The eloquence of Rienzi was prompt and persuasive: the multitude is always prone to envy and censure: he was stimulated by the loss of a brother and the impunity of the assassins; nor was it possible to excuse or exaggerate the public calamities.
— 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

“Science,” he would say, “concerns itself with none of the causes of human happiness (for it has nothing to do with producing anything): Practical Wisdom has this recommendation, I grant, but where is the need of it, since its province is those things which are just and honourable, and good for man, and these are the things which the good man as such does; but we are not a bit the more apt to do them because we know them, since the Moral Virtues are Habits; just as we are not more apt to be healthy or in good condition from mere knowledge of what relates to these (I mean, of course, things so called not from their producing health, etc., but from their evidencing it in a particular subject), for we are not more apt to be healthy and in good condition merely from knowing the art of medicine or training.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam's people, when the son of Saturn from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in punishment of their present treachery.
— from The Iliad by Homer

In these cases the augmentation very generally consisted of a chief and thereon a representation either of some fort or ship or action, and though the field of the augmentation is officially blazoned argent in nearly every case, there is no doubt the artist was permitted, and perhaps intended, to depict clouds and other "atmosphere" to add to the verisimilitude of the picture.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Good wishes, praise, and prayers, Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

33. Receive the gifts of fortune without pride; and part with them without reluctance.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

So the new canvas was produced, and Philip was put into pose after pose without satisfying the artist.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

In the former were placed a pair of pistols; and the latter supported a knapsack, a large gourd in the shape of a bottle, and several other articles of a very miscellaneous description.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

This series of manuals for beginners with pencil and palette will include five small books.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

These facts were published, and prompted scientific men to try other experiments.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

The Swiss excelled in single feats of arms, and amongst the Catholic captains stands out conspicuously the valiant Ludwig von Pfyffer, of Lucerne, who played a part, as regards political influence, not unlike that of Waldmann, and was nicknamed the "Swiss King."
— from The Story of Switzerland by Lina Hug

The former gives the order in which we pretend, and perhaps ineffectually try, to admire men and things; the latter, that in which we do admire them.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

“Dr. Andre, tell me,” Jimmie was in deadly earnest now, “would it be possible for one to produce a gas that would put a person to sleep but not kill them?” “Certainly,” said the chemist.
— from Jimmy Drury: Candid Camera Detective by David O'Hara

Whatever hardship and toil, whatever pain and persecution, whatever reviling and contumely, whatever privation and poverty may be necessary to the accomplishment of this great end the Master himself gladly bore, and He asks His followers to do the same.
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde