Again, when Christians speak—as they commonly do—of the ‘justice’ (or other moral attributes) of God, as exhibited in punishing sinners and rewarding the righteous, they obviously imply not merely that God will thus punish and reward, but that it is ‘right’
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In late January to early February of 2000, the library installed privacy screens and recessed terminals in an effort to restrict the display of sexually explicit Web sites at the library.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The Stoics, however, place knowledge in physical sensation, and reality, therefore, in what is known by the senses, matter.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

There is such a response to her pecking on the ground; there is probably such a response to her danger-note; and there may be many other such instinctive modes of behaviour related to her actions.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

Had I perhaps said anything rude to her from the beginning?
— from Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Just before reaching any town, they drew themselves up into a line, and thus walked through its streets in procession, singing and ringing their little hand-bells, with a player on the bagpipes at their head.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

Faith in the power of prayer—and only where a power, an objective power, is ascribed to it, is prayer still a religious truth—is identical with faith in miraculous power; and faith in miracles is identical with the essence of faith in general.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

This is a thought which is particularly soothing as regards the loss of friends, or of especially gifted men who seem, in their day, the earthly support of the Church….
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney