Here, then, it is declared, as explicitly as anything can be, that moral obligation rests solely and entirely on presupposed reciprocity ; consequently it is utterly selfish, and only admits of being interpreted by egoism, which, under the condition of reciprocity , knows how to make a compromise cleverly enough.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Cossus wins the Spolia Opima , 437 B.C. Erat tum inter equites tribunus militum A. Cornelius Cossus, eximia pulchritudine corporis, animo ac viribus par memorque generis, quod amplissimum acceptum maius auctiusque reliquit posteris.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Principles must be built on conceptions; on any other basis there can only be paroxysms, which can give the person no moral worth, nay, not even confidence in himself, without which the highest good in man, consciousness of the morality of his mind and character, cannot exist.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

"I do not want to know anything about her—she has done nothing but make mischief and cause contention ever since I heard her name.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

[‘ liss ’; līðe] līssian to subdue , Sol 294. list mf. art, cleverness, cunning, experience, skill, craft , Cr .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Chia Cheng after this, at length, was slightly composed in mind, and cheerful at heart; and having further invited dowager lady Chia and other inmates to go into the garden, he deliberated with them on, and made arrangements for, every detail in such a befitting manner that not the least trifle remained for which suitable provision had not been made; and Chia Cheng eventually mustered courage to indite a memorial, and on the very day on which the memorial was presented, a decree was received fixing upon the fifteenth day of the first moon of the ensuing year, the very day of the Shang Yuan festival, for the honourable consorts to visit their homes.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The porters maintained a constant crying "eeya-oy," "eeya-oy," in order to keep step with each other and render the swinging of the palanquin less unendurable.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The man and child confronted each other.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He sends me a Christmas card every year.
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Mere country gentlemen sometimes maintained a considerable chapel establishment.
— from Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts

His principal works are La Morale d’Epicure (the morality of Epicurus), in relation to present day doctrines, 1878, La Morale Anglaise Contemporaine (Contemporary English Ethics), ’79, crowned by the Academy of Moral Sciences.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

It was built by an ingenious mechanic, named Maidman, a common carpenter employed in the gardens, from a design of his own.
— from Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 1 by Joseph Grego

Mr. Theodore Thomas was still its musical director, and Mr. Gustav Hinrichs and Arthur Mees assistant conductors; Charles E. Locke was the business manager.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

In the second of the following papers, "The Roots of the Great War," I have drawn attention to the influence of the military and commercial classes, especially in Germany, and the way in which their policy, coming into conflict with a similar policy in the other Western nations, has inevitably led to the present embroilment.
— from The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter