If, however, the calamity is one which might have been foreseen and averted by proper care, my duty becomes more doubtful: for then by relieving him I seem to be in danger of encouraging improvidence in others.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Nestor alone escaped in flowery Gerenon.' Fragment #12—Eustathius 1709 , Hom. 1796.39: 'So well-girded Polycaste, the youngest daughter of Nestor, Neleus' son, was joined in love with Telemachus through golden Aphrodite and bare Persepolis.' Fragment #13—Scholiast on Homer, Od.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

“N’est-ce pas immoral?” was all she said, after a brief pause.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As an ornamental finish to the Kantian system of morals [Pg 101] such a theory might after all be passed over.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The army covered itself by obtaining the fortresses of Brailoff, Varna, and Silistria, and afterward by preparing a depot at Sizeboli.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

They had to all appearance been placed in the Vault for several days; The bread was hard, and the water tainted; Yet never did I taste food to me so delicious.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

But by degrees, as the war continued, the terror wore off; the danger came to be better appreciated, and better provided against; our trade was carried on in large fleets, under regular convoys, and with great safety.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Jupiter, annoyed at being pestered in this way, sent a Stork to rule over them, who no sooner arrived among them than he began to catch and eat the Frogs as fast as he could.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their Creator; nor could it have been the less pure and acceptable because Phoebe's young breath mingled with it, as the fragrance floated past the window.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And 'tis most part true which that Caledonian lady, [6177] Argetocovus, a British prince's wife, told Julia Augusta, when she took her up for dishonesty, We Britons are naught at least with some few choice men of the better sort, but you Romans lie with every base knave, you are a company of common whores.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The men were evidently burning pieces of cork, adding tallow and a black powder, and then rubbing the precious composition over their hands and faces.
— from The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland

Thirty years ago, before the railways came, it was a commercial centre and a busy, prosperous place; but nowadays its streets are deserted, its fine old churches seem to be tumbling to decay, and only on market days does the typically English town awaken from its lethargy.
— from The Tickencote Treasure by William Le Queux

There are more large craft about, and boating people do not care for that.
— from The Thames by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

" I did so, and released him, when, cautioning me to be silent, he left the street by a certain byway, and threading such devious passages as in the growing darkness I could scarce distinguish to follow him by, he led me on, up and down, through courts and alleys, beneath penthouse roofs and neglected arches, until I came near to doubting his good faith and was about to use my old device of retaining his allegiance at the sword's point, when he came out suddenly into the lane, at the opposite end to that I had before entered it from Tower Hill; and so stood still before the secret low door.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

He said: “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:—May we all live to a green old age and be prosperous and happy.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

To the other contest between them he brought an amazing sureness, a suppleness, power, and audacity beyond praise.
— from Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

The king of Prussia, in his march through Lusatia, was still attended by count Daun, at the head of his grand army, and both passed the Elbe about the latter end of October.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

By and by he saw one coming down from the town at a brisk pace; a man of his own height, but of sparer frame than his own.
— from Frey and His Wife by Maurice Hewlett

Used to paint pottery, and as a blue pigment.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

His purpose was not to right a specific and concrete wrong, for there had been none, but to assert as a broad principle of everlasting application that a Christian king may not dispose of the land owned by heathens merely because of his Christianity.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston