He soon procured occupation as a letter-writer and copyist, and used to sit at the corner of the Rue de Marivaux, and practise his calling; but he hardly made profit enough to keep body and soul together.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

[39] France is to enjoy more than the privileges of honour; she is to reap distinct material and political advantages from the union.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Au début, je le faisais à temps partiel, mais c'est rapidement devenu mon activité principale.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

L'immense majorité des Français constate avec une indifférence totale le remplacement progressif de leur langue par le mauvais anglais des marchands et des publicitaires, et le reste du monde a parfaitement admis l'hégémonie linguistique des Anglo-saxons parce qu'ils n'ont pas d'autres horizons que de servir ces riches et puissants maîtres.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They were introduced at a wicket on the little rue du Manège, and, passing up a stairway seldom used and through the Queen's apartments, at length found themselves at the door of a small and private chamber of his Majesty's suite.
— from Calvert of Strathore by Abbe Carter Goodloe

A normal home, especially in rural districts, means a piece of land and a suitable house for the family; it implies also an opportunity to earn the family living either on the same land—if it is large enough, as in the case of truck gardens or farms—or in a near-by industrial establishment; it implies acquaintances and friends in the same neighborhood, and certain minimum necessities of modern civilized life, such as roads, post office, newspaper, church, school, physician.
— from A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek

von Rosenberg, Der malayische Archipel , p. 166 (Niase).
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

[326] Le Rime di Messer A. Poliziano , pp. 295, 346.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

[1] (202) 237-0061 consulate(s) general: Houston Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Joseph E. LEBARON embassy: Al-Luqta District, 22 February Road, Doha mailing address: P. O. Box 2399, Doha telephone:
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The full-ton'd language, of the eloquent Greeks, Whose lofty music grac'd the lips of Jove, 100 Thyself did'st counsel me to add the flow'rs That Gallia7 boasts, those too with which the smooth Italian his degentrate speech adorns, That witnesses his mixture with the Goth, And Palestine's prophetic songs divine.8 To sum the whole, whate'er the Heav'n contains, The Earth beneath it, and the Air between, The Rivers and the restless deep, may all Prove intellectual gain to me, my wish Concurring with thy will; Science herself, 110 All cloud removed, inclines her beauteous head And offers me the lip, if, dull of heart, I shrink not and decline her gracious boon.
— from Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by John Milton

A sharp, miserly, litigious, vulgar, ignorant baronet, very rich, desperately mean, "a philosopher with a taste for low life," and intoxicated every night.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

82 Rosenberg, Der Malayische Archipel , p. 198.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck