En aquellas manos inexpertas, en aquel cerebro henchido de viento, en aquella presunción ridícula había puesto el Estado las funciones más delicadas y más difíciles de la humana 25 justicia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Melancholicus se videre et audire putat daemones.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A verry cool morning wind from the S. W. we Set out verry early and proceeded on, last night we could not Collect more dry willows the only fuel, than was barely Suffient to cook Supper, and not a Sufficency to cook brackfast this morning, passd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Sub equestris finem certaminis coorta est peditum pugna, primo et viribus et animis par, dum constabant ordines Gallis Hispanisque ; tandem Romani, diu ac saepe conisi, obliqua fronte acieque densa impulere hostium cuneum nimis tenuem eoque parum 5 validum a cetera prominentem acie.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Monday, September 17, 1711 Steele Non solum Scientia, quæ est remota a Justitia, Calliditas potius quam Sapientia est appellanda; verum etiam Animus paratus ad periculum, si suâ cupiditate, non utilitate communi impellitur, Audaciæ potius nomen habeat, quam Fortitudinis.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

246 E; Laches 197 B 63 Praeclarum igitur illud Platonis: "Non," inquit, "solum scientia, quae est remota ab iustitia, calliditas potius quam sapientia est appellanda, verum etiam animus paratus ad periculum, si sua cupiditate, non utilitate communi impellitur, audaciae potius nomen habeat quam fortitudinis."
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Then too we hurt ourselves, when to defend A single verse, we quarrel with a friend; Repeat unasked; lament, the wit’s too fine For vulgar eyes, and point out every line.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

I cannot hope to catch the varying emphasis and peculiar coloring of feminine delineation, for my narrator was a woman; but I'll try to give at least its substance.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

For the opinion of a foreign military observer on the phenomenal accuracy of backwoods markmanship, see General Victor Collot's "Voyage en Amérique," p. 242.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

I do not regard those buried notes as being proof or as being particularly valuable, except as proving Peary to be one of the most ungracious and selfish characters in history.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook

In North Africa Genseric the Vandal established a powerful dominion, and set about preparing an invasion of Italy by sea.
— from The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire by W.E. (William Edwy) Vine

Reading between the lines of the last-quoted letter, it is easy to see that Mendelssohn was much annoyed at the public announcements, made by Mr. Lumley in his opera prospectus of 1847, to the effect that "The celebrated Dr. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy will likewise visit England, and produce an Opera expressly composed for Her Majesty's Theatre, the Libretto, founded on 'The Tempest' of Shakespeare, (122) written by Scribe."
— from The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards

Dieu, qui par sa justice le enuoye pour punir les hommes et chastier leurs péchés, immitamque in vos bestias agri quae consumant vos, et pecora vestra, et ad paucitatem cuncta redigant , pouuant dire maintenant ce que Dieu a dit auant le Deluge
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

Nor these only, but all impatience, all violent eagerness, all passionate and perturbed feeling, fill the brain with thick and hot blood, suited to the service of desire, unfit for the uses of thought.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

With memorable and caustic wit he left the inscription as it stood, just adding, "Vu et approuvé par nous, Commandant Russe de la Ville de Coblence, Janvier 1er, 1814."
— from The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Everyone advised them to remain at Innsbruck, where they already edified the faithful by their virtuous example, and prevented apostasy.
— from Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

Behold, then the happiness of man is the very end and purpose of the gospel.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

His song is not particularly sweet and soft; on the contrary, it is a little hard and shrill, like that of the Indigo-Bird or Oriole; but for fluency, volubility, execution, and power of imitation, he is unsurpassed (and in the last-named particular unequalled) by any of our Northern birds.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various