In the first chapter we found that such reasons were supplied by the notions of Happiness and Excellence or Perfection (including Virtue or Moral Perfection as a prominent element), regarded as ultimate ends, and Duty as prescribed by unconditional rules.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

‘Base is the slave who pays’ is a phrase emphatically reversed at a Welsh wedding.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

nor did any person either rejoice at the news of his death, or speedily forget it.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

At length after a pause and stillness becoming almost painful, Elias rises and stands for a moment or two without a word.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But, besides these reflections, he was detained by a full persuasion that Renaldo would sink under the power and influence of his antagonist, consequently be rendered incapable to provide for his friends; and that he himself, fraught with wiles and experience as he was, could not fail to make himself amends for what he had suffered among a people equally rich and unthinking.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

When he entered on his office, in his frequent harangues from the tribunal, he was not more vehement in restraining the commons than in reproving the senate, "by the listlessness of which body the tribunes of the commons, now become perpetual, by means of their tongues and prosecutions exercised regal authority, not as in a republic of the Roman people, but as if in an ill-regulated family.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

In the long run, however, when the process of purification has come to a successful termination, all those forces which were formerly wasted in the struggle between the disharmonious qualities are at the disposal of the organism as a whole, and this is why purified races have always become stronger and more beautiful.—The Greeks may serve us as a model of a purified race and culture!—and it is to be hoped that some day a pure European race and culture may arise.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

After what has been proved in our deduction of the categories, no one, it is to be hoped, can hesitate as to the proper decision of the question, whether the employment of these pure conceptions of the understanding ought to be merely empirical or also transcendental; in other words, whether the categories, as conditions of a possible experience, relate a priori solely to phenomena, or whether, as conditions of the possibility of things in general, their application can be extended to objects as things in themselves.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

" This led to the growth of as elaborate a scheme of spiritual relationships as that which already hedged round among many tribes the eligibility for marriage among persons even remotely akin to one another.
— from The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton

If it seem precarious to see such close similarity in the local gods of a people extending right across Europe, appeal can be made to the influence of the Celtic temperament, producing everywhere the same results, and to the homogeneity of Celtic civilisation, save in local areas, e.g. the South of Gaul.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

If Jesus' sinfulness of nature did not render his person sinful, this must be true of us,—which is a Pelagian element, revealed also in the denial that for our redemption we need Christ as an atoning sacrifice.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

In this search after quaintness and picturesque effects roofs and ridge-lines are hollowed out with great labor, walls are made to bulge by nailing on furrings beneath the boarding, clear sheet-glass, easily procured of any dimensions, is voted "so inartistic," and the green crown glass and bull's-eyes are taken from some venerable farm-house, where they fitly belonged, to fill the irregular fenestration of a modern parlor.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

“He said, Blessed are the poor ; and promised earthly rewards; and promised that those who maintain righteousness shall be satisfied with meat and drink.”
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Whar'bouts de Pimmerly Plum?' "Brer Tarrypin, he sorter cle'r up de ho'seness in he th'oat, en sing:— "' Poun' er sugar, en a pint er rum, Ain't nigh so sweet ez de Pimmerly Plum! '
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

I never did myself care much about the sex, and seldom had an opportunity of studying their general character, or testing their principles; but still I incline to the opinion, that, where there is not a previous engagement, rank and wealth will, for the most part, outweigh every other consideration.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton