In considering the force of these sanctions, I shall eliminate those pleasures and pains which lie in the anticipation of rewards and punishments in a future life: for as we are now supposing the calculations of Rational Egoism to be performed without taking into account any feelings that are beyond the range of experience, it will be more consistent to exclude also the pleasurable or painful anticipations of such feelings.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Besides those secret powers which it was universally believed that he exercised in so pitiless a fashion, he was a high public official, a municipal councillor, and a commissioner of roads, elected to the office through the votes of the ruffians who in turn expected to receive favours at his hands.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Latin general, not in the least discouraged by his wound, stirs up the fight; and because he saw his own men begin to give ground, sent for a company of Roman exiles to support them, commanded by Tarquin's son.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

339 Other Continental writers again assert that Cromwell, the arch-opponent of the Catholic Church, was "a higher initiate of masonic mysteries," and used the system for his own elevation to power 340 ; further, that he found himself outdistanced by the Levellers; that this sect, whose name certainly suggests masonic inspiration, adopted for its symbols the square and compass, 341 and in its claim of real equality threatened the supremacy of the usurper.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The visible box now becomes a stimulus capable of releasing either the bodily habits or the word-habit, i.e. development has brought about two things: (1) a series of functional connections among arcs which run from visual receptor to muscles of throat, and (2) a series of already earlier connected arcs which run from the same receptor to the bodily muscles....
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Or is true good something that perhaps nobody calls good nor knows of, something with no other characteristic or relation except that it is simply good?
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The paths which the rays take after reflection must make angles with b N and c O respectively equal to A b N , A c O .
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

After giving me a variety of charges, or rather entreaties, to watch and attend to the health, spirits, and affairs of the friends she was leaving, she said to me, "Et dtes Mlle.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

She loved the earl of Essex, and, when she heard that he was married to the countess of Rutland, exclaimed that she never "knew sorrow before.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

If this is so, and the course of recent events tends to confirm a conjecture made soon after
— from The New Germany by George Young

The truth is, that all that offends Protestants in the Church of Rome, except the papacy, exists in even a more offensive form in the Greek schismatic Church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

The powers of certain magistrates ceased with the sacred limits of the Urbs , while the privileges accorded to a citizen of Rome extended to the village and the suburbs and finally embraced the entire Roman world.
— from Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson

Now if, in compliance with olden forms of division and a scholastic phraseology, it be necessary to deliver a scheme of ontology as the philosophical science and cognition of really existent things, and also of their true and real essence, it is clear that such is only conceivable and possible by means of such an applied theology.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

But since their return to Paris another individual has occupied her mind,—a bold and enterprising man, capable of risking everything to compromise and thus win an heiress.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

With a little reinforcement, the volunteers could have pushed beyond Priest’s Rapids up the left bank of the Columbia, driving the hostiles across the river into the Yakima country, when the main columns of regulars, entering that country from the Dalles and up the Yakima River, could have “put the hostiles to their last battle.”
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens