His pleasures were inexhaustible: neither private virtue nor public service could expiate the guilt of active, or even passive, obedience to an established government; and, during the six years of his new reign, he considered the axe, the cord, and the rack, as the only instruments of royalty.
— 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

Were it an enemy that could be avoided, I would then advise to borrow arms even of cowardice itself; but seeing it is not, and that it will catch you as well flying and playing the poltroon, as standing to’t like an honest man:— “Nempe et fugacem persequitur virum, Nec parcit imbellis juventae Poplitibus timidoque tergo.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Nese , sb. nose, S, S2, Prompt., PP, Voc.; neose , PP; nose , Voc.; noose , W A. Comb. : nosebleed , the plant yarrow, Alph.; noseblede , millifolium , Alph.; nese-hende , purulus , Voc.; nese-thirl , nostril, H; nes-thyrylle , Voc.; nose-thirl , W2; nose-thurl , C; noyss-thyrlys , pl. , S3.—AS. nosu ; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

` Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Mors et fugacem persequitur virum Nec parcit imbellis juventae Poplitibus, timidoque tergo. '”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

This, he observed, was a presumption very near positive proof, and would determine any jury in Christendom to find me guilty.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Mihi utrumvis satis est et tum hoc, tum illud probabilius videtur nec praeterea quicquam probabile.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

335 Queſti populi vano nudi portano ſolamente vno pezo de tella de palma otorno Le ſue vergonie grandi et picoli hanno paſſato iL ſuo membro circa dela teſta de luna parte alalt a con vno fero de oro houero de ſtanio groſſo como vna penna de ocha et in vno capo et lalt o deL medeſimo fero alguni anno Como vna ſtella con ponte ſoura li capi
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Note 28 ( return ) [ Nicopolis...... in Actiaco littore sita possessioris vestra nunc pars vel maxima est.
— 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 place contains the ballei and about twenty houses, built in general of plank very neatly put together, and carved; and some of them were also roofed with planks or shingles about two feet long and one broad.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

"I hear Miss Russell is going to give quite a party," volunteered Nora Proctor.
— from The Manor House School by Angela Brazil

We suppose we may repeat what history has made notorious respecting them, that they were, both in belief and civil practice, very narrow [Pg 452] and limited in their outlooks—by no means given to intellectual speculations—and with but little faith in the intellect itself—which, indeed, was proscribed as a sort of outlaw when it stood upon its own authority, outside the pale of their church.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

In spite of this, he impudently paid a visit to his friend, the grand-duke at Florence, who immediately {171} gave him up to Pius V, now pope, saying he would surrender his own child to the holy father under similar circumstances, and he went so far as to allow his guest to be arrested at his dinner table.
— from Italian Prisons St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition by Arthur Griffiths

For instance, he had written a play, very nearly proposed to the third daughter of a London clergyman and twice been to the Derby.
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens

RG 471, 473 Plead , v. n. Pol. S. 159 Pleading , sb.
— from A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300 by Herbert Coleridge

In these affairs I have neither private views, nor private dislike of any individual, but the sincere wish of deserving the name of the friend of your country, and of her patriots.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

But neither is liberality a principal virtue, nor prodigality a capital vice.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint