At the close of the Medea I actually find myself longing for a deus ex machinâ , for some being like Artemis in the Hippolytus or the good Dioscuri of the Electra , to speak a word of explanation or forgiveness, or at least leave some sound of music in our ears to drown that dreadful and insistent clamour of hate.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Considering that he can only have acted from motives of pure charity, his conduct, under the circumstances, shows unusual good feeling and deserves extraordinary praise.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[206] So saying, he rose to his feet and dismissed every one until supper-time.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It is that on each side of the line of operations the country should be cleared of all enemies for a distance equal to the depth of this line: otherwise the enemy might threaten the line of retreat.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

That Compeyson stood in mortal fear of him, neither of the two could know much better than I; and that any such man as that man had been described to be would hesitate to release himself for good from a dreaded enemy by the safe means of becoming an informer was scarcely to be imagined.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Franz and Debray exchanged some words in a whisper, and Morrel, rejoiced at this unexpected incident, went to fetch the count, who was walking in a retired path with Emmanuel.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

[Footnote 1: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung , Bk. II. c. 31, p. 426-7 (4th Edit.), to which the reader is referred for a detailed explanation of my meaning.]
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

This, however, though the most formal and decisive expression of Washington's views, is but one among many others equally distinct.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Dogmatic Intuitionism, in which the general rules of Common Sense are accepted as axiomatic: 100 - 101 4. Philosophical Intuitionism, which attempts to find a deeper explanation for these current rules.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

iv. ), when I come to deal with the method of Universalistic Hedonism: at present I am only concerned with the question how far any deductive Ethics is capable of furnishing practical guidance to an individual seeking his own greatest happiness here and now.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It was in no way his passion that blinded him—he did not put the steam on like that, and never went in for any disturbing emotion—it was simply habit, and forgetfulness that those functionaries were not born mute, deaf, and sightless.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

The inhabitants of these forts absolutely destroyed each other in a family feud, so that nothing now remains.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

So great was the impetus given, that but for a desperate effort to keep his feet, and a bound or two, the lad would have gone down upon his face.
— from Cutlass and Cudgel by George Manville Fenn

By Habit 97 Feeling of Moral Approbation attached to the Exercise of the Affections 100 Happiness arising from a due Exercise of the Affections;—Influence of Temper 106 SECTION III. SELF-LOVE 110 Sense in which the term is employed 111 Tendency of a true and Rational Self-love 111 Morbid Exercise of it,—Selfishness 116 [Pg xii]
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

It was in this same speech that Calhoun hinted at his plan for a dual executive,—one president from the Free and one from the Slave States,—a childish proposition, that Benton properly treated as a simple absurdity.
— from Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

Jean-Francois gazed steadily at the ceiling with a fixed and despairing eye, a burning eye, as if reddened by the terrible thoughts behind it.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Then I asked all my painter and sculptor friends, and during eight days all sorts of old and infirm women came for my inspection.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

But it is no easy matter to avoid this danger, when the facts, with which we have to deal, are known to every one by personal, familiar, and daily experience.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat

[255] Their great collection of laws, called the Institutes of Menu , is certainly less than 3,000 years old; but the Indian chronologists, so far from being satisfied with this, ascribe to them an age that the sober European mind finds a difficulty even in conceiving.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle