LIFE, ETC J W Blakesley, 1839, A Crichton (Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library), 1843, JS Blackie, Four Phases of Morals, Socrates, Aristotle, etc, 1871, G Grote, Aristotle, edited by A Bain and G C Robertson, 1872, 1880, E Wallace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880, A Grant (Ancient Classics for English readers), 1877, T Davidson, Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals (Great Educators), 1892, F Sewall, Swedenborg and Aristotle, 1895, W A Heidel, The Necessary and the Contingent of the Aristotelian System (University of Chicago Contributions to Philosophy), 1896, F W Bain, On the Realisation of the Possible, and the Spirit of Aristotle, 1899, J H Hyslop, The Ethics of the Greek Philosophers, etc (Evolution of Ethics), 1903, M V Williams, Six Essays on the Platonic Theory of Knowledge as expounded in the later dialogues and reviewed by Aristotle, 1908, J M Watson, Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato, 1909 A E Taylor, Aristotle, 1919, W D Ross, Aristotle, 1923.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It was about this time that my lord marshal spoke to me of his, of what he intended to do in it for me, and that I made him the answer of which I have spoken in the first part of my memoirs.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The fact is that those who write the histories of particular episodes, 514 having undertaken limited and narrow themes, appear to me to be compelled from poverty of matter to exaggerate insignificant incidents, and to speak at inordinate length on subjects that scarcely deserve to be recorded at all.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

If this be so, it is obviously inexact to define pleasure, for purposes of measurement , as the kind of feeling that we seek to retain in consciousness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Faster and faster grew her movements, until, with a cry of delight, a firm pressure of my hand against her affair, and still firmer pressure on my thumb, she suddenly ceased all movement, her hands relaxed their hold of my head, the stiffness left her clitoris, and beyond convulsive graspings of the interior of her affair upon my thumb, she lay for some time inanimate.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

anbidstōw (on-) f. place of meeting , LL.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Plural of nouns, 34 ff.; irregular, 35 ff.; of compounds, 36 ; of foreign nouns, 37 ; of proper names and titles, 35 , 38 ; of possessive, 43 f.; of pronouns, 56 f., 60 , 62 ff.; of relatives, 67 f.; of verbs, 97 ff.; plural of majesty, 57 .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He would seem to have made notes at different times from 1891 to 1893, during which period, after the first performance of Mlada , he gave up composition for a while.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

I would fain put off my last woman's-fault, I 'd not be tedious to you.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

It was with the utmost difficulty I could crawl along at all, and very frequently my limbs sank suddenly from beneath me; when, falling prostrate on my face, I would remain for some minutes in a state bordering on insensibility.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I speak of the time of life when we first put on manhood, and meet all its sorrows at the moment when we expect nothing but its joys.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"Who are they that have sent thee to ask a free passage of me?" he asked the messenger.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English by Charles Morris

The argument violates the very first principle of mental philosophy, in that it applies the fixed relations of space, weight, and time to the operations of the mind.
— from If Not Silver, What? by John W. (John Wesley) Bookwalter

What led me into this philosophical vein of analytical thought was a touching poem of the home affections, which was sent to me for perusal on Monday by one of the intellectual Young Women of America.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

On the walls were scrolls with funny pictures of men running all over each other, like flies on a cake, Nelly thought.
— from The Little Girl Lost A Tale for Little Girls by Eleanor Raper

Passing into another street, he saw several hand-bills stuck up on the walls of houses; stepping up to one, he read as follows: “Lost, between the hours of nine and ten last evening, in the Rue de Loir , a small silk purse, containing a few pieces of money, and a lady’s miniature.
— from Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale by I. (Isaac) Mitchell

Truly, I find but little encouragement in my tremendous efforts to get well, in the marked neglect which I am suffering from the feminine portion of my family.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

When Kant (as before remarked) propounds as the fundamental principle of morals, 'So act, that thy rule of conduct might be adopted as a law by all rational beings,' he virtually acknowledges that the interest of mankind collectively, or at least of mankind indiscriminately, must be in the mind of the agent when conscientiously deciding on the morality of the act.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

on the other hand, bright skies and a most alluring and tempting prospect eagerly awaiting its transferment to Rio de Janeiro, after long hesitation and endless Conclaves, the Sacred College of Cardinals, (the Pope concurring,) gave its official sanction in 1945 to the removal of the Papal See to the Western Hemisphere, under the ægis of the great American Constitution, the noblest document ever written by the fallible pen of man, a charter which protects and defends all who are worthy and they who seek its sheltering folds.
— from Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 by Arthur Bird

Nevertheless, they kindled up the whole range of edifices, threw a glow over the windows, glistened on the wet roofs, and, slowly withdrawing upward, perched upon the chimney-tops; thence they took a higher flight, and lingered an instant on the tip of the spire, making it the final point of more cheerful light in the whole sombre scene.
— from The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne