Those seven wise men of Greece, those Britain Druids, Indian Brachmanni, Ethiopian Gymnosophist, Magi of the Persians, Apollonius, of whom Philostratus, Non doctus, sed natus sapiens , wise from his cradle, Eoicuras so much admired by his scholar Lucretius: Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit, et omnes Perstrinxit stellas exortus ut aetherius sol.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

His, qui se unies sapiervtem profiteri sit ausus; “who alone durst profess himself a wise man.” Qui genus humanum ingenio superavit, et omnes Prstinxit stellas, exortus uti thereus Sol.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

—When you come to a word which you cannot translate, and in regard to which English and French derivatives do not help you, break up the word , if a compound, into its simple elements of Prefix , Stem , Suffix .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

With respect to the second chief peculiarity, namely, the little mass of viscid matter attached to the end of the caudicle, a long series of gradations can be specified, each of plain service to the plant.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

[6069] Saepe etenim oculuit picta sese hydra sub herba, Sub specie formae, incauto se saepe marito Nequam animus vendit,——— He that marries a wife that is snowy fair alone, let him look, saith [6070] Barbarus, for no better success than Vulcan had with Venus, or Claudius with Messalina.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Therefore our nation is relying on its young men and young women; on the rising, instructed generation, for the secure establishment of popular self-government in the Philippines.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

How can they sit among the spectators, and look upon [Pg 58] wanton exhibitions and shameless exposures of person, such as would anywhere else crimson every modest cheek with shame or redden it with the consciousness of insult?
— from Popular Amusements by J. T. (Jonathan Townley) Crane

Some executives of public school systems require that at least a third, and others at least a half, of all formal examinations shall be topical; and as the examination papers and the grades thereon are subject to the inspection of the executive, this requirement indirectly insures that the teacher shall not neglect the topical recitation.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

Before he thought to seate himselfe next the Gods, but now when hee had done his best, hee must be content with some equall, or perhaps superiour Kings.
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

With one or two stray exceptions, objects precisely similar to the mound sculptures have not hitherto been met with, beyond the valleys where other traces of the Mound-Builders abound; but the points of resemblance between the sculptured mound-pipes and numerous miniature stone mortars found in Peru are too striking to be overlooked.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir