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Moral in narrower sense and Prudential
, 102-103 , 493-494 ; Sentiment, 26-28 , 77 ; Sentiments, ( a ) difficulties of admitting or rejecting them as motives, 365-367 [523] , ( b ) theory of their derivation from experiences of pleasure and pain, 461 , 462 ; and Quasi-moral Sentiments, 28 , 173 , 174 ; Motive, 77 , 204 seq. , 223 ; Motive, varying forms of:—( a ) Reverence for Authority, ( b ) Religious Sentiment, ( c ) Self-respect, ( d ) sentiment of Freedom, ( e ) Admiration or Aspiration, 39-40 ; instincts and crude Utilitarian reasonings—discrepancy between, 466 , 467 ; Intuitions, 211-216 passim ; Intuitions, existence of, 211 , 212 , 337 ; Intuitions, connexion between ( a ) Existence and Origin of, 211 , 212 , ( b ) Origin and Validity of, 34 note 1, 212-213 , 212 note 2, 214 ; Intuitions, Particular and General, 99-102 , 214-216 ; Rules, imperative and indicative forms of, 101 note 1; Rules and Axioms, importance of, 229 ; Axioms, abstract but significant, 379-384 , 505 ; Axioms, Kant’s view of, 385-386 , 386 notes 1 and 2; Maxims, 337-361 passim ; Maxims which are , and which are not , directly self-evident, distinction between, 383 ; Responsibility, 59-60 ; Obligation, 217 ; and non-moral excellence distinguished, 426 , 427 ‘Moral’ (in narrower sense) and ‘Prudential’ distinguished, 25-26 Moral Courage, 333 note 3 Moral Philosophy, some problems of modern, 374 Morality—‘inductive’ and ‘intuitive,’ double ambiguity of antithesis between, 97-99 ; a priori and a posteriori (or inductive and intuitive), 97 ; and growth of Sympathy, 455-456 , 455 note 1 Morality of Common Sense (Intuitionism), 85 , 102 , 229 , 263 Note, 337-361 passim ; and Positive Morality, 215 ; and Egoism, 498-499 (cf. Happiness and Duty ); development of, not perfectly Utilitarian, 455-456 ; axiomatic character of its maxims questioned, 338 , 342 , 343 ; furnishes valuable practical rules but not ultimate axioms, 360 , 361 ; and Utilitarianism, 361 note 1, 423-457 passim , 461 , 498 , 499 ; first principles of, as “middle axioms” of Utilitarianism, 461 ; Mill’s view of, 461 note 1; not to be accepted by Utilitarianism without modification, 461 seq.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

made into narrow strips and put
She then cut one of the leaves which she had made into narrow strips, and put these strips between the true leaves at the back, where they were folded, in such a manner, that, when she sewed the book, the false leaves would be sewed in with the true.
— from Rollo's Museum by Jacob Abbott

must I name such a place
Your Lordship and I, with or without definition, do a little know Justice, I will hope; if we don't both know it and do it, we are hourly travelling down towards—Heavens, must I name such a place!
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

margin is nearly straight and parallel
Tergum , extraordinarily narrow and elongated; beak triangular, purple: a longitudinal furrow runs down the valve: spur narrow, long, bluntly pointed, lying close to the basi-scutal angle of the valve: the scutal margin is nearly straight and parallel to the spur.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

materials is not sufficiently and practically
It is the misfortune of art that this great power of the mind over materials is not sufficiently and practically admitted.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

me I never saw at Paris
It may be that memory paints these scenes brighter than they were; but, if that does not deceive me, I never saw at Paris or 201 Vienna so gay and beautiful a scene, so rich in landscape and scenery, in variety of costume, and in beauty of female form and feature.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

meat into neat slices and put
Mode .—Cut the meat into neat slices, and put the bones and trimmings into a stewpan with the above proportion of liquor that the head was boiled in.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Morality is not something a poet
Morality is not something a poet can put into his work deliberately; but it can be left out only at the poet's peril, since few works of art are likely to be worth while if they are ethically empty.
— from Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

mistake in not securing a pardon
It is said in Mr. Cayley's Life of Raleigh that his fatal mistake in not securing a pardon under the great seal was on account of the expense.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

mysilf I nivir said a prayer
I don't know for others, Thady, but for mysilf, I nivir said a prayer in all my life more from the heart; and a good right I had, shure, and iviry one that was there, too; for, to say nothin' o' the dinner, is there the likes uv her in the whole side
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley


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