For ages physicians have been under the dominion of prejudices which have only recently given way; and now there are as many opinions in medicine as in theology, and an equal degree of scepticism and some want of toleration about both.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

[Pg xxvi] take as an example "Death and the Woodman," since on this subject two great poets have weakly contended against our fabulist.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Hood, therefore, we are told, intended to appear at early daylight, in order of and ready for battle, and fall upon the eastern ships, filing by them with his whole fleet (a, a ’ ), thus concentrating the fire of all upon a few of the enemy; then turning away, so as to escape the guns of the others, he proposed, first wearing and then tacking, to keep his fleet circling in long procession (a ’ , a ’ ’ ) past that part of the enemy's ships chosen for attack.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

(5) The Annales, ab excessu divi Augusti , in sixteen Books, containing the history of the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, 14-68 A.D.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I told Don Fernando at parting, that as I was now his, he might see me on other nights in the same way, until it should be his pleasure to let the matter become known; but, except the following night, he came no more, nor for more than a month could I catch a glimpse of him in the street or in church, while I wearied myself with watching for one; although I knew he was in the town, and almost every day went out hunting, a pastime he was very fond of.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To attempt an empirical deduction of either of these classes would be labour in vain, because the distinguishing characteristic of their nature consists in this, that they apply to their objects, without having borrowed anything from experience towards the representation of them.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Thus, at an entertainment, do not discourse how people ought to eat, but eat as you ought.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Notice of this important change was at once sent to all parts of the army, and every division commander was cautioned to be always prepared for battle in any shape.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

That it would have been desirable, independently of political considerations, to have taken advantage of the overland route at the earliest possible period; and, apart from such considerations, it is much to be regretted that the steps that were taken in September to transmit small bodies of troops by this route were not resorted to at an earlier date.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

They replied that at an earlier day such a course might have been practicable, but that the sects had become quite too numerous for coercion.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

But there is one way in which fox of the wilderness and fox of the town are alike easily deceived.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

With great difficulty Ellinor now assisted Madeline to rise; her ancle was violently sprained, and she could not put her foot to the ground; but though she had evinced so much dread at the apparition of the stranger, she now testified an almost equal degree of fortitude in bearing pain.
— from Eugene Aram — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Our antiquaries, from the testimony of Cæsar as to its use in war by the Britons, are forced to admit an earlier date, but it is hardly, if ever, found in graves.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

And this manifestly applies to life at home, or in a day- school, or in a boarding-school to an almost equal degree."
— from Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys by Frederick Arthur Sibly

If we take the first and second to have occurred on Easter-day, and the last to have been the appearance to them again “after eight days,” when St. Thomas was present, then the appearance to St. James must have taken place between the “even” of Easter-day and Low Sunday.
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Quirinus says that he affirmed that the Americans abhorred every doctrine opposed to civil and spiritual freedom; and that the American sons of the [Pg 569] Church loved her, because she was the freest society in the world.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

There exists in the breasts of most of those who have served, or are serving, in the Army, an Esprit de Corps —an attachment to everything belonging to their Regiment; to such persons a narrative of the services of their own Corps cannot fail to prove interesting.
— from Historical Record of the Fifteenth, or, the Yorkshire East Riding, Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848 by Richard Cannon