And this it is the more essential to examine, as people are in general willing enough to allow, that objectively the dictates of justice coincide with a part of the field of General Expediency; but inasmuch as the subjective mental feeling of Justice is different from that which commonly attaches to simple expediency, and, except in extreme cases of the latter, is far more imperative in its demands, people find it difficult to see, in Justice, only a particular kind or branch of general utility, and think that its superior binding force requires a totally different origin.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Now as there are three states in each case, two faulty either in the way of excess or defect, and one right, which is the mean state, of course
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

‘I’m coming to plead off nothing about it,’ I exclaimed, considerably irritated.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

In every creed there are two elements—the Divine substance and the human form.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In every close onset, or single combat, the despair of the Fatimites was invincible; but the surrounding multitudes galled them from a distance with a cloud of arrows, and the horses and men were successively slain; a truce was allowed on both sides for the hour of prayer; and the battle at length expired by the death of the last companions of Hosein.
— 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

These are the measures of the monolith house outside; but the length inside is eighteen cubits and five-sixths of a cubit, 149 the breadth twelve cubits, and the height five cubits.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In either case, the EXECUTION of the business, which alone requires the knowledge of local details, must be devolved upon discreet persons in the character of commissioners or assessors, elected by the people or appointed by the government for the purpose.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Therefore in every case a compensating gear is fitted, to allow the wheels to turn at different speeds, while permitting them both to drive.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

They did not, however, neglect the art treasures of Florence; and at Rome, their next stopping-place, they sauntered about with Baedeker's predecessor, "Mrs. Starke," and peered into earthly churches and flower-illumined ruins.
— from The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

Your reputation as a gentleman and officer is effectually cleared of neglect of duty, and accession to the mutiny in Gardiner's regiment.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

I have observed that in making in the ears of a dog a longitudinal section, and afterwards uniting the wound by a suture, the skin, at the end of a few days, is entirely closed; but it is only at the expiration of a much longer time, that the union of the cartilage takes place below, as we can see by examining the parts after the union of the integuments.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

When we say that Nature is unjust, we are in effect complaining of her indifference to our own little virtues, our own little intentions, our own little deeds of heroism; and it is our vanity, far more than our sense of equity, that considers itself aggrieved.
— from The Buried Temple by Maurice Maeterlinck

The ANSI Image Technology Standards Board requested that such a database be established, as did the ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Task Force on Imagery.
— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

The stern page on which the legislator has printed his imperative text is always provided with an ample margin where the administrator, charged with its execution, can write down the decisions that he is free to make.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

It will be understood from the foregoing chapter that in every case where the original to be reproduced is of such a nature that before a print in ink can be made the image must be broken up, the reproduction will have to be effected by means of the half-tone process.
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

To creep about the house into dangerous and forbidden places, at the risk of life and limb, was our hero’s chief delight in early childhood.
— from Sunk at Sea by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne