a sun-temple, so secure and so strongly fortified against intrusion, no doubt represented a somewhat different mystical school, and probably one very much older than at New Grange.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Pitch of voice matters very much and so does pronunciation—enunciation is not so essential—except to one who speaks in public.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

At the head of a formidable army, Alaric conducted his royal captive almost to the gates of Ravenna; and a solemn embassy of the principal ministers, of Jovius, the Prætorian præfect, of Valens, master of the cavalry and infantry, of the quæstor Potamius, and of Julian, the first of the notaries, was introduced, with martial pomp, into the Gothic camp.
— 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

from v. melja, to pound, or v. mala, to grind; E. mill, and prob.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

If in the sacred name of right I do this wrong in duty's spite; The path of virtue meanly quit, And this polluting sin commit, What man who marks the bounds between Virtue and vice with insight keen, Would rank me high in after time Stained with this soul destroying crime?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then spake young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom, of law of canons, of Lilith, patron of abortions, of bigness wrought by wind of seeds of brightness or by potency of vampires mouth to mouth or, as Virgilius saith, by the influence of the occident or by the reek of moonflower or an she lie with a woman which her man has but lain with, effectu secuto , or peradventure in her bath according to the opinions of Averroes and Moses Maimonides.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

For this reason custom has established it as a rule, in common societies, that men should not indulge themselves in self-praise, or even speak much of themselves; and it is only among intimate friends or people of very manly behaviour, that one is allowed to do himself justice.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

That the attitude of hostility, considered likewise from this point of view, may arise independently in the soul is the less to be doubted since it represents here, as in many another easily observable situation, the [Pg 587] embodiment of an impulse which is in the first place quite general, but which also occurs in quite peculiar forms, namely, the impulse to act in relationships with others .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In the same way the identification of ethics with politics has a tendency to give definiteness to ethics, and also to elevate and ennoble men's notions of the aims of government and of the duties of citizens; for ethics from one point of view may be conceived as an idealized law and politics; and politics, as ethics reduced to the conditions of human society.
— from The Republic by Plato

The committee on revision of the N. F. immediately offered us a number of preparations of varying merit, that were not even good substitutes for the above, and these I have understood at the suggestion of some physicians.
— from The Dixie Druggist, May, 1913 A Monthly Publication Issued to the Retail Drug Trade of the South by Anonymous

Was it because this undisciplined child, with that curious sporting instinct which supplied the place of Victorian morality, represented for her, as well as for Stephen, some inarticulate longing for the unknown, for the adventurous?
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Power over very many of the commonest temptations is only to be won by degrees, and however anxious one might be to apply the summary method to every case, he soon finds it impossible in practice.
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

an differat aetas? an noceat vis ulla bono, fortunaque perdat opposita virtute minas, laudandaque velle sit satis, et numquam successu crescat honestum? scimus, et hoc nobis non altius inseret Hammon.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

In a few seconds Miss Martha entered the room with her cap and collar, though faultlessly clean and stiff, put on very much awry.
— from The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He referred to the fact occasionally with amused impatience, but seems never to have really resented or rebelled against the filial duties which to the Western point of view might appear excessive.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

Miss Landon, alluding to “the fascinations of Hans Place,” playfully observes, “vivid must be the imagination that could discover them— ‘Never hermit in his cell, Where repose and silence dwell, Human shape and human word Never seen and never heard,’ page 31 p. 31 had a life of duller calm than the indwellers of our square.”
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

The royal crown need only be golden—the royal robe need only be trimmed with ermine—on the side toward the spectators; indeed, the proudest of sovereigns, from the audience point of view, may, as seen from the rear, be the humblest of citizens.
— from How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games by George H. (George Henry) Sandison

The Ethiopians are a people of very mixed origin.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

"I hope, Miss Fenwick, that my brief and rather speculative answers to your questions, reasoning as I did, from Mr. Donnelly's point of view, may prove at least in a measure satisfactory."
— from Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson