Now [Pg 265] many modern thinkers treat the conceptions of Good and Bad as simple , that is, as neither needing, nor admitting any elucidation, and then they go on, for the most part, to talk very mysteriously and devoutly of an "Idea of the Good," out of which they make a pedestal for their moral system, or at least a cloak for their poverty.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

That night Jasper's father wanted to go to a concert, so Jasper got a box, and sat through it all, not seeing anything but Polly's face, and hearing, "I'd make him happy, any way."
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

Spach knows general works like Conrad Gesner's [14] Bibliotheca , Robert Constantin's compilation (1555) that purported to be a supplement to it, and Nicolaus Basse's cumulation (1592) of the semi-annual catalogues of the German booktrade; national bibliographies like Anton Francesco Doni's La libraria (1556)
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

But I will think that it had to be and say that I am not angry.
— from The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

As Louis Ehlert says: "When in the second act Isolde is awaiting her lover, when the orchestra throbs with a thousand pulses and every nerve becomes a sounding tone, I am no longer the man I am through the rest of the year, nor am I artistically and morally a responsible being: I am a Wagnerian."
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

I'll never be any surer than I am now,—and
— from Play the Game! by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

She knows that I feel myself as well born as she, that I am not ashamed of my parents, that my principles give me a free mind about such things."
— from Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Certes it is impossible for me to come by all, sith there is almost no towne in England, but hath one or more such marts holden yearelie in the same, although some of them (I must needs confesse) be scarse comparable to Lowse faire, and little else bought or sold in them more than good drinke, pies, and some pedlerie trash:
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

I will go back and see that I am not thwarted.
— from Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea. Vol. II by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

One phase of the error was the idea held by the physiocratic writers and by Adam Smith that in agriculture "nature labors along with man," while in manufacture "nature does nothing, man does all."
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter