as claims may conflict; but clearly binding rules cannot be obtained from Common Sense in a definite form; 246 - 247 4. nor clear principles from which rules may be deduced; as is seen when we examine the duties to Kinsmen, as commonly conceived: 247 - 250 [xxx] 5. and the wider duties of Neighbourhood, Citizenship, Universal Benevolence; and the duties of cultivating Reverence and Loyalty: 250 - 254 6. and those springing from the Conjugal relation: 254 - 256 7. and those of Friendship: 256 - 259 8. and those of Gratitude: and those to which we are prompted by Pity. 259 - 263 Note 263 CHAPTER V JUSTICE 1.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

It is usual and right that the law, when a contract is entered into, should require as the condition of its enforcing performance, that certain formalities should be observed, such as signatures, attestation of witnesses, and the like, in order that in case of subsequent dispute, there may be [Pg 184] evidence to prove that the contract was really entered into, and that there was nothing in the circumstances to render it legally invalid: the effect being, to throw great obstacles in the way of fictitious contracts, or contracts made in circumstances which, if known, would destroy their validity.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION PART 2 TWENTY-FOUR GOSSIP TWENTY-FIVE THE FIRST WEDDING TWENTY-SIX ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS TWENTY-SEVEN LITERARY LESSONS TWENTY-EIGHT DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES TWENTY-NINE CALLS THIRTY CONSEQUENCES THIRTY-ONE OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT THIRTY-TWO TENDER TROUBLES THIRTY-THREE JO'S JOURNAL THIRTY-FOUR FRIEND THIRTY-FIVE HEARTACHE THIRTY-SIX BETH'S SECRET THIRTY-SEVEN NEW IMPRESSIONS THIRTY-EIGHT ON THE SHELF THIRTY-NINE LAZY LAURENCE FORTY THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW FORTY-ONE LEARNING TO FORGET FORTY-TWO ALL ALONE FORTY-THREE SURPRISES FORTY-FOUR MY LORD AND LADY FORTY-FIVE DAISY AND DEMI FORTY-SIX UNDER THE UMBRELLA FORTY-SEVEN HARVEST TIME CHAPTER ONE PLAYING PILGRIMS
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Satan says— I symbolise the wild and deep And unregenerated wastes of life, Dark with transmitted tendencies of race And blind mischance; all crude mistakes of will And tendency unbalanced by due weight Of favouring circumstance; all passion blown
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

" Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood; who, having been detached with a squadron, when the disappearance of the combined fleets, and of Nelson in their pursuit, was known in England, had taken his station off Cadiz.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Like other faulty characters in Shakespeare's tragedies, she dies a better woman than she had lived.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Origin of Modern Ceremonial.--Uncertainty of French Ceremonial up to the End of the Sixteenth Century.--Consecration of the Kings of France.--Coronation of the Emperors of Germany.--Consecration of the Doges of Venice.--Marriage of the Doge with the Sea.--State Entries of Sovereigns.--An Account of the Entry of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris.--Seats of Justice.--Visits of Ceremony between Persons of rank.--Mourning.--Social Courtesies.--Popular Demonstrations and National Commemorations.--New Year's Day.--Local Festivals.-- Vins d'Honneur.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

A cake of flour containing two pice (farthings) is buried or burnt with the corpse.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

[312] Pascasius Justus mentions in his Alca, first published in 1560, that a certain merchant, having obtained from Charles V a monopoly for ten years of the sale of cards in Spain, became extremely rich in consequence of the great demand for them.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

If spillage is only about one-half to one inch down on the plates of three or four cells, this spillage may be replaced by drawing a little electrolyte out of each cell of the other full cells in the set.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

You have its outward form clearly in your memory; the shores, the rapids, the islands, the curve of the Falls, and the stout rainbow with one end resting on their top and the other lost in the mists that rise from the gulf beneath.
— from Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells

In the course of history the number of fundamental clans has varied; the number of the fundamental regions of space has varied with them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Early the following morning Elder Taylor started in company with the Prophet and others for Carthage.
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave-trade; some for a Congressional Slave-code for the Territories; some for Congress forbidding the Territories to prohibit slavery within their limits; some for maintaining slavery in the Territories through the judiciary; some for the "gur-reat pur-rinciple" that, "if one man would enslave another, no third man should object," fantastically called "popular sovereignty;" but never a man among you in favor of Federal prohibition of slavery in Federal Territories, according to the practice of our fathers, who framed the government under which we live.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

It must have occurred just off the Highlands below the Sandy Hook, for the next morning when Barnaby True came upon deck it was to find the sun shining brightly and the brigantine riding upon an even keel, at anchor off Staten Island, three or four cable-lengths distance from a small village on the shore, and the town of New York in plain sight across the water.
— from Stolen Treasure by Howard Pyle