We shall not espouse either pietism, scepticism, or criticism.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

«Je sens, s'écria-t-il, que la vengeance n'est jamais permise; car si notre ennemi est puissant, elle est imprudente et insensée
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

3. Les troupes françaises seront nourries et entretenues par l’Espagne, et leur solde payée par la France pendant tout le temps de leur passage en Espagne.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

"Half an hour ahead, you said, Number Eight?" Elmer pursued, as he turned the matter over in his mind and began to figure as to just how they should act in order to play the game right.
— from Great Hike; or, The Pride of the Khaki Troop by Douglas, Alan, Captain

They might be called “pot hunters,” but this term can, fortunately, be hardly applied to them as yet, for the remuneration of a prize can scarcely repay the expenses they incur in loss of time, travelling, &c. They, in fact, perform for the love of the amusement, and, it may be said, nothing else except, possibly, renown.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers

As we have elsewhere shown, a keen and embittered struggle was kept up between the canal and the railroad companies until 1857; and even in the latter year the Legislature of the State of New York, finding that railway competition was making serious inroads upon their canal traffic, were considering whether they should not either entirely prohibit the railways from carrying freight, or impose such tolls upon railway tonnage as would cripple the companies in their competition with canals.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

Should not every enlightened prince beware of flatterers, whose object is to lull him to sleep upon the brink of the precipice which they form beneath him? H2 anchor 151.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

"Se l'on fait cotes gamboisiees, que elles soient couchees [Pg 240] deuement sur neufves estoffes, et pointees, enfermees, faites a deux fois, bien et nettement emplies, de bonnes estoffes, soient de coton ou dautres estoffes
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

It could not do that until it became a State, while the Kansas bill allowed a majority of the actual residents to determine whether slavery should or should not exist, even prior to its admission as a State.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

His broad, clean-shaven, patrician face showed no emotion except, perhaps, a shade of irritation at the others’ reception of the tidings.
— from The Highflyers by Clarence Budington Kelland