i t i v e contributors get a lot of friends and a disproportional amount of help from others.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

aq i ꝓ lo fiume gli ſonno 17 ho 20 Leghe dali alquanti giorni vene el capitanio genneralle cõ li alt cap
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Sed verius est consuti genus esse, quo necessariae partes tegerentur.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette &c. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity &c. 82; consuetude,.dustoor[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Nov vellement Re veves et Corri gees .
— from Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang

Moore found the ballads of Green Isle Were oft obscured beneath the soil, As miner digging in a mine Finds rubbish 'mong the gold so fine, So Moore placed dross in the waste basket And enshrined jewels in casket, Where all may view each charming gem In Ireland's grand old diadem.
— from Poems of James McIntyre by James McIntyre

Nees Von Esenbeck (Christian Gottfried), German naturalist, b. Odenwald, 14 Feb. 1776.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

4. The effects of the subjection to vanity: every creature groneth with us, v. 22.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham