[76] concluded just the other way, thus: since certain actions bring depression ("consciousness of guilt") in their train, there must, then, exist responsibility, for there would be no basis for this depression at hand if all man's affairs did not follow their course of necessity—as they do, indeed, according to the opinion of this philosopher, follow their course—but man himself, subject to the same necessity, would be just the man that he is—which Schopenhauer denies.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The book converted no one in its time, and is not apt to do harm at this late date; but it will make the English-reading reader understand some of the novelty, the revolutionary freshness, the bold unorthodoxy which made millions of people turn to Hitlerism as an escape from the humdrum heartbreak of Weimar Germany.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

] MASSON (Publicola), born in 1795, the best known chiropodist in Paris, a radical Republican of the Marat type, even resembled the latter physically; counted Leon de Lora among his customers.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

V It took Clifford a month to entirely recover, although at the end of the first week he was pronounced convalescent by Elliott, who was an authority, and his convalescence was aided by the cordiality with which Rue Barrée acknowledged his solemn salutes.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

S. Περίσσευμα, ατος, τό, more than enough, residue over and above, Mar. 8.8; abundance, exuberance, Mat. 12.34.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Chamfort[1] makes the excellent remark that society — les cercles, les salons, ce qu'on appelle le monde —is like a miserable play, or a bad opera, without any interest in itself, but supported for a time by mechanical aid, costumes and scenery.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Armed with this watchword, the actor managed to establish relations with Philetus, a slave of dubious character, who had nominally joined the Christians because he found among them a sympathy and a kindness which he had forfeited in his gentile surroundings.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Fandor turned once more to Elizabeth, resuming his authoritative tone and manner: "Since the affair of the Dépôt, the legal authorities have recognised indelible traces of Jacques Dollon's hand in the series of crimes which have been recently perpetrated.
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

They felt that this strange manner, this extraordinary revelation of character, this pouring out of one's best, was attractive to the ladies, and that they, getting in a word incidentally and without being able to complete a thought, or round off a period, were wholly cast into the shade.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

In the case of Mr. Smith's "negro boy Mike," I had the satisfaction of finding in the intercepted correspondence of his son the major, the express recognition of the man's right to liberty by reason of his use in the enemy's service, and could not deny myself the pleasure of calling attention to it in my letters to headquarters.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

Now that the schoolmaster's attention had been so drawn to my absence, I felt more than ever reluctant to enter.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

Page 151 "But he knows?" said Mrs. Thornton eagerly, reaching for Helena's hand.
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

I am half sorry you have any thing more to do with them, and more than ever regret you did not stand for Westminster with Charles, instead of Lord John;—in that case you would have come in now, and we should not have been persecuted by this Horne Tooke.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

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— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various