So far as this is the case we must use the Utilitarian method to ascertain how far persons in special circumstances require a morality more specially adapted to them than Common Sense is willing to concede: and also how far men of peculiar physical or mental constitution ought to be exempted from ordinary rules, as has sometimes been claimed for men of genius, or men of intensely emotional nature, or men gifted with more than usual prudence and self-control.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The rest of the Hellenes would thus immediately be either freed or released from apprehension, as the remaining forces of Athens would be henceforth unable to sustain the war that would be waged against her; while they, the Syracusans, would be regarded as the authors of this deliverance, and would be held in high admiration, not only with all men now living but also with posterity.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Galamhan nga gisugkay sa túmang pagbásul, Thoughts that were disturbed by extreme feelings of repentance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In truth, people no longer sit thus on their banners, I assure you.” Fleur-de-Lys raised her beautiful eyes, full of reproach, “Is that all of which you can assure me?”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Would it not always have been easy for our rear to remedy the accident by promptly standing on to fill the place of the vessels cut off?
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Our moral code must in some way have been evolved from our rude animal instincts.
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

But except for one reason, the news of her sister’s approaching marriage was rather agreeable to Philippa.
— from The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Emily Sarah Holt

Like all the rooms I had seen in Lille—not many—this was panelled, with a polished floor, bare except for one rug.
— from Back to Life by Philip Gibbs

It is thus that, amid the bustle of life, the attention is apt to be engrossed by considerations of a local and an inferior character;—while facts and motives of the highest moment are overlooked, and deeds of our own, long gone by, escape from our remembrance.
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

] Matilda, that she might farther ensure the attachment of the clergy, was willing to receive the crown from their hands; and instead of assembling the states of the kingdom, the measure which the constitution, had it been either fixed or regarded, seemed necessarily to require, she was content that the legate should assemble an ecclesiastical synod, and that her title to the throne should there be acknowledged.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

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— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

When we look at the development of this great fundamental conflict we feel that disputes between rival ecclesiastical systems are of trifling moment; the real task at the present time before every form of religion is the task of vindicating itself before a hostile view of life and things.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

It may be easy for one regarding it from afar, through the telescope only of a book, to exclaim, “Such a little thing!”
— from The Flight of the Shadow by George MacDonald

he interrogated accusingly, keeping his smouldering black eyes fixed on Roger's face, while with his right hand he brought a notebook out of his pocket.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell