It is the Good Universal , interpreted and defined as ‘happiness’ or ‘pleasure,’ at which a Utilitarian considers it his duty to aim: and it seems arbitrary and unreasonable to exclude from the end, as so conceived, any pleasure of any sentient being.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

ATHENIAN: Then all things which have a soul change, and possess in themselves a principle of change, and in changing move according to law and to the order of destiny: natures which have undergone a lesser change move less and on the earth's surface, but those which have suffered more change and have become more criminal sink into the abyss, that is to say, into Hades and other places in the world below, of which the very names terrify men, and which they picture to themselves as in a dream, both while alive and when released from the body.
— from Laws by Plato

In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat down and made, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes out of some old pieces of red cloth.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If such, then, be the meaning of the moral law, and if every Mason is by his tenure obliged to obey it, it follows, that all such crimes as profane swearing or great impiety in any form, neglect of social and domestic duties, murder and its concomitant vices of cruelty and hatred, adultery, dishonesty in any shape, perjury or malevolence, and habitual falsehood, inordinate covetousness, and in short, all those ramifications of these leading vices which injuriously affect the relations of man to God, his neighbor, and himself, are proper subjects of lodge jurisdiction.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Upon the summit stood out the black outline of a stone cross, and past it led an all but imperceptible road which travellers use only when the side-road is obstructed with snow.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The Country on either hand is high broken and rockey; the rock is either soft brown sand stone covered with a thin strata of limestone, or a hard black rugged grannite, both usually in horizontal stratas and the Sandy rock overlaying the other.—Salts and quarts still appear, some coal and pumice stone also appear; the river bottoms are narrow and afford scarcely any timber.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

the iris of the eye is of a silvery colour and puple black.—we covered ourselves partially this evening from the rain by means of an old tent.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Among mosses, especially Polytrichum, in old meadows and pastures. Albany, Summit and South Corinth. Autumn. Peck , 32d Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

On trying to pass a channel through one of these reefs we were grounded, and all had to get out into the water, which in this shallow strait had been so heated by the sun as to be disagreeably warm, and drag our vessel a considerable distance among weeds and sponges, corals and prickly corallines.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

All statutes, charters, and privileges of provinces, cities, or corporations were to remain untouched.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

He gives us a queenly woman, with full throat and stately poise, in the Madonna degli Alberi, in which the two little trees are symbols of the Old and New Testament; or, again, he paints a lovely intellectual face with chiselled and refined features, and sad dark eyes, and contrasts it dramatically with the bluff St. George in armour; and there is another Madonna between St. Francis and St. Catherine, a picture which has a curious effect of artificial light.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

In those circumstances, any English king who might desire to make war against Scotland could always put forward the old claim as a plea for his action.
— from Mary Queen of Scots in History by C. A. Campbell

Chávaḍás : of Aṇahilaváḍa (720–956), 124 ; of Gurjjara race establish a small chiefship at Pañchásar which falls in A.D 696; establish a kingdom at Aṇahilaváḍa , their genealogy, 149–155 , 463 note 2 ; their settlements, 464 , 465 , 466 ; feudatories of Bhinmál, 469 ; their affliction, 513 note 9 .
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

In the meantime, when once called into existence, the plague crept on, and found abundant food in the tone of thought which prevailed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and even, though in a minor degree, throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth, causing a permanent disorder of the mind, and exhibiting in those cities to whose inhabitants it was a novelty, scenes as strange as they were detestable.
— from The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

It will generally well repay the trouble; and the habit of consulting her will increase habits of consideration, and self command; and promote propriety of conduct.
— from The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

The completest misery is, often, permitted to assume a smiling countenance; and p. 317
— from Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy by Richard De Courcy