Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

As representing religious ideas at an earlier stage than any other literary monuments of the ancient world, they are of inestimable value to those who study the evolution of religious beliefs.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

A reading room is also open for the use of the members, supplied with the best English and foreign periodicals.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

For then a cognition of God and of His Being (Theology) is possible by means of properties and determinations of His causality merely thought in Him according to analogy, which has all requisite reality in a practical reference though only in respect of this (as moral).—An Ethical Theology is therefore possible; for though morality can subsist without theology as regards its rule, it cannot do so as regards the final design which this proposes, unless Reason in respect of it is to be renounced.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Men had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain moral efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Justice is a name for certain classes of moral rules, which concern the essentials of human well-being more nearly, and are therefore of more absolute obligation, than any other rules for the guidance of life; and the notion which we have found to be of the essence of the idea of justice, that of a right residing in an individual, implies and testifies to this more binding obligation.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

In this character he is called Musagetes, and is always represented robed in a long flowing garment; his lyre, to the tones of which he appears to be singing, is suspended by a band across the chest; his head is encircled by a wreath of laurel, and his long hair, streaming down over his shoulders, gives him a somewhat effeminate appearance.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

So it has been found that where you take children, modern children, at least boys who are sons of educated parents, and put them in large masses by themselves, they will, without apparently any reading, rapidly invent a notion of law; that is, they will invent a certain set of customs which are the same thing to them as law, and which indeed are the same as law.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Accordingly Marcus was M. Atilius Regulus remains in Africa, winter of B.C. 256-255. left behind with forty ships, fifteen thousand infantry, and five hundred cavalry; while Lucius put the crowd of captives on board, and having embarked his men, sailed along the coast of Sicily without encountering any danger, and reached Rome.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Into the first of these inlets flows the Awun River, rising in Awun Lake, about one hundred feet wide at its month, and which we were able to ascend with our canoe about one mile, when rapids were reached.
— from Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia by Newton H. Chittenden

I was immensely appealed to, I remember, by a phase in the career of Charles Reade's Griffith Gaunt , in which that gentleman lived incognito for awhile in a remote rural inn, and wooed (if he did not actually marry) the buxom daughter of the house, while his real wife was being accused of having murdered him.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

There are certain problems in archæology that seem to possess a real romantic interest, and foremost among these is the question of the so-called Venus of Melos.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

It proceeds, for the most part, county by county; its routes are railway routes; it almost ignores roadside scenery, and it enlarges, very usefully sometimes, upon the internal details of churches and of other edifices, with which the motorist can rarely be concerned; for, as it is not intelligent to hurry through the country always, so it is not motoring to "potter" at every place.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

Leaving the drum, bugle, and remaining rockets in a safe place, our friends advanced until all could see the three desperadoes quite plainly.
— from Boys of The Fort; Or, A Young Captain's Pluck by Edward Stratemeyer

So it came to pass that one night I found myself in the ancient town of Oviedo, in a very large, scantily-furnished, and remote room in an ancient posada, formerly a palace of the counts of Santa Cruz.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

commanders, and continually since then have remained within the country, committing as well open and avowed rieffis (robberies) in all parts . . .
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

We Cavaliers would all rally round it; and at these times, our Governor talked like the bravest of the brave.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Inventive Indian, who caught a Remarkable Rabbit in a Stupendous Silver Spoon.
— from More Nonsense by Edward Lear

Peter, with a frown, wrathfully turned a fragment of the rock and reeling raised it and dropped it into the depths.
— from When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev