The wicked Danaïds carry water in urns, and cannot fill their pierced vessels; just so, whatever you bestow on luxury, will flow out beneath.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Note 293 ( return ) 293/1 Price v. Jenkins, 5 Ch. D. 619.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is a most vehement party pamphlet: Valla justifies and animates the revolt of the Romans, and would even approve the use of a dagger against their sacerdotal tyrant.
— 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 five planets, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn, are also the abodes of stellar divinities, called the White, Green, Black, Red, and Yellow Rulers respectively.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

per Von Jacobum Koinshoven Folio Argent.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And though Socrates himself was there to comfort him, ubi pristina virtutum jactatio
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sauer dit que Pavlovtsky vint jusqu'au détroit de Bering; ce qui, au reste, n'est pas en lui même vraisenable ."
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Iratus coelo quod obstreperet, ad pugnam vocans Jovem, quanta dementia?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Early in August the President visited Jefferson at his house in the country, and urged that he would allow him to defer the acceptance of his resignation until the 1st of January.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

O Pleasure, child of Pain, Vain joy which is the fruit Of bygone suffering overshadowèd
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

Day of Thanksgiving — "Battle for the Standard" — Return of the troops — Frozen game brought over by Esquimaux — The Regent's practical (p. vi) joke — Rejection of the Prince of Orange by the Princess Charlotte, and acceptance of Prince Leopold as her husband — Her marriage — "The R——l Whiskers" — The Regent's yacht 67 CHAPTER V. Riots and agrarian outrages — Colliers, &c., coming to London — "England in 1816" — Riots in Newgate — Marriage of the Duke of Gloucester — A chimney sweep's wedding — Cruelty to a "climbing boy" — The Mortar at St. James's Park — Lighting by means of Gas — The Coinage 89 CHAPTER VI.
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

Thus for instance, when Palladius visited John of Lycopolis, an abbot of the Nitrian desert, he found his knowledge of Greek so slight that he could only converse through an interpreter (Hist.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Years before, when Shon M’Gann and Pierre and Lawless had sojourned in the Pipi Valley, Jo Gordineer had been with them, as stupid and true a man as ever drew in his buckle in a hungry land, or let it out to munch corn and oil.
— from A Romany of the Snows, Complete Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

No; these were men born under the favorable influences of the planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars.”
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

Among the shipments were: “Port Victor,” July 10, to Santiago, 800 tons general provisions and medical supplies.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

The King was dressed in a purple velvet jacket, white muslin trousers, and a saffron-yellow turban of price.
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, January 81, 1865.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman