de diocessi S. R. E. seu de patrimoniis iterum increpantes commonemus, ut si ea restituere noluerit hereticum eum pro hujusmodi errore perseverantia decernemus, (Epist.
— 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

lready prescribed to philosophy by Bacon of Verulam when he said: ea demum vera est philosophia, quae mundi ipsius voces fidelissime reddit, et veluti dictante mundo conscripta est, et nihil aliud est, quam ejusdem simulacrum et reflectio , neque addit quidquam de proprio, sed tantum iterat et resonat (De Augm. Scient., L. 2, c. 13).
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

We shall exchange roles: now it is I who shall have to seek the signs of latent terror upon your pallid countenance.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

[494] Some extensive ruins near the angle formed by the Adhem (the ancient Physcus) and the Tigris, and the remains of the Nahr-awan canal, are said to mark the site of Opis.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Sometimes Emile receives notes of invitation from his father or mother, his relations or friends; he is invited to a dinner, a walk, a boating expedition, to see some public entertainment.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tal mi fec'io, quai son color che stanno, per non intender cio` ch'e` lor risposto, quasi scornati, e risponder non sanno.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

—Sí; y hace Ud. bien en [13] mencionar ese punto al tratar de la educación, pues la conscripción militar es una verdadera escuela en la que los jóvenes de veinte años completan su educación, reciben nociones de agricultura y se
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Celsus gives a good description of the catheter both male and female (VII. xxvi): Res vero interdum cogit emoliri manu urinam, quum illa non redditur, aut quia senectute iter eius collapsum est, aut quia calculus vel concretum aliquid ex sanguine intus se opposuit: ac mediocris quoque inflammatio saepe eam reddi naturaliter prohibet.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Something in his Provençal cadence gave a rhythm to his simplest speech: the words fell sadly on his listener's ear, though on the sensuous luxuriance of his own existence no shadow ever rested, no skeleton ever crouched.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

[75] At all events, neither Professor Smawl nor her William Spike ever returned; no exploring expedition has found a trace of mule or lady, of William or the dingue.
— from In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

When they were alone together after that repast, he said: “My dear children, I do not think that this story of ours should have an unhappy ending, and every young woman of sense who has read Mr. Richardson’s novels—assuming that any young woman of sense ever read novels—will tell you that a convent in a foreign land cannot possibly be regarded as furnishing a happy ending to a story.
— from A Nest of Linnets by Frank Frankfort Moore

[28] See E. Reclus, Nouvelle geographie universelle (French edition), vol.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various

We find that the great chemist or philosopher is not only a great scientist, but that he is also, as Faraday undoubtedly was, a man of a simple, earnest, reverent nature, a man whose married life was one series of years of love-making, who was a cheerful, pleasant friend and companion, and intense and earnest lover of children.
— from Michael Faraday, Man of Science by Walter Jerrold

Incipit : ‘Acto prologo istius quintae partis hujus voluminis quam voco compendium studii theologiae, in quo quidem comprehendo in summa intentionem totius operis, extra partem ejus signans omnia impedimenta totius studii et remedia, nunc accedo ad tractatum exponens ea quae necessaria sunt theologiae de perspectiva et de visu.’
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

[110] Pennsylvania, by her House of Assembly, spoke also to the same effect:— “ Resolved, N. C. D. , That this House think it their duty thus firmly to assert with modesty and decency their inherent rights , that their posterity may learn and know that it was not with their consent and acquiescence that any taxes should be levied on them by any persons but their own representatives.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The fact that statistical evidence reveals no startling disturbance in area enclosed or population displaced, is no bar to the belief that, both in immediate consequences and in ultimate effects, the heavy blows dealt in that age at the traditional organisation of agriculture were an episode of the first importance in economic and social development.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney