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

His rebus confectis Caesar, ut reliquum tempus a labore intermitteretur, milites in proxima municipia deducit; ipse ad urbem proficiscitur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

By every civilized and peaceful method we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly to those great words which the sons of the Fathers would fain forget: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

They were religiously set down just as they came, in no order except chronological, but later they were grouped, enlarged or pruned, illustrated, worked into a lecture or discourse, and, after having in this capacity undergone repeated testing and rearranging, were finally carefully sifted and more rigidly pruned, and were printed as essays."
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Agg′regate, a term applied in geology to rocks composed of several different mineral constituents capable of being separated by mechanical means, as granite, where the quartz, felspar, and mica can be separated mechanically.—In botany it is applied to flowers composed of many small florets having a common undivided receptacle, the anthers being distinct and separate, the florets commonly standing on stalks, and each having a partial calyx.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I’d rather be a complete scoundrel … that is no … not a scoundrel at all, but on the contrary completely unhappy rather than a scoundrel.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I told him gently of our grievances, Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus, By new-forswearing that he is forsworn: He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge With haughty arms this hateful name in us.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Even the blacks, the half-castes, and the Indians, came to stare at us with stupid wonder, calling us rebels, traitors, and robbers.
— from Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by William Henry Giles Kingston

He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge with haughty arms this hateful name in us.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

When a boat was seen coming up river, the alarm was given, and we little shavers of the neighborhood raced for the nearest point of view, a high bank of blue clay, rising probably seventy-five feet above the river.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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; and whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

On the Sunday following the festival of Saint Martin (11th November), the council and citizens unanimously resolved that a public disputation should take place at the beginning of the succeeding year.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Ronleigh had no recognized duelling-ground, but when a premeditated encounter did take place, the combatants usually resorted to a little patch of grass situated between the back of the pavilion and the edge of the adjoining field.
— from The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs by Harold Avery

These are found, first, in the Declaration of Independence, by which it is solemnly announced “that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Had there been little to do, time could not have dragged with such wonderful seascapes and cloudscapes—dawns that were like burning imperial cities under rainbows that arched nearly to the zenith; sunsets that bathed the purple sea in rivers of rose-coloured light, flowing from a sun whose diverging, heaven-climbing rays were of the purest blue.
— from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London

"Well, den," continued Uncle Remus, taking a long breath, "de ve'y same kinder doin's tuck'n happen.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

We have the National Constitution from the Preamble to the signature of George Washington, and then we have the recent Amendments, all to be interpreted by the National Declaration, which proclaims, as with trumpet:— “We hold these truths to be self-evident: 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.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner