Her repentance was tardy and fruitless: after the death of the old members, the sacred college was filled with French cardinals, 84 who beheld Rome and Italy with abhorrence and contempt, and perpetuated a series of national, and even provincial, popes, attached by the most indissoluble ties to their native country.
— 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

The Preliminary Articles of a treaty for perpetual peace are based on the principle that anything that hinders or threatens the peaceful co-existence of nations must be abolished.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Men have observed, that though natural abilities and moral qualities be in the main on the same footing, there is, however, this difference betwixt them, that the former are almost invariable by any art or industry; while the latter, or at least, the actions, that proceed from them, may be changed by the motives of rewards and punishments, praise and blame.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

poor Pulcheria Alexandrovna blurted out, incautiously.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And Farmer Chiquet, beside himself with rage, cuffed and kicked the marauder with all the fury of a plundered peasant as “Bell” lay defenceless before him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

ar' oun oute tôn allôn anegnô ti tôn tou Hippokratous grammatôn ho Erasistratos ouden oute to peri physeôs anthrôpou biblion, hin' houtôs argôs parelthoi tên peri tôn chymôn episkepsin, ê gignôskei men, hekôn de paraleipei kallistên tês technês theôrian?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

4. 386: ‘She hath been before me, punk, pinnace and bawd, any time these two and twenty years.’
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

In order they are: The Birth of European Art, the Orange Panel, Inspiration in All Art, the Wheat Panel, the Birth of Oriental Art, Metallic Gold, Ideals in Art, the Poppy Panel; all by Robert Reid (103, 104).
— from The Jewel City by Ben Macomber

In speaking of them, he calls upon the Pennsylvania Council of Safety to take into serious consideration the case of the Quakers, whose published protest against breaking off the "happy connection" seemed to Paine of a treasonable nature.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

—A native of Guiana; this pretty parrot also breeds in Carolina, and sometimes even penetrates into Virginia in large flocks during the fruit season, making great ravages among the nuts, of which it only eats almonds, rejecting all others.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

[44] I presume that the reference is to the Conciones ad Populum , published at Bristol, November 16, 1795.
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

While Belisarius reconquered Italy and made the name of the Cæsar again honoured at Rome and Ravenna, ended the cruel rule of the Vandals in Africa and Sicily, crushed the Goths of Spain, and kept the strong Persian prince at bay on the eastern frontier of the empire, Christian missions spread the faith of the orthodox Church to the Caucasus and the Sudan.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

Reviews and magazines are placed under an equally rigorous surveillance , and Count Tolstoi’s Index Purgatorius puts a ban on the printing or sale of every book calculated to stimulate thought or arouse ambition.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Menopause, 314 Menstruation, 306 Mind (see Consciousness and Subconscious) Misconceptions, about the body, 21 , 22 about theory of sex, 184 Mixtures, fear of, 257 Monogamy, 63 Moral hygiene, 206 Mosher, Clelia Duel, 308 Muscle-tone, 137 , 244 Myth, 146 N Narcissus, 55 , 152 , 340 Nausea, 101 , 177 , 275 of pregnancy, 319 Nerves, attitude toward, 3 causes of, 28 , 148 drama of, 10 , 29 medical schools and, 16 not physical, 14 prevention of, 385 Neurasthenia, 111 , 246 Neuritis, 14 , 244 Neurosis, a compromise, 167 a confidence game, 179 a failure of sublimation, 381 a flight from reality, 170 an ethical struggle, 177 an introversion, 381 and shell-shock, 147 and suggestion, 129 anxiety, 7 , 109 awkwardness of, 213 compulsion, 109 caused by buried complexes, 108 , 190 definition 112 origin in childhood, 149 , 157 , 217 purpose of, 167 root-complex of, 153 O Obsession, 7 , 204 Oedipus Complex, 154 Organic trouble, 11 , 12 , 251 Ouija Board, 97 Over-awareness, 352 Over-compensation, 67 Over-determined, 148 Page 399 P Pain, at base of the brain, 351 chronic hysterical, 341 menstrual, 306 Personality, alterations of, 7 , 15 , 20 and emotions, 362 , 369 and will, 372 choice by, 216 complexes and, 107 disrupted, 382 multiple, 111 , 131 nervousness a disorder of, 15 reverence for, 383 unified, 375 Persuasion, 206 Pfister, Oskar, 153 , 166 , 382 Phantasy, 153 , 163 Phobia, 7 , 368 Plagiarism, 98 Popular Misconceptions, 21 Prince, Morton, 79 , 84 , 89 , 95 , 97 , 112 , 132 , 188 , 347 Psycho-analysis, 189 ff.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

Jack and Mrs. London are playing pedro, and Bert is putting out the sidelights.
— from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson