They also came to another stately Province, bordering on St. Martha ; whose inhabitants did them many egregious and notable services, bestowing on them innumerable quantities of Gold besides many other gifts, but when they were upon departure, in retribution of their Civil Treating and Deportment the German Tyrant, commanded that all the Indians, with their Wives and Children if possible, should be taken into Custody; inclosed in some large capacious place, and that there it should be signified unto them, whosoever desired to be set at Liberty should redeem himself at the Will and Pleasure (as to price;) of the unjust Governour, or at a certain rate imposed upon himself, his wife and every Childs head; and to expedite the business prohibited the administration or allowance of any food to them, till the Gold required for Redemption was paid down to the utmost grain.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Illud forsitan quaerendum sit, num haec communitas, quae maxime est apta naturae, sit etiam moderationi modestiaeque semper anteponenda.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He had observed my embarrassment, and now seemed to enhance the merit of this little success.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wherefore Ptolemy, forming his battalions into column, led them to the point where the hill seemed most easily assailable, not surrounding it entirely, but leaving room for the barbarians to flee if they were inclined to do so.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Such convictions, when they exist in a people, or in any appreciable portion of one, are entitled to influence in virtue of their mere existence, and not solely in that of the probability of their being grounded in truth.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Sir Galahad and St. Agnes are in the vein of Keats and Coleridge, but Keats and Coleridge have produced nothing more exquisite and nothing so ethereal.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

My eyes are not so good as they were, and the light here is so bad that I can't see to mend laces except just at the window, where there's always a shocking draught—enough to give one one's death of cold.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

My electoral hat and my ermine are not so precious to me as the cross of Jesus Christ.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Then she could have mourned his loss and cherished his memory ever after; now she could only pity and despise his folly.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

On the 4th of September 1938 the government of which Von Neurath was a member enacted a new Secret Reich Defense Law which defined various official responsibilities in clear anticipation of war.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

It is the most exclusive and nicest society in the school; the seven nicest girls in West Haven.
— from The Motor Maids' School Days by Katherine Stokes

My ears are not so sharp as yours.”
— from With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

With his shoes on he travelled more easily, although not so swiftly, and after an hour of very rough walking he heard a sound which made him stop instantly and listen.
— from Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton

It is easy to see in Virgil where borrowed methods end and native strength begins; for, in spite of being close imitators of the Greek, there is a character peculiar to the writers of Rome by means of which they have acquired an appearance of dignity and worthiness all their own.
— from The Interdependence of Literature by Georgina Pell Curtis

My electoral hat and my ermine are not so precious to me as the cross of Jesus Christ.”
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

When the whole army was regularly assembled, the Khalifa announced publicly that he would lead the faithful in person; but at the same time he arranged privately that many Emirs and notables should beg him not to expose his sacred person.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

[151] Boswell, in the last of his Hypochondriacks , says:—'I perceive that my essays are not so lively as I expected they would be, but they are more learned.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell