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of morals are

According to the one opinion, the principles of morals are evident à priori , requiring nothing to command assent, except that the meaning of the terms be understood.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

of Maxentius amounted

Even Sicily furnished its proportion of troops; and the armies of Maxentius amounted to one hundred and seventy thousand foot and eighteen thousand horse.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of Ministers answered

At length he received Sir Dogberry's commands to accompany his guest at the final interview; and, after the absolving suffrage of the gentleman honoured with the confidence of Ministers, answered, as follows, to the following queries: D. "Well, landlord!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

of milk and

“Commands from Miss Ingram’s lips would put spirit into a mug of milk and water.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

of men and

—‘I believe that fairies exist as a tribe of spirits, and appear to us in the form of men and women.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

of money and

Nicostratus the Argive, when Archidamus offered him a large sum of money and any Lacedæmonian bride he chose if he would deliver up Cromnum, said Archidamus could not be a descendant of Hercules, for he travelled about and killed evil-doers, whereas Archidamus tried to make evil-doers of 265 the good.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

or man as

As a rule we do not look upon this trait in boy or man as criminal.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

other members and

e and Mr. Langton and I went together to THE CLUB, where we found Mr. Burke, Mr. Garrick, and some other members, and amongst them our friend Goldsmith, who sat silently brooding over Johnson's reprimand to him after dinner.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

of mind and

As this Chen Shih-yin was of a contented and unambitious frame of mind, and entertained no hankering after any official distinction, but day after day of his life took delight in gazing at flowers, planting bamboos, sipping his wine and conning poetical works, he was in fact, in the indulgence of these pursuits, as happy as a supernatural being.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

one meets and

The result is extremely bewildering, for, all the villages being either in ruins or uninhabited, there is no one to question but the soldiers one meets, and their answer is almost invariably "We don't know—we don't belong here."
— from Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

others may also

When I consider these favors, I am led to covet that a double portion of the spirit of the Elijahs may so rest on the Elishas that others may also be raised to fill up the honorable situations of those worthies, when they shall be removed from works to rewards.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

of me again

You hain't never goin' ter have no call ter be scared of me again, never.”
— from The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright

of moor a

Outside the little square of window, the sky-colour was fast being drained and sucked into the West; and over the line of moor, a pale lemon-coloured moon wound and unwound herself like a dancer amidst trailing wisps of cloud, lilac and tender pink.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

out money at

He presently fell upon Besançon, and to argue whether it were convenient or no to put out money at Besançon.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

owe me anything

“He doesn’t owe me anything.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

our mouth and

Or again, we fancy that the means of gaining heaven are something stranger and rarer than the mere obvious duty of obedience to God; we are loth to seek Christ in the waters of Jordan rather than in Pharpar and Abana, rivers of Damascus; we prefer to seek Him in the height above, or to descend into the deep, rather than to believe that the word is nigh us, even in our mouth and in our heart[35].
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

of Mar All

“They are on the eve of rising,” replied the Earl of Mar. “All the disaffected gentlemen throughout the kingdom are ready for action.”
— from Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 by William Harrison Ainsworth

of manner and

He looked something like a vignette to one of Richardson’s novels, and had a clean-cravatish formality of manner, and kitchen-pokerness of carriage, which Sir Charles Grandison himself might have envied.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

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