P. V. ITINERVM FAMA PRAECLARI JAM HABITATIO FVIT.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[4662] Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarum, Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres In furias ignemque ruunt; amor omnibus idem.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ab actu ad posse valet illatio —From what has 5 happened we may infer what may happen.
— 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.

Più vale il fumo di casa mia, che il fuoco dell'altrui —The smoke of my own house is better than the fire of another's.
— 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.

It equally follows that when we compare studies as to their values, that is, treat them as means to something beyond themselves, that which controls their proper valuation is found in the specific situation in which they are to be used.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

[pg vii] Introduction Flavius Claudius Julianus , 1 son of Julius Constantius and nephew of the Emperor Constantine, was born at Constantinople in 331 a.d.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The game of prisoner's base, which not so long ago seemed to enjoy a perennial vitality in front of the worn-out stocks, may, so far as I can say, be entirely unknown to the rising generation of schoolboys there.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

For just as rust is the natural dissolvent of iron, wood-worms and grubs to timber, by which they are destroyed without any external injury, but by that which is engendered in themselves; so in each constitution there is naturally engendered a particular vice inseparable from it: in kingship it is absolutism; aristocracy it is oligarchy; in democracy lawless ferocity and 467 violence; and to these vicious states all these forms of government are, as I have lately shown, inevitably transformed.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Passepartout, in his joy on reaching at last the American continent, thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style; but, tumbling upon some worm-eaten planks, he fell through them.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Hæc si non procedit, venitur in Forum , 1. (olim judicabant in Foro, hodiè in Prætorio )
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

[459] Arno Holz—Johannes Schlaf, Die Familie Selicke , 3 e Auflage; Berlin, 1892, p. vi.: ‘In fact, nothing so provokes us to smile ... as when they, in their anxiety to find models, label us as plagiarists of the great foreign authors.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The mythographers are in this particular very ingenious, for they say that monstrous uncouth animals were produced in the time of the Giants war, the moon being out of its course, and not rising where it used to do.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

When the piston of suction pump c rises a partial vacuum is formed beneath it, and the volatile liquid in b being relieved of pressure, evaporates and expands
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

Each race has its peculiar vice; in fact, we may go further than that, we may say that it is a remarkable fact that the great bulk of mankind insists on taking some form of poison; in fact, it is only a minute minority which wholly abstains from this practice.
— from Changing China by Cecil, Florence Mary (Bootle-Wilbraham), Lady

(“Take the life of him who has taken your bread !”) is its fundamental principle; but in practice Palermitan vengeance is far from possessing the simplicity of the Corsican vendetta, for it is complicated by the most atrocious cruelties.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

h, breathing more freely, as she learned the safety of her son; "or does Providence veil its face in anger?"
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

She had tact enough to realise that she could not press verbal inquiry further.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

As no more air can get into the cylinder, and as the piston continues to move inwardly, it is obvious that a partial vacuum is formed.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé