Envy and malice are passions very remarkable in animals.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

When the peacock vein rises, I strut a Gentleman Commoner.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The air waves that produce voice result in a different kind of tone when striking against relaxed muscles than when striking constricted muscles.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Deus ille fuit, deus, inclyte Memmi, Qui princeps vit rationem invenit earn, qu Nunc appellatur sapientia; quique per artem Fluctibus tantis vitam, tantisque tenebris, In tam tranquilla et tam clara luce locavit: “That god, great Memmus, was a god no doubt
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows, From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose; In each how guilt and greatness equal ran, And all that raised the hero, sunk the man: Now Europe’s laurels on their brows behold, But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold; Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease, Or infamous for plundered provinces.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

There was the House of a Puissant Potentate scituated about Ten or Fifteen Miles from Panama , whose name was Paris , very Rich in Gold; and the Spaniards gave him a visit, who were entertained with Fraternal Kindness, and Courteously received, and of his own accord, presented the Captain with a Gift of Fifteen Thousand Crowns; who was of opinion, as well as the rest of the Spaniards , that he who bestow'd such a quantity of Money gratis , was the Master of vast Treasure; whereupon they counterfeit a pretended Departure, but returning about the Fourth Night-Watch, and entring the City privily upon a surprize, which they thought was sufficiently secur'd, consecrated it with many Citizens to the Flames, and robb'd them of Fifty or Sixty Thousand Crowns.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

I know no physical virtue residing in the roots.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the Duke de Soissons go from his audience with a very great deal of state: his own coach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, and attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This proud vaunt receives its best illustration from a recent occurrence at Laodicea, to which allusion has already been made.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In 1709 Philip V reduced it to once dineros or .91667, and in some mintages even lower.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

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— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

He mounts above the rocky peaks; the pallid vapors rise in blood and melt in gold, and as they roll and lift into the sky, more and more distinctly grow upon the view the threatening swarms of men still gathering below.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

290 Mark by what wretched steps their glory grows, From dirt and sea-weed as proud Venice rose; In each how guilt and greatness equal ran, And all that raised the hero, sunk the man: Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold, But stain'd with blood, or ill exchanged for gold: Then see them broke with toils, or sunk in ease, Or infamous for plunder'd provinces.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

Further still (after the Porta Veteris Rectoris) is the Yali Kiosk Kapoussi, at the point where the walls which now separate the Seraglio from the rest of the city join the ancient fortifications.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

[Pg 48] during which the piping, voluble, rapid, intricate, and delicious warble of the ruby-crowned kinglet is the most noticeable strain to be heard, especially among the evergreens.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

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— from Harper's Young People, June 6, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Nor is it probable that they were a people very remote in kindred and language from the ancient Sinondowans, or Senecas, who, it may be supposed, by crushing them, destroyed and exterminated their name only, while they strengthened their numbers by this inter-adoption.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft