Vindice servabat nullo sua publica vulgus; Iamque in privato pascere inertis erat.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

If we contemplate the period in which the conquest of New Spain took place, we can easily imagine that Cortes considered [Pg vi] it imperative on him to plant his religion among the Indians by the power of the sword, if he could not by kind remonstrances; and we are often reminded of Joshua in the Old Testament.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Politeness is a poor virtue, if it is actuated only by a fear of offending good taste, whereas it should be the outward manifestation of a sympathetic regard for the feelings of others.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Predominant vanity is, I am afraid, too much concerned here.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

,” began Prince Vasíli impatiently, “I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

PLATE V. IMG Is a copy of a mediæval Virgin and Child, as painted in Della Robbia ware in the South Kensington Museum, a copy of which, was given to me by my friend, Mr. Newton, to whose kindness I am indebted for many illustrations of ancient Christian art.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

As this work is to have only psychological value it is indifferent whether the victim is veracious or not.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

This patina versatilis is in fact the modern crême renversée , with nuts.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

If thou speakest improper things in the hearing of this virtuous young Virgin, consider it is an Outrage against a distressed Person that cannot get from thee: To speak indiscreetly what we are obliged to hear, by being hasped up with thee in this publick Vehicle, is in some Degree assaulting on the high Road.'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

That thereupon the divine justice is grounded, punishing in the children the faults of their fathers; forasmuch as the contagion of paternal vices is in some sort imprinted in the soul of children, and that the ill government of their will extends to them; moreover, that if souls had any other derivation than a natural consequence, and that they had been some other thins out of the body, they would retain some memory of their first being, the natural faculties that are proper to them of discoursing, reasoning, and remembering, being considered:— Si in corpus nascentibus insinuatur, Cur super anteactam tatem meminisse nequimus, Nec vestigia gestarum rerum ulla tenemus?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I trust, then, it has now been rendered sufficiently clear that, no matter how infertile the hybrid progeny may become, and no matter at how great a disadvantage they may thus (or otherwise) be placed in their struggle for existence with the parent varieties, it is not apparent that their infertility (or their extinction) can ever become the cause of a further increase of infertility arising between their parent forms.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

It was not enough that an Israelite should have the prescribed victim; it is not enough that we present the Christ of God in faith, or what we think to be faith.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

If vital softness of figure is combined, with a gentle lateral rolling of the body in its gait, voluptuous character and expression of countenance are indicated.—If delicacy of outline in the figure, be combined with perpendicular rising of the head, levity, perhaps vanity, is indicated.—But there are innumerable combinations and modifications of the elements which we have just described.
— from Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

Besides his house and his situation in the bank, Mr. Day considered another of his possessions very important indeed, although he did not list it when he made out his tax return.
— from Janice Day, the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long

One Ode, which infinitely pleased me in the reading, I have attempted to translate in Pindaric verse: it is that, which is inscribed to the present Earl of Rochester, to whom I have particular obligations, which this small testimony of my gratitude can never pay.
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden

I had been acting without his advice, and contrary to his well known opinions, which was perhaps very imprudent in me.
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic

But in the Passamaquoddy versions it is the dreaded and mysterious Lox, who appears to be a species of Lynx or Wolverine.
— from Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

He had had time to scrutinize his interlocutor, and saw that he was dealing with some butler with a paunch as round as his bottles, some prosperous Vatel imprisoned in an official doublet, which, from lack of time, or superabundance of belly, was not properly secured.
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

Of the poems which follow in the present volume, Inebriety is here printed from a copy of the quarto of 1775, which lacks a title-page and which bears on p. 1 the following deprecation in Crabbe's handwriting: 'NB.—pray let not this be seen at [cipher] there is very little of it that I'm not heartily asham'd of.'
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

NEW YORK, 1906 3/ Frontispiece Thomas Ken CONTENTS Preface , v Introduction , ix 1.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth