And though it be our duty to do, not what they do, but what they say; yet will that duty never be performed, till it please God to give men an extraordinary, and supernaturall grace to follow that Precept. H2 anchor Comparison Of Crimes From Their Effects
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

They could not even imagine it in definite form and shape, but, strange and wonderful to relate, though they lost all faith in their past happiness and called it a legend, they so longed to be happy and innocent once more that they succumbed to this desire like children, made an idol of it, set up temples and worshipped their own idea, their own desire; though at the same time they fully believed that it was unattainable and could not be realised, yet they bowed down to it and adored it with tears!
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

then we shall all live together as peacefully, honorably, and contentedly as it is possible to do in this world, and at last in God's good time all meet again above—the purpose for which we were destined and created.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

a becoming bold Hyfâeth, a. nourishable Hyfagl, a. apt to entangle Hyfai, a. culpable; faulty Hyfarn, judicable; censorious Hyfau, v. to become bold Hyfawl, a. laudable Hyfdra, n. boldness Hyfed, a. ready for reaping Hyfedr, a. skilful, expert Hyfedredd, n. skilfulness Hyferw, a. easily boiled Hyfeth, a. fallible Hyfoes, a. of easy manners Hyfraw, a. being, easily awed Hyfriw, a. apt to be broken Hyfrwd, a. being easily heated Hyfryd, a. cheerful, delightful Hyfrydedd, n. delightfulness Hyfrydu, v. to make cheerful Hyfrydwch, n. delightfulness Hyfrys, a. apt to be hasty Hyfyr, n. a gelt goat Hyff, n. a drive; a drift Hyffagl, a. apt to flame Hyffawd, a. aptly prospering Hyffiad, n. a forcing on Hyffiaw, v. to drift Hyfflam, a. apt to flame Hyffo, a. capable of retreating Hyffordd, a. apt to make way Hyfforddi, v. to direct Hyfforddiad, n. a forwarding Hyfforddiant, n. direction Hyfforddus, a. dexterous Hygael, a. obtainable Hygant, n. community Hygar, a. lovely, amiable Hygardd, a. reproachable Hygarth, a. easily cleansed out Hygas, a. hateful Hyged, a. liberal Hygel, a. easily hidden Hyglod, a. susceptible of praise Hyglust, a. of ready ear Hyglwyf, a. ready wounded Hyglyw, a. audible Hygoel, a. credible, credulous Hygof, a. easily remembered Hygoll, a. easily lost Hygosb, a. punishable Hygred, a. credible Hygryn, a. easily shaken Hygwsg, a. easily sleeping Hygylch, a. apt to surround Hygyrch, a. approachable Hyladd, a. easily cut off Hylafar, a. ready of speech Hylam, a. of nimble step Hylaw, a. handy, dexterous Hylawn, a. apt to be full Hyled, a. aptly spreading Hylef, a. ready voice Hyles, a. apt to benefit Hylid, a. apt to be angry Hylithredd, a. aptness to glide Hylon, a. apt to be cheerful Hylwgr, a. corruptible Hylwydd, a. fortunate Hylwyddo, v. to prosper Hyll, a. gloomy; wild; ugly Hylldra, a. ugliness Hylldrem, n. grim aspect Hylldremiad, n. wildly look Hylldremwr, n. grim looker Hylliad, n. a dismaying Hyllu, v. to make ugly Hyn, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Brook Farm is a thing of the past.” H2 anchor CHAPTER VI As Lothaw drove toward his country-seat, The Mural Inclosure, he observed a crowd, apparently of the working-class, gathered around a singular-looking man in the picturesque garb of an Ethiopian serenader.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[6] If we consider the frightful disorders which printing has already caused in Europe, and judge of the future by the progress of its evils from day to day, it is easy to foresee that sovereigns will hereafter take as much pains to banish this dreadful art from their dominions, as they ever took to encourage it The Sultan Achmet, yielding to the importunities of certain pretenders to taste, consented to have a press erected at Constantinople; but it was hardly set to work before they were obliged to destroy it, and throw the plant into a well.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that immense question: the sewers of Paris.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

" "It seems to me that it is only right, in the first instance, to make an effort to return to Hellas and to revisit our hearths and homes, if only to prove to other Hellenes that it is their own faults if they are poor and needy (6), seeing it is in their power to give to those now living a pauper life at home a free passage hither, and convert them into well-to-do burghers at once.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Public Habit and Conscience the best Preventive.
— from Darwinism and Race Progress by John Berry Haycraft

We will add to all these, the professor that would prove himself a Christian, by comparing himself with others, instead of comparing himself with the Word of God.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

If, after his failure from sheer idleness at Leyden, his father had not placed him as clerk in the office of a Manchester house, he would probably never have known certain youths, his fellow clerks, fashionable young rakes, and fierce "strugglers for existence;" still scarcely more than boys, and already the worse for dissipation.
— from Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus

There is no doubt that the batting strength of the Players during these years was very considerable, and, though George Parr, Hayward, and Carpenter did not score their hundreds as the men of modern times so often have done, they made their fifties and sixties with nearly the same consistency.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

A life passed in the practice of every virtue, affords us a rich reward for all the hours we have consecrated to its duties, and enables us in the silence of solitude to raise our pure hands and chaste hearts in pious adoration to our Almighty Father!
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

The Harvester stepped aside and she passed him and crossing the rifled ginseng patch went toward a low brown farmhouse lying in an unkept garden, beside a ragged highway.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

And this was the man of them all, and not the broadcloth village parson, whom Scott Brenton had chosen to pronounce himself and Catia man and wife.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

You almost force me to believe that I could live in the country, feed my own pork, and drink my own milk, without paying half a crown a pound for the one or a shilling a quart for the other, and this was what I never before believed possible; and I am quite sure, that if I were to put the assertion in a book, no one would believe me."
— from Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it by Miss Coulton

Suddenly, and simultaneously, the French line dropped to the ground, the Prussians halted and came to the ready; for a moment they stood motionless.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore