He has omitted to deal with the essential part of the question, apparently thinking that he was asked to establish some fundamental principle of Ethics.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

But he forgot that he was depriving himself of his only support, the affection of the people; whilst he furnished the malice of his enemies with the arms of truth, and afforded the emperor the fairest pretence of exacting the forfeit of his purple, and of his life.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

For people of every description, and from every region, bring things (including all the costly wares of India, as well as the fine and precious goods of Cathay itself with its provinces), some for the sovereign, some for the court, some for the city which is so great, some for the crowds of Barons and Knights, some for the great hosts of the Emperor which are quartered round about; and thus between court and city the quantity brought in is endless.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

If, therefore, the term Freedom had not already been appropriated by moralists to another meaning—if it were merely a question of taking it from ordinary discourse and stamping it with greater precision for purposes of ethical discussion—I should make no objection to the statement that “a man is a free agent in proportion as he acts rationally.”
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Through this opening, the saphena vein, O, Pl. 29, enters the femoral vein, I. From the foregoing remarks it will appear that no such aperture as that which is named "saphenous," and described as being shaped in the manner of L h , Pl. 28, with its "upper and lower cornua," and its "falciform process," or edge, h , exists naturally.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Indeed, in my first piece of Ethnographic research on the South coast, it was not until I was alone in the district that I began to make some headway; and, at any rate, I found out where lay the secret of effective field-work.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Though, as I said, the executive and federative power of every community be really distinct in themselves, yet they are hardly to be separated, and placed at the same time, in the hands of distinct persons: for both of them requiring the force of the society for their exercise, it is almost impracticable to place the force of the commonwealth in distinct, and not subordinate hands; or that the executive and federative power should be placed in persons, that might act separately, whereby the force of the public would be under different commands: which would be apt some time or other to cause disorder and ruin. CHAPTER.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

We have now seen that there are propositions known a priori , and that among them are the propositions of logic and pure mathematics, as well as the fundamental propositions of ethics.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

But it is incorrect when it either begins with a false premiss, or ends with a consequence which does not follow properly; as for instance, “Since it is night, Dion is walking,” for this may be said in the day-time.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Quae modo decerpens tenero pueriliter ungui 40 Proposito florem praetulit officio, Ex modo formosis incumbens nescius undis Errorem blandis tardat imaginibus.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Who can say how much it had to do in stopping the further progress of Early's attack?
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

Time, however, did away the advantages resulting from priority of establishment.
— from An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair

She has capabilities and knowledge, and has learnt to value them, and is right in so doing, but she has not learnt the next page of Life's Lesson Book, which is, the relative insignificance of her own acquirements, and the value of the qualities she has not got,—qualities which her husband very likely possesses, only he has not the feminine power of expression.
— from Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

Often there already exists, even in a small town, some literary club or other society organized for purposes of education or culture.
— from The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Various

For purposes of exoteric or phallic worship, and also cosmically, they were the Kabiri, whose attributes and dual capacities were denoted by the names of the temples to which they respectively belonged, and also by those of their priests.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

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— from Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis

They were beginning to work in all sorts of qualities, with the manipulations and finish of which they were becoming now thoroughly conversant, and a demand springing up for goods for purposes of exportation, encouragement was given to the trade, which soon assumed the position of a thriving industry.
— from The Silversmith's Handbook Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver by George E. (George Edward) Gee

Once while they were at Medmenham someone let a huge ape down the chimney, when the revellers, worked up to a frantic pitch of excitement and more than half drunk, thought that his Satanic majesty had paid them a visit in good earnest.
— from The Thames by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton