With regard to the former I shall observe, that, in all deliberations concerning America, the ideas of that administration were principally these; to take trade as the primary end, and revenue but as a very subordinate consideration.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The motives for failure to prevent injury and so for slighting duty are likely to be various: people either are reluctant to incur enmity or trouble or expense; | a. Preoccupation.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present, enjoining a reliance on faith—a watching of the cloud and pillar which subdue while they guide, and awe while they illumine—hushing the impulse to fond idolatry, checking the longing out-look for a far-off promised land whose rivers are, perhaps, never to be, reached save in dying dreams, whose sweet pastures are to be viewed but from the desolate and sepulchral summit of a Nebo.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

What makes him cry out is that, while he sees his purpose effected as regards Hamlet, he also sees Laertes in danger through the exchange of foils in the scuffle.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

ad this year Elest, n. flags, or sedges Elestr, n. flag; fleus de lys Elestren, n. flag; fluer de lys Elf, n. elementary principle Elfaeth, n. elementation Elfed, a. autumn Elfen, n. particle; element Elfeniad, n. elementation Elfenol, elemental, elementary Elfenu, v. to element Elfod, n. intellectual existence Ellyd, intellectual world Elfydd, n. elementary principle, earth, land Elfyddan, n. the earthly globe Elfydden, n. earth: region Elfyddu, v. to element Elff, n. pure state; a demon Elgain, a. supremely fair Elgeth, n. the chin, the jaw Eli, n. a salve, a plaister Eliad, n. a doing with salve Eliaw, v. to apply a salve Elin, n. angle; an elbow Elinad, n. a making an angle Elinaw, v. to angle; to elbow Elinawg, a. angular; jointly Elindys, n. caterpillars Elor, n. a bier; a hearse Elu, v. to move on: to go Elus, a. bounteous, charitable Elusen, n. bounty, alms Eluseraidd, a. of a charitable turn Elusendod, n. alms giving Elusendy, n. alms house Elusengar, a. charitable Elusengarwch, charitableness Eluseni, n. bounty, charity Elusenwr, n. an almoner Elw, n. goods, profit, gain Elwa, v. to get wealth; to trade Elwant, n. profit; lucre Elwch, n. shout of joy; joy Elwi, v. to turn to profit Elwig, a. tending to produce Elwl, n. the reins Elwlen, n. a kidney Elyd, n. what is fused Elydn, n. brass Elydraidd, a like brass, brassy Elydyr, n. brass, bell-metal Elyf, n. that glides: a. gliding Elyw, n. aloes, juice of aloes Ell, n. that is divided or outward; a. outward extreme Ellael, n. an eyebrow Ellaig, n. a pear Ellain, a. radiant, splendid Ellast, n. thistle Ellbwyd, n. famine; hunger Ellmyn, n. foreigners; Germans Elltrewen, n. gossip; stepmother Ellt, n. that is parted off Ellwedd, n. outward aspect Ellydd, n. a cutting off Ellyll, n. an elf or goblin Ellylldan, n. ignis fatuus Ellylles, n. a she goblin Ellyllyn, n. a little imp Ellyn, n. a cutter, a razor Ellynedd, n. the last year
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Of saying the things I do not know,— That I may detect the inmost force Which binds the world, and guides its course; Its germs, productive powers explore, And rummage in empty words no more!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In order to escape these sophistications, it suffices to revert to immediate observation and state the question in its proper terms: nature lives, and perception is a private echo and response to ambient motions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

God often works by contrarieties, he first kills and then makes alive, he woundeth first and then healeth, he makes man sow in tears that he may reap in joy; 'tis God's method: he that is so visited, must with patience endure and rest satisfied for the present.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

When a person expresses a repugnance to some wholesome article of food, agreeable to most people, we are satisfied if he gives the same reason.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

The canopy above is composed of the sharpest thorns, woven together in such a manner as to deny all entrance except at the door, which is just large enough to permit egress and regress to the owners.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

“Well, youngster,” rejoined the other, seeming, on the contrary, to become calmer, and speaking with a composure strange under the circumstances, “that’s speech plain enough, and rude enough.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

Although the males have not even a trace of a horn on the upper surface of the body, yet the females plainly exhibit a rudiment of a single horn on the head (Fig.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

I have the honor,to be, with sentiments of the most perfect esteem and respect.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

I have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

He paid great compliments to the officers of land and sea, and pleaded earnestly against relinquishing Germany.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole