Cicero tells us that the laws recognise eight kinds of penalty,—damages, imprisonment, scourging, reparation, [874] disgrace, exile, death, slavery.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
At a subsequent period he in a rage either kicked or threw his wife down stairs when she was pregnant, and so killed her, being wrought
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
No, if nature has given the child this plasticity of brain which fits him to receive every kind of impression, it was not that you should imprint on it the names and dates of kings, the jargon of heraldry, the globe and geography, all those words without present meaning or future use for the child, which flood of words overwhelms his sad and barren childhood.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
See Müller's own review of the Russians' early knowledge of the peninsula in Vol.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen
In three months she read every kind of music, by means of my notation, and sung at sight better than I did myself, any piece that was not too difficult.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In my book the dogs sit down With wolves in conversation; And beasts dressed up in vest and gown, All sorts, of every nation, Reflect each kind of folly duly,
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine
In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The prince having returned home, some monks entreated permission to try the effects of these relics on a demoniac, who had hitherto resisted every kind of exorcism.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
361 This word may be read either Kuriltāy or Kurultāy .
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir
But the faithless Pathan repudiated every kind of agreement, and proceeded to defend the palace and apply all that it contained to his own use.
— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
The soldiers who were in the Belvedere fortress, as soon as they heard the reports of the guns and the cause thereof, came down from there like wild beasts, such was their hatred against these people, from whom they had received every kind of insult, even to finding two of their companions nailed to the boards of their barracks one day—acts that were a dishonour to the good reputation of the open-hearted Livornese, with their free mode of speech and quick intelligence.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè
So-called good society recognizes every kind of claim but that of intellect, which is a contraband article; and people are expected to exhibit an unlimited amount of patience towards every form of folly and stupidity, perversity and dullness; whilst personal merit has to beg pardon, as it were, for being present, or else conceal itself altogether.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ceadwalla inuadeth Kent, of a barbarous warriour he becommeth a religious christian, his vertues, his death and buriall at Rome; Egfrid king of Northumberland inuadeth Ireland, he is slaine by Brudeus king of the Picts; the neglect of good counsell is dangerous; Etheldreda a wife and a widow (hauing vowed chastitie) liued a virgine 12 yeeres with hir husband Egfride, she was called saint Auderie of Elie.
— from Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England. by Raphael Holinshed
For a most varied climb, requiring every kind of mountain craft, the traverse of the Aiguille du Plan is to be recommended, from the Glacier des Pèlerins over the summit, down the Glacier du Plan, and back by the Glacier du Géant.
— from Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges by Norman Collie
But as the Duke of 'Britaine' does not appear elsewhere in the play, and as the stage direction of the Quartos runs: Enter King of France, Bourbon, Dolphin, and others , we have followed Theobald in introducing Bourbon among the persons who enter and in assigning the two speeches to him.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare
The heathen religion, on the other hand, refers every kind of effect to a special cause, which can of course be characterised by its effect.
— from Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. by Solomon Maimon
The impotence resisted every kind of treatment, until, one day, the girl wrote the patient that she was now willing to yield to his desires.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey
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