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Ought a Utilitarian, then, to accept the Morality of Common Sense provisionally as a body of Utilitarian doctrine?
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
Indeed from the considerations that we have just surveyed it is but a short and easy step to the conclusion that in the Morality of Common Sense we have ready to hand a body of Utilitarian doctrine; that the “rules of morality for the multitude” are to be regarded as “positive beliefs of mankind as to the effects of actions on their happiness,”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
SYN: Use, appropriate, burn, oat up, devour, spend, squander, assimilate, occupy, absorb, employ, utilize, waste, destroy, spoil, ravage, expend, pine, wither, decay.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
It is de infallible receipt for de scurvy, all heats in de bloodt, and breaking out upon de skin.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot
" Then Pisistratus said, "Menelaus, son of Atreus, you are right in thinking that this young man is Telemachus, but he is very modest, and is ashamed to come here and begin opening up discourse with one whose conversation is so divinely interesting as your own.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer
But that He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and found in fashion as a man, humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, and that the death of the cross: wherefore God exalted Him from the dead, and gave Him a name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should how, of t
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
The decoction of the leaves and seeds drank somewhat warm before the fits of agues, whether they be tertains or quartans, alters the fits, and, by often using, doth take them quite away.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper
We walked along, both of us depressed.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
‘Well, hanged if I could take it, and she—she could not stand it either, and both of us—’ ‘Do not be elegiac,’ interrupted Logan.
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
My wife also presents her humble commendations, and both of us desire to be remembered to Madame and to Mademoiselle de Brédan.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin
It shall not be a book of ultimate definiteness or a book of exact science.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter
On the evening of May 21st an artillery bombardment opened under direction of Brig
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
“And there he stands in memory to this day, Erect, self-poised, a rugged face half seen Against a background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass That simple duty hath no place for fear.”
— from Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Caroline Clifford Newton
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox
He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
— from Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers by Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland
"We are both of us delighted to come.
— from In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown
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