Qualis est animi tinea, quae tabes pectoris zelare in altero vel aliorum felicitatem suam facere miseriam, et velut quosdam pectori suo admovere carnifices, cogitationibus et sensibus suis adhibere tortores, qui se intestinis cruciatibus lacerent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If the thing, however, may be attributed to coincidence with a little more difficulty, then it becomes easier to suppose a causal connection; e.g., as when it rains on All-souls day, or at the new moon.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Very notable also is the Tribunal Extraordinaire: ( Moniteur, No. 70, ( du 11 Mars ), No. 76, &c. ) decreed by the Mountain; some Girondins dissenting, for surely such a Court contradicts every formula;—other Girondins assenting, nay co-operating, for do not we all hate Traitors, O ye people of Paris?—Tribunal of the Seventeenth in Autumn last was swift; but this shall be swifter.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Y, sin embargo, esta primavera sería aterradora comparada con el más rudo invierno de Escocia.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

How should I suppose that such a child can ever be happy?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Often, however, adverbs are used, without the repetition, such as certē , certō , etiam , factum , ita , ita enimvērō , ita vērō , sānē , sānē quidem , scīlicet ,
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This air, however, notwithstanding its humidity, is so healthy, that the natives are scarce ever visited by any other disease than the smallpox, and certain cutaneous evils, which are the effects of dirty living, the great and general reproach of the commonalty of this kingdom.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But when God himself has given us a just cause, as formerly he did to Socrates, and lately to Cato, and often to many others—in such a case, certainly every man of sense would gladly exchange this darkness for that light: not that he would forcibly break from the chains that held him, for that would be against the law; but, like a man released from prison by a magistrate or some lawful authority, so he too would walk away, being released and discharged by God.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The parrots and the monkeys were becoming still and quiet in the branches--that is to say, as still and quiet as these screeching and chattering creatures ever do become in their native state--in dark and shade places where now the evening glow scarce penetrated, the fireflies gleamed little sparks and specks of molten gold; while, above all, there rose now from the earth that true tropical sign of coming night, the incense exuded by countless flowers and shrubs, as well as the cool damp of the earth when refreshed by the absence of the burning sun.
— from A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure by John Bloundelle-Burton

"Science and Culture"; "Collected Essays" 3.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

but if it be meant that in the Christian religion there is a special denunciation against slavery, that slavery and Christianity cannot exist together,—I think that the honourable gentleman himself must admit that the proposition is historically false."]
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

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— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 2 of 3) by William Black

"On the other hand, if we regard the world as a series of successive lives for each creature, we see very well how it comes about that God, to whom there is neither time nor space, and who perceives the final goal of all things, permits evil and suffering as being necessary phases through which creatures must pass, in order to reach a state of happiness which the creature does not see, and, consequently, cannot enjoy in so far as it is a creature, but which God sees, and which, therefore, the creature virtually enjoys in him, for the time
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

Gilbert's discussion of gout closes with a short and characteristic chapter entitled " Emperica ," in which he remarks: "Although I perhaps demean myself somewhat in making any reference to empirical remedies, yet it is well to write them in a new book, that the work may not be lacking in what the ancients ( antiqui ) have said on the subject.
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson

Antony's soldiers pushed them back with boathooks, cut them down with axes, threw down upon them rocks and other masses of material made ready for just this purpose, repulsed those that tried to climb up, and joined issue with such as came close enough.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Such a cool, clipped, everyday voice Aunt Martha spoke in!
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix

The Paterson and [Pg 102] Hudson River Railroad advertised its "three splendid and commodious cars, each capable of accommodating thirty passengers, and drawn by fleet and gentle horses.
— from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton