Superintendent Randall, of the city schools of New York, over-hearing the conversation, said: "Father Hazeltine, I fully agree with the first part of your remark but dissent entirely from the latter.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
But these supplementary explanations do not affect the theory of life on which this theory of morality is grounded—namely, that pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
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— from Paradise Lost by John Milton
It is, indeed, accented, but in a way which differs entirely from the regular Vedic method.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
The captain answered, that this supposition must have been deduced either from their conversation or their compositions, of which the English could not possibly judge with precision, as they did not understand the dialect used by the Scots in common discourse, as well as in their works of humour.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Knowledge of human nature might be drawn even from that apostrophe, and a very fine shade of human feeling is surely expressed in it, as Shakespeare utters it; but to pray or to converse is not for that reason the same thing as to pursue science.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
A daily afternoon launch trip across Two Medicine Lake brings the visitor to the foot of Sinopah, from which there is a short, delightful path through dense evergreen forest to the foot of Twin Falls.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
He withdrew his dying eyes from the old man, and fixed them on the woman and the child.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is impossible, and fortunately unnecessary, for the practical forester to know them all, and exceedingly difficult even for the specialist.”
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson
The fact that India's endeavours at capital building [134] at Delhi may not yet have met with corresponding success, does not affect the matter, since the conditions in a bureaucracy differ essentially from those obtaining in the democratic association of self-determining Dominions.
— from Down Under with the Prince by Everard Cotes
"Notwithstanding my resolution, yet for want of other victuals, I did eat flesh this Lent, but am resolved to eat as little as I can.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam
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— from The Sixty-First Second by Owen Johnson
She interrupted him with a gentle and melancholy smile, which gave her countenance a very different expression from that the Americans had hitherto remarked; "I have been following you for the last two days to come to your help; the Redskins are preparing to attack you—" The two men shuddered: and, forgetting all else to think only of the pressing danger, they cast a restless glance around them.
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard
Street-sellers of Milk in the Markets, Parks, &c. The vendors in the markets clear about 1 s. 6 d. a day each, for three months; and as the profit is rather more than cent.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew
Those busiest of all British Columbian explorers, the "prospectors," have found much of this system too difficult even for their pertinacity.
— from On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
They crossed the Forth and landed at Queen's Ferry, which bore its name from another queen when she was going on a very different errand; for there it is said the fugitive Margaret, the sister of the Atheling, after she had been wrecked in Scotland Water, landed and took her way on foot to Dunfermline to ask grace of Malcolm Cean Mohr, who made her his wife.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler
"He's done enough for them yellow pups over in Ascalon, to be yelped at and cussed for savin' their dirty hides."
— from Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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