In him who is intoxicated with this violent and tyrannical intention, we discover, of necessity, much imprudence and injustice; the impetuosity of his desire carries him away; these are rash motions, and, if fortune do not very much assist, of very little fruit.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Hence arises the question, 'What is great, what is small?' and thus begins the distinction of the visible and the intelligible.
— from The Republic by Plato

Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating their unclean refrain with redoubled gayety; it was a highly spiced and wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is significant that it is omitted in Parker except as a term applicable to a cross, and the instances and variations given by Berry, "urdy in point paleways" and "contrary urdy," I should be much more inclined to consider as variations of vair; and, though it is always well to settle points which can be settled, I think urdy and its use as a partition line may be well left for further consideration when examples of it come to hand.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It may be found in several collections of Voyages, and there is a good Spanish translation and edition of recent date.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

As a rule, only one form of a word has been translated in the vocabulary, and this is particularly true of verbs, in which the infinitive has had preferential attention.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

No wages can tempt the Wodgate man from his native home, that squatters’ seat which soon assumed the form of a large village, and then in turn soon expanded into a town, and at the present moment numbers its population by swarming thousands, lodged in the most miserable tenements in the most hideous burgh in the ugliest country in the world.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It has also been said that it was regarded as a demon by the worshippers of Bacchus, because it cropped the vines; and that it thus originated the Trageluphoi, or goat-stag monsters mentioned by Plato, 6 and gave us also the word tragedy .
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

German and French are bound to fall off relatively as vernaculars, and this implies a falling off of their importance as culture languages; but the importance of English in this respect is bound to grow.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I may say it, for I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men; ay, friend, she would ha’ shrieked if she had but seen a man till she was in her teens.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

The fragment of a holy Vedic verse; And thus it ran: "He who all things forgives Conquers himself and all things else, and lives Above the reach of wrong or hate or fear, Calm as the gods, to whom he is most dear.
— from Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

This horn was formerly held in high esteem because of the great virtues attributed to it by the ancients, especially against poisons, “which is the reason that so many great persons are fond of it, so that it has been valued at its weight in gold”.
— from The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy by C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson

He was considered to be greedy and voracious, and that it was necessary to glut his altars with blood in order to appease his anger.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

[ 65 ] 1 Classical name of Karûr, a small, but very ancient, town in the Kôyambatûr District of the Madras Presidency.
— from Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Pandit Natesa Sastri

I do not know that I can discern the shades of their meaning; but I am sure that there is a reason for the variation, and that it should not be overlooked.
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

In such a small volume as this it would be impossible to deal with the working of wireless apparatus and the many systems that have been devised for the transmission of photographs over metallic circuits.
— from Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin

The whole company was very attentive to it; it seemed to them that they had never harkened to a sermon with such profit before.
— from The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5) by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

The air thus repelled, the intervening space became a vacuum; and the iron, finding no resistance, approached with an impulsive force, pushed on by the air behind it.”
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

But I am so sorry that madame is at Versailles, and that I am under a necessity of being there myself to-morrow for the rest of this week; but I have a friend, a little Abbé , who will be delighted in the mean time to show you Paris.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

If some of the most intelligent and refined white people are willing to face the bitter ostracism of the South and work for their benefit to the utmost limit of their strength—and sometimes, as in the case of the late lamented President Ware, far beyond it—and besides all this put their own children into the same classes with them, the negroes must indeed be vile and thankless if it did not stimulate all that is good and repress all that is bad in them.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887 by Various