Let us now consider the Conversion it self, and see what there was therein, that could be cause of such an obligation.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

In fact, although from the agreement of perceptions with laws in accordance with universal natural concepts (the categories), we do not and cannot find in ourselves the slightest effect upon the feeling of pleasure, because the Understanding necessarily proceeds according to its nature without any design; yet, on the other hand, the discovery that two or more empirical heterogeneous laws of nature may be combined under one principle comprehending them both, is the ground of a very marked pleasure, often even of an admiration, which does not cease, though we may be already quite familiar with the objects of it.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Meanwhile, let utilitarians never cease to claim the morality of self-devotion as a possession which belongs by as good a right to them, as either to the Stoic or to the Transcendentalist.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

3. et 6. &c. quod itinera una nocte confecissent, tot coronas ludicro deo puta Triphallo, Marsiae, Hermae, Priapo donarent, Cin. gemus tibi mentulam coronis, &c. 2996 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We were willing to believe that Mrs. Shimerda was a good housewife in her own country, but she managed poorly under new conditions: the conditions were bad enough, certainly!
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

But of every reasonable mind, this the particular nature, that it hath reference to whatsoever is of her own kind, and desireth to be united: neither can this common affection, or mutual unity and correspondency, be here intercepted or divided, or confined to particulars as those other common things are.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

But I witnessed the fight from the National side from eight o'clock in the morning until night closed the contest.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Preparation commission for the Nuclear-Ban-Treaty Operation CY: calendar year DC: developed country DDT: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane Desertification: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa DIA: United States Defense Intelligence Agency DSN: Defense Switched Network DST: daylight savings time DWT: deadweight ton EAC: East African Community EADB: East African Development Bank EAEC: Eurasian Economic Community EAPC: Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council EBRD: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EC: European Community ECA: Economic Commission for Africa ECE: Economic Commission for Europe ECLAC: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ECO: Economic Cooperation Organization ECOSOC: Economic and Social Council ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States ECSC: European Coal and Steel Community EEC: European Economic Community EFTA: European Free Trade Association EEZ: exclusive economic zone EIB: European Investment Bank EMU: European Monetary Union Endangered Species: Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) Entente: Council of the Entente Environmental Modification: Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques ESA: European Space Agency ESCAP: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ESCWA: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia est.: estimate EU: European Union Euratom: European Atomic Energy Community Eutelsat: European Telecommunications Satellite Organization Ex-Im: Export-Import Bank of the United States f.o.b.: free on board FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization FAX: facsimile FLS: Front Line States FOC: flags of convenience FSU: former Soviet Union FY: fiscal year FZ: Franc Zone G-2: Group of 2 G-3: Group of 3 G-5: Group of 5 G-6: Group of 6 G-7: Group of 7 G-8: Group of 8 G-9: Group of 9 G-10: Group of 10 G-15: Group of 15 G-11: Group of 11 G-24: Group of 24 G-77: Group of 77 GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; now WTO GCC: Gulf Cooperation Council GCTU: General Confederation of Trade Unions GDP: gross domestic product GMT: Greenwich Mean Time GNP: gross national product GRT: gross register ton GSM: global system for mobile cellular communications GUAM: Organization for Democracy and Economic Development; acronym for member states - Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova GWP: gross world product Hazardous Wastes: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal HF: high-frequency HIV/AIDS: human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome IADB: Inter-American Development Bank IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IBRD: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization ICC: International Chamber of Commerce ICCt: International Criminal Court ICJ: International Court of Justice (World Court) ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross ICRM: International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement ICSID: International Center for Secretariat of Investment Disputes ICTR: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ICTY: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia IDA: International Development Association IDB: Islamic Development Bank IDP: Internally Displaced Person IEA: International Energy Agency IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development IFC: International Finance Corporation IFRCS: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Let us now consider the criminal's physiognomy.
— from Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison

Let us now come to close quarters with this important issue.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

Let us excuse our forefathers as much as we can, but, in the interest of the religion of Christ, let us not call their crimes virtues.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

We had never disclosed it to our father or mother, though we had used no craft to conceal it.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

Let us never cease to cherish the remembrance of the days when we followed it and fought for it.
— from The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches by Henry A. (Henry Anson) Castle

But let us now consider the case of Science.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

It consists in dressing the wound with reliable antiseptics, and maintaining the parts in a healthy condition until Nature completes the cure by repairing the breach.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

Let us next consider the conditions under which the town of Southwark began to exist and to continue for a great many years.
— from South London by Walter Besant