Multa rogant utenda dari; data reddere nolunt —They ask many a sum on loan, but they are loath to repay.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
With this Panurge grew a little angry, and went about to withdraw and rid himself from this ruggedly untoward dumb devil.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
ANT: Disturb, remove, unsettle, disarrange, disestablish, misplace, misattribute, misassign, uproot, transplant, extirpate, eradicate, transport.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
"Denn man muss nicht die Buchstaben in der Lateinischen Sprache fragen wie man soll Deutsch reden: sondern man muss die Mutter in Hause, die Kinder auf den Gassen, den gemeinen Mann auf dem Markte, darum fragen: und denselbigen auf das Maul sehen wie sie reden, und darnach dolmetschen.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
omnis institutio adolescentum eo referenda ut de deo bene sentiant ob commune bonum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
If you interview the great army of failures, you will find that multitudes have failed because they never got into a stimulating, encouraging environment, because their ambition was never aroused, or because they were not strong enough to rally under depressing, discouraging, or vicious surroundings.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
Quand un homme tousse, crache du sang, respire avec peine, ressent une douleur de côté, a le pouls plus vite et plus dur, la peau plus chaude que dans l’état naturel — l’on dit qu’il est attaqué d’une pleurésie.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote
The moon in "Autumn:"— "Her spotted disk, Where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend, ... gives all his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau
Julian war der edelste aller damaligen Medici, ein Mensch von innerlicher Richtung, unbefriedigt durch das Leben, mitten im Sonnenglanz der Herrlichkeit Leo's X. eine dunkle Gestalt die wie ein Schatten vor*uberzog.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo
[147:1] Ab his animi motibus purioribus, et tranquillo stabilique suae beatitudinis appetitione, quae ratione utitur duce, diversi plane sunt motus quidam vehementiores et perturbati, quibus, secundum naturae suae legem, saepe agitatur mens, ubi certa species ipsi obversatur, atque bruto quodam impetu, fertur ad quaedam agenda, prosequenda, aut fugienda, quamvis nondum, adhibita in consilium ratione, secum statuerat haec ad vitam facere vel beatam vel miseram.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton
And then the strange noises from the river, unnoticed during daylight, were not conducive to mental ease, 247 when we nervously associated them with roving fishermen, or perhaps tramps, attracted by our light from the opposite shore.
— from Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The relatively unimportant details, differing slightly in each species, are mere adjuncts; and since natural selection deals with each species or inter-generating group separately, the essential behaviour may in each case carry with it the associated differences of manner.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
Other editors of the complete works of Shakespeare of the nineteenth century whose labours, although of some value, present fewer distinctive characteristics are:—William Harness (1825, 8 vols.); Samuel Weller Singer (1826, 10 vols., printed at the Chiswick Press for William Pickering, illustrated by Stothard and others; reissued in 1856 with essays by William Watkiss Lloyd); Charles Knight, with discursive notes and pictorial illustrations by F. W. Fairholt and others (‘Pictorial edition,’ 8 vols., including biography and the doubtful plays, 1838-43, often reissued under different designations); Bryan Waller Procter, i.e. Barry Cornwall (1839-43, 3 vols.); John Payne Collier (1841-4, 8 vols.
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
See also R. Wulker, ``Uber die Sprache der Ancren Riwle und die der Homilie: Halli Meidenhad,'' in Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Halle, 1874, i. 209), giving an analysis of the differences in dialect between the two works; and Edgar Elliott Bramlette, ``The Original Language of the Ancren Riwle,'' in Anglia, xv.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
" Then Will related what befell him the night before-how Dent walked home with him, and begged to buy his place in the ship; how Will was firm in his refusal until Dent declared his intention of going in for Bet, and making her his wife at any cost.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade
I lamented this fact to a solitary gentleman who was strolling about here and who replied, upon due deliberation: "One cannot have everything."
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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