[428] In the first place, we must carefully distinguish between the recognition of goodness in dispositions, and the recognition of rightness in conduct.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In Suffolk the afternoon refreshment of reapers is called BEVER .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Or if there were two such worlds possible, would there be any rhyme or reason in calling one good and the other bad,—good or { 190} bad positively, I mean, and apart from the fact that one might relate itself better than the other to the philosopher's private interests?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The mere desire to conquer each other therefore falls into quite a subordinate relation, or rather it ceases completely to be anything of itself, and only becomes the nerve which conveys the impulse of action from the higher will.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Finally, there is no question of exercising a physical constraint upon blind and, incidentally, imaginary forces, but rather of reaching individual consciousnesses, of giving them a direction and of disciplining them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In Suffolk, the afternoon refreshment of reapers is called BEVER .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The usual recommendations of rotation in crops is, perhaps, more important in cotton culture than anywhere else.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

They lose, besides incurring, so far as disloyal, the pains and penalties of treason, their political rights, or right, as has just been said, to be in their own department self-governing communities, with the right of representation in Congress and the electoral colleges, and to sit in the national convention, or of being counted in the ratification of amendments to the constitution—precisely what it was shown a Territorial people gain by being admitted as a State into the Union.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

O Ringlet, O Ringlet, I count you much to blame, For Ringlet, O Ringlet, You put me much to shame, So Ringlet, O Ringlet, I doom you to the flame.
— from Enoch Arden, &c. by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

As we have seen, the political habits of the more important states have in this respect enormously improved of late years, but there remain a number of minor countries wherein the right of revolution is cherished as the essential principle of their democracy.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Even though social advancement has made rapid strides among comparatively modern peoples and nations, not only traces of mythological, but entire religious observances, reclothed in Christian costumes, [20] are still kept up.
— from A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green

And Peggy, who knew something about Compton’s religious, or rather irreligious, convictions, wondered.
— from Bobby in Movieland by Francis J. (Francis James) Finn

Shortcomings in banking regulatory oversight resulted in concerns about the use of financial institutions for money laundering.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A friend was telling me recently of running into Carl on the street just before he left for Europe and asking him what he was planning to do for the future.
— from An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Cornelia Stratton Parker