Doctor Mell (of Colonial Salem-House Grammar School, Port Middlebay) presided, and on his right sat the distinguished guest.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

We may observe further that the perplexity which we seemed to find in the Morality of Common Sense, as to the relation of moral excellence to moral effort, is satisfactorily explained and removed when we adopt a Utilitarian point of view: for on the one hand it is easy to see how certain acts—such as kind services—are likely to be more felicific when performed without effort, and from other motives than regard for duty: while on the other hand a person who in doing similar acts achieves a triumph of duty over strong seductive inclinations, exhibits thereby a character which we recognise as felicific in a more general way, as tending to a general performance of duty in all departments.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[“Whether the Balance or dread Scorpio, more potent over my natal hour, aspects me, or Capricorn, supreme over the Hesperian sea.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If the supposed evil necessarily followed a breach of taboo, the taboo would not be a taboo but a precept of morality or common sense.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Intuitionism , Intuitive Morality , Positive Morality , Morality of Common Sense ); Dogmatic, fundamental assumption of, 101 , 200 , 201 ; three phases of, 102 , 103 ; a variety of, constituted by substituting for ‘right’ the notion ‘good,’ 105-107 ; Æsthetic, 228 , 392 ; Jural or Rational, 228-229 ‘ Intuitive’ or ‘ a priori ’ Morality generally used to mean Dogmatic Intuitionism or Morality of Common Sense, 101-102 Irrational choice—sometimes conscious and deliberate, 36 , 37-38 , 41-42 , 58 , 59 , 110 ; Socratic and Aristotelian view compared with modern view of, 59 note 1 Jural method of Ethics, 100-101 Just claims—arising from contract, 269 ; arising from natural and normal expectations, 269 , 270 , 270 note 1 ‘Justice,’ ‘justify,’ etc., uses of, 264 note 2, 270 , 286 , 442 [522] Justice, 20 , 99 , 264-294 passim , 349-352 , 355 , 440-448 passim ; or Equity, essence of, 496 ; specially difficult to define, 264 ; intuitional view of the definition of, 264 ; involves notion of distribution, 265 , 266 , 268 , 271 ; and Law, connexion between, 265 , 266 , 267 note 1; distinct from Order (or Law-observance), 265 ; and Equality, 266 , 267 , 267 note 1, 268 , 268 note 1, 279 , 285 note 1; and taxation, 266 , 266 note 1; Conservative and Ideal, 272-273 , 273 note 1, 274 , 293 , 294 ; Ideal, 273 , 274 , 293 , 294 , 444 , 445 ; Ideal, and Natural Eights, 274 , 275 ; Ideal, and Freedom, 278 , 279 ; Corrective, 281 ; Reparative, 281 , 282 , 281 note 1, 282 note 1, 293 ; Reparative and Retributive, distinguished, 282-283 , 282 note 2; and Free Will, 71 , 72 , 284 , 285 ; and ‘Equity’ or ‘Fairness,’ 285 , 286 ; Hume’s treatment of, 440 Kant, 6 , 7 , 11 note 1, 36 , 58 , 58 note 1, 209 , 210 , 210 note 1, 222 , 223 , 239 , 240 , 315 , 327 note 1, 366 , 385 , 386 , 386 note 1, 389-390 Note, 486 , Appendix 510 ; ( Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten )
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Feathery-white masses of cloud stood overhead; patches of bright blue sky peeped out between them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In return for this Dareios offered to give him whatsoever thing he should desire; and Gillos chose that he might have the power of returning to Taras, narrating first the story of his misfortune: and in order that he might not disturb all Hellas, as would be the case if on his account a great armament should sail to invade Italy, he said it was enough for him that the men of Cnidos should be those who brought him back, without any others; because he supposed that by these, who were friends with the Tarentines, his return from exile would most easily be effected.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The relatively undisturbed region on the right shows the shoulder-to-shoulder large impact craters typical of most of Callisto’s surface.
— from Voyager Encounters Jupiter by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

On his way back to Marborough Paul had a carriage all to himself, and he had both time and solitude to consider what use he should make of Catinka's statement.
— from The Rainbow Feather by Fergus Hume

It was scarcely more than fifteen miles to the claims which had been the site, some years before, of a thriving mining camp, but was now a deserted town of tumble-down shanties, corrugated iron shacks, and the rustied skeletons of machinery at the mouths of certain shafts.
— from Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; Or, Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson

The best water in Paris—that of the springs on the north—contains nine times as much of calcareous salts as the water of the Seine; but it is justly preferred for drinking purposes.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

When you owe your aunt a thousand dollars, you shall not fool away your money on champagne suppers.
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic

"Why mammy, of course," said Susy, as if the question was too utterly foolish for serious consideration.
— from Princess Sarah, and Other Stories by John Strange Winter

[397] Isabella Colvile married, March 3, 1834, Mr. Marindin of Chesterton, Shropshire.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

[604] “The invalid queen, in her moments of convalescence, soothed her cares and miseries at the embroidery frame.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess