, 102-103 , 493-494 ; Sentiment, 26-28 , 77 ; Sentiments, ( a ) difficulties of admitting or rejecting them as motives, 365-367 [523] , ( b ) theory of their derivation from experiences of pleasure and pain, 461 , 462 ; and Quasi-moral Sentiments, 28 , 173 , 174 ; Motive, 77 , 204 seq. , 223 ; Motive, varying forms of:—( a ) Reverence for Authority, ( b ) Religious Sentiment, ( c ) Self-respect, ( d ) sentiment of Freedom, ( e ) Admiration or Aspiration, 39-40 ; instincts and crude Utilitarian reasonings—discrepancy between, 466 , 467 ; Intuitions, 211-216 passim ; Intuitions, existence of, 211 , 212 , 337 ; Intuitions, connexion between ( a ) Existence and Origin of, 211 , 212 , ( b ) Origin and Validity of, 34 note 1, 212-213 , 212 note 2, 214 ; Intuitions, Particular and General, 99-102 , 214-216 ; Rules, imperative and indicative forms of, 101 note 1; Rules and Axioms, importance of, 229 ; Axioms, abstract but significant, 379-384 , 505 ; Axioms, Kant’s view of, 385-386 , 386 notes 1 and 2; Maxims, 337-361 passim ; Maxims which are , and which are not , directly self-evident, distinction between, 383 ; Responsibility, 59-60 ; Obligation, 217 ; and non-moral excellence distinguished, 426 , 427 ‘Moral’ (in narrower sense) and ‘Prudential’ distinguished, 25-26 Moral Courage, 333 note 3 Moral Philosophy, some problems of modern, 374 Morality—‘inductive’ and ‘intuitive,’ double ambiguity of antithesis between, 97-99 ; a priori and a posteriori (or inductive and intuitive), 97 ; and growth of Sympathy, 455-456 , 455 note 1 Morality of Common Sense (Intuitionism), 85 , 102 , 229 , 263 Note, 337-361 passim ; and Positive Morality, 215 ; and Egoism, 498-499 (cf. Happiness and Duty ); development of, not perfectly Utilitarian, 455-456 ; axiomatic character of its maxims questioned, 338 , 342 , 343 ; furnishes valuable practical rules but not ultimate axioms, 360 , 361 ; and Utilitarianism, 361 note 1, 423-457 passim , 461 , 498 , 499 ; first principles of, as “middle axioms” of Utilitarianism, 461 ; Mill’s view of, 461 note 1; not to be accepted by Utilitarianism without modification, 461 seq.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It chanced that a cub reporter sat in the audience, detailed there on a day dull of news and impressed by the urgent need of journalism for sensation.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Your horrible and heavy breath makes the light flicker in the lamp, And on my brow I feel the damp and dreadful dews of night and death.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I do not see how any tangible and adequate benefit to the Nation would have resulted from such a dubious disposition of National funds.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

Wordsworth's poetry was not appreciated for a considerable time, but he calmly wrote on, undismayed by the ridicule poured forth on the "Lake School of Poets," which included Coleridge and Southey, and gradually his calm and dignified descriptions of nature asserted their rightful influence.
— from What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Gordon Home

THE NEGRO NUMANTIA One of the most glorious achievements in the history of the Iberian Peninsula was the long and desperate defence of Numantia against the Roman legionaries sent to effect the destruction of the city.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

Fish, bird, and quadruped are alike sensitive to touch, and they are alike capable of movement, though the mechanical contrivances by which locomotion is secured vary greatly; but a double distribution of nerve fibres in all cases provides for these two characteristics of animal life.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

“Well, Yanna, there is always a dreadful debasement of nature, following violations of popular morality.
— from Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia E. Barr

At first the distance separating the two mirrors was from six to ten miles, but eventually the system was tested from the Kumagong mountain, about 2000 feet above the sea level, to the lighthouse at the entrance to Port Jackson, 400 feet above sea level, a direct distance of nearly forty miles.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

“Dey sholy did go pass hyar, gemmun, and dey wuz drivin’ as do de ole Nick was affer
— from Bert Wilson at the Wheel by J. W. Duffield

Verum indocti et impiæ naturae, quibus vere Fatum non concessit a Dius dona obtinere, neque habere Jovis immortalis notitiam, non audientes Deos et divinos viros; Deos quidem omnes recusaverunt, prohibitos autem dæmones non solum nullis odiis insequi, sed etiam revereri delegerunt.
— from Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Siculus Diodorus