413 - 417 CHAPTER II THE PROOF OF UTILITARIANISM Common Sense demands a Proof of the first Principle of this method, more clearly than in the case of Egoism and Intuitionism.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

allusion , f. , mot, phrase qui fait penser à une personne ou une chose sans qu'on en parle.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

In the ball-room here, before the completion of the brick building which replaced the Legislative Halls destroyed by the Americans in 1813, the Parliament of Upper Canada sat for one session.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

In the main their narrative is to be accepted, but the possibility of unconscious coloring should not be disregarded.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Corn, it has been said, being a sort of manufacture, was, in those rude ages, much dearer in proportion than the greater part of other commodities; it is meant, I suppose, than the greater part of unmanufactured commodities, such as cattle, poultry, game of all kinds, etc.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Yet, under the pressure of urgent considerations, she flies from Ida to Olympus, as the bearer of Jupiter’s message, with a rapidity that Homer illustrates by the remarkable simile of the travelling of Thought [679] .
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

The two men pushed on up Centre Street, where the march of home-goers was now beginning to thin out, in a moment of silence.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake in moderate oven (350-f) about 12 minutes.
— from Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking by Unknown

We gather from Molina that on occasions when the whole tribe participated in such religious observances, the people of Upper Cuzco sat apart front Lower Cuzco.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

The black draperies, the dissevered head, the drops of blood which had stained the dais—all had vanished with the phantoms; only upon Charles's slipper was there a bloodstain.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée

But we certainly shall wonder how colors and tones which were such innermost parts of us could suddenly get lost in our physical world of atoms; how we could be suddenly surprised that something which outside us simply clicked and beat, in our heads should make light and music; and how we could ask whether matter can feel, that is to say, whether a mental symbol for a group of sensations can feel?
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

Not you, truly; it was I; but you are a pair of ungrateful creatures, so you are."
— from Fairy Tales From all Nations by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba