Je donne présentement une série de communications suite à mon rapport: Le gouvernement du Canada et le français sur internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Virgines vestales, et sacrum ignem Romae extinxit, et omnes ubique per orbem terrae religiones, unum hoc studens ut solus deus coleretur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Je suis devenu aussi une sorte de célébrité, ou au moins quelqu'un de familier dans certains cercles.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Nothing could be more depressing than my connection with this opera under such dismal circumstances.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Unless we set up some definite criterion representing the ideal end by which to judge whether a given attitude or act is approximating or moving away, our sole alternative is to withdraw all influences of the environment lest they interfere with proper development.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Les "majors" américaines et allemandes s'orientent clairement vers une solution de ce type.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I found, as a fellow-passenger in the coach, Judge Henry Boyce, of the United States District Court, with whom I had made acquaintance years before, at St. Louis, and, as we neared Alexandria, he proposed that we should stop at Governor Moore's and spend the night.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Hoc unum praemoneo domine ut sis diligens circa victum, sine quo cetera remedia frustra adhibentur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If those concerned agreed, and desired him to act for them, he would appear before the United States District Court in the morning and libel the vessel in admiralty proceedings.
— from The Boy Aeronauts' Club; or, Flying for Fun by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

This piece of stupidity complicated the question, until Sixte du Chatelet condescended to inform these unlettered folk that the prefatory announcement was no oratorical flourish, but a statement of fact, and added that the poems had been written by a Royalist brother of Marie-Joseph Chenier, the Revolutionary leader.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"Now, let us proceed to stir up some people and ask them to give us some dry clothes and a night's lodging.
— from Madge Morton's Secret by Amy D. V. Chalmers

See U. S. daily Consular Reports , February 15, 1904 (No. 1877), and the Tsūshō Isan , October 8, 1903, pp.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

But when the flowers of one variety were crossed with pollen from a slightly different variety, which had grown under somewhat different conditions,—that is, by a fresh stock,—the seedlings derived from this cross exceeded in height and weight those from the self-fertilised flowers in an extraordinary degree.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

"Few thinking people amongst us can regard war as anything but a direful necessity arising out of our present conditions; only the thoughtless and those who batten upon such disasters can rejoice in the idea of what I have heard termed 'a jolly good war!'
— from To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks

Who is judge of the United States district court of this district? 6.
— from Elements of Civil Government A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers by Alexander L. Peterman

Again, can you give me reasons for believing that the moderate differences between the female pheasant, the female Gallus bankiva, the female of black grouse, the pea-hen, the female partridge, have all special references to protection under slightly different conditions?
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them, but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius Posthumus: “In studio rei amplificandæ apparebat, non avaritiæ prædam, sed instrumentum bonitati quæri.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon