[25] The question, then, is whether the account just given of the influence of the intellect on desire and volition is not exhaustive; and whether the experience which is commonly described as a “conflict of desire with reason” is not more properly conceived as merely a conflict among desires and aversions; the sole function of reason being to bring before the mind ideas of actual or possible facts, which modify in the manner above described the resultant force of our various impulses.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“I am sorry to hear it is natural,” returned Sophia; “for I want neither reading nor experience to convince me that it is very dishonourable and very ill-natured: nay, it is surely as ill-bred to tell a husband or wife of the faults of each other as to tell them of their own.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Herr Pick, who danced at Vienna, is now dancing here.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(Spring, fall, summer, winter, with times of arrival and departure and variations in numbers.)
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Thereafter should the warned ones prove incapable or unsuccessful or vicious, they could not become a charge upon the town, but could be returned whence they came with despatch and violence if necessary.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

There is no doubt that many of the hapless prisoners died of diseases contracted in the insanitary dungeons of Seville and Triana, for Olmedus, one of the sufferers, describes the dens as vile in 'nastiness and stench.'
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

[180] “This,” Doris told herself, rubbing a hand across her eyes, as if to dispel a vision, “is not reality.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

He spoke, too, of those powerful barons who were still enduring banishment as accessories to the destruction of the hapless Rizzio, whose overweening pride and Italian birth had been his only crime; barons, noble in descent and venerated in name—the kinsmen of those he addressed; the veteran Kerr, whose ponderous ghisarma had done his country such service at Pinkiecleugh; Patrick Lord Ruthven, then lying ill of a deadly sickness in an English frontier village;
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

He sought him vainly for many days and visited in Naples the consignees who thought that the captain had returned to his country some time ago.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The professor, however, says that he awoke, told his wife the dream, and verified it next day.
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

The basis of the American state or constitution, the real, unwritten, providential constitution, we mean, is what are called the natural and inalienable rights of man; and we know no American citizen who does not hold that these rights are prior to civil society, above it, and held independently of it; or that does not maintain that the great end for which civil society is instituted is to protect, defend, and vindicate, if need be, with its whole physical force, these sacred and inviolable rights for each and every citizen, however high, however low.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various