To him innumerable objects and sites on the right hand and on the left, in almost every quarter, called up reminiscences, the growth partly of his own experience and observation, and partly the residuum of discourse with others, all invested with a certain degree of rational, human interest, as it seemed to him.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

To govern a country under responsibility to the people of that country, and to govern one country under responsibility to the people of another, are two very different things.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

punpal n person whom one calls up regularly to talk to on the phone, but whom one does not know in person.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

' It is easy to guess at the poor old man's concern, upon reading this letter from a gentleman of so much consideration.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The Monk could hardly breathe for excitement, when the Judge caught the beginning of the story, and was so interested in it that with head thrown back and card uplifted, ready to take the trick, he sat quiet and only alarmed the Bernardine, until, when the story was ended, he played his knave, and said with a laugh:— “Let whoever will praise the civilisation of the Germans, or the strict discipline of the Muscovites; let the men of Great Poland 46 learn from the Suabians to go to law over a fox, and summon constables to arrest a hound that has ventured into another man's grove; in Lithuania, thank the Lord, we keep up the old ways:
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Morality of Common Sense ) Common Sense aversion to admit Happiness as sole ultimate Good, explanation of, 402-406 Compassion, 262 , 371 Conditional prescriptions (Hypothetical Imperatives), 6 , 7 Conjugal relation, the duties relating to it, 254 , 255 , 256 , 255 notes 1 and 2, 347 , 348 , 348 note 1 Conscience, popular view of, 99 ; jural view of, 100-101 Conscience (Moral Faculty) and Benevolence, Butler’s view of the relation between, 86 , 86 note 2; and Self-love, Butler’s view of relation between, 119 , 120 , 200 , 200 note 2, 327 note 1, 366 Conscious Utilitarianism rather the adult than the germinal form of morality, 455-457 Consciousness not normally without pleasure or pain, 125 Consequences of actions, ulterior, 96 , 97 ; may be judged desirable without reference to pleasure or pain, 97 Contract, claims arising from, 269 ; and Freedom, 276 , 276 note 1 Courage, 332-334 ; defined, 332 ; Greek view of, 456 ; and Fortitude, are subordinate duties, 332 , 333 ; Moral, 333 note 3; Virtue of, 313 , 333 , 334 ; and Foolhardiness, distinguished by Utilitarian considerations, 334 , 355 Courtesy, 253 Cudworth, 103
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

For, indeed, though I have said that technicalities are of secondary importance, still without grasping them, we cannot understand references to the managing and rigging of the canoes.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

And after she had entered the Palace, she was wont time and again to have letters taken out to her father and her cousins, urgently recommending them to be careful with his bringing up, that if they were not strict, he could not possibly become good for anything, and that if they were immoderately severe, there was the danger of something unpropitious befalling him, with the result, moreover, that his grandmother would be stricken with sorrow; and this solicitude on his account was never for an instant lost sight of by her.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The Great Seal was taken from Lord Clarendon in August, 1667; and in the month of November following, after an angry debate, he 32 was impeached by the Commons, in general terms, of high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors; but the Lords, upon the impeachment being carried up, refused to commit him, or to sequester him from parliament, on the ground of the generality of the charge.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

It is not proper to explain myself; but I have means for the Russians' [a Swedish War just coming upon Russia, to keep its hand in use; so diligent have the French been in that quarter!].
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle

The little Frenchwoman came up rapidly to her host and employer—her cheek glowing, her eye shining, her small foot in her stout little winter-shoe sounding lightly yet distinctly on the carpet.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

He counted upon replacing the book before it was missed; but Henry reached home first, and discovered his loss, as related in the preceding chapter.
— from Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Instead of being crushed under ridicule, the new theories secured a hearing, all the wider, indeed, for the startling nature of their defence.]
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Christine, upon receiving the doctor's assurance that her lover was in no danger of death, had begun anew to sob upon his breast, more violently, if possible, than at first.
— from The Yoke of the Thorah by Henry Harland

Refrigerate chicken until ready to serve.
— from The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Mitzi Perdue

We can use radar to extend our sight, but the Space Service hasn't yet developed anything to make spacemen taste or smell better."
— from The Spicy Sound of Success by Jim Harmon

They trace the origin of the name of their place to Lautalatoa of Fiji, whose son, called Utu, resided there.
— from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner

Those reasons are not the Declaration: the real pith of that splendidly written document is the brief statement of “self evident truths”; among them “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
— from The Mentor: The Revolution, Vol. 1, Num. 43, Serial No. 43 The Story of America in Pictures by Albert Bushnell Hart