It was from him that I learned how to receive from friends what are thought favours without seeming humbled by the giver or insensible to the gift. 9.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

For all the male kind far excels in skill, And cleverer is by much—until at last The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks, And so were eager soon to give them o'er To women's hands, and in more hardy toil To harden arms and hands.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Note 6 ( return ) [ The Epistles of Innocent III. are a rich fund for the ecclesiastical and civil institution of the Latin empire of Constantinople; and the most important of these epistles (of which the collection in 2 vols.
— 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

What was the receipt for?” “For a valuable gem which he had placed in the safe keeping of the bank.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

For the first time at this period, Rome appears to have become more learned by the study of foreign literature; for it was no longer a little rivulet, flowing from Greece towards the walls of our city, but an overflowing river of Grecian sciences and arts.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Immediately many things were tossed overboard; the ships were made ready for fighting as soon as possible; and about ten at night we had bent a new main sail, the old one being split.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Here Callimachus hit upon a pretty contrivance—he ran forward from the tree under which he was posted two or three paces, and as soon as the stones came whizzing, he retired easily, but at each excursion more than ten wagon-loads of rocks were expended.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The poor wretch was sent to an asylum, and did not recover her reason for five years.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“A book to be read and re-read; fit for the study as well as the drawing-room table and the circulating library.”— Lancet.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

He delighted, in fancy, to sweep away the embattled host with his discharges of grape-shot; to see the routed foe, flying over the plain, and to witness the dying and the dead covering the ground.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

The California Indians however were remarkably free from even traces of this tendency, equally in their religion and in the more practical aspects of their life.
— from The Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. (Alfred Louis) Kroeber

"The railroad company will certainly insist that Slump's bond be raised from five hundred dollars," spoke Adair.
— from Ralph in the Switch Tower; Or, Clearing the Track by Allen Chapman

Above the Narrows, without pausing, a black object that turned to white in the searchlight rays fell from the misshapen globe below the center of the black flyer's body.
— from A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Murray Leinster

He forgot the risk of accident, the danger of the return through the city, but he saw Desmond's rugged face framed in the doorway of the cottage above the Hudson and felt the anguish of the abandonment to worse than death.
— from The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

It raced forward faster than they were travelling, rose above the gunwale on either hand, and then surged on into the darkness and was lost again.
— from In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait by Harold Bindloss

Jatupon knocked, stood, and waited repeatedly for five or ten minutes without success.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills