And how that boy smiled back at her! Emotion squeezed Soames' heart. The sight infringed his sense of justice. He grudged her that boy's smile--it went beyond what Fleur gave him, and it was undeserved. Their son might have been his son; Fleur might have been her daughter, if she had kept straight! He lowered his catalogue. If she saw him, all the better! A reminder of her conduct in the presence of her son, who probably knew nothing of it, would be a salutary touch from the finger of that Nemesis which surely must soon or late visit her!英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
Said Ioasaph, "If, then, this kind of philosophy be so ancient and so salutary, how cometh it that so few folk now-a-days follow it?"英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》
The only difference which exists between them is, that the term for which the Senate is chosen is in general longer than that of the House of Representatives. The latter seldom remain in office longer than a year; the former usually sit two or three years. By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed seriatim, the law takes care to preserve in the legislative body a nucleus of men already accustomed to public business, and capable of exercising a salutary influence upon the junior members.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
345.) The Englishman, on the contrary, continuing obstinately attached to the customs and the most insignificant habits of his forefathers, has remained in the midst of the American solitudes just what he was in the bosom of European cities; he would not allow of any communication with savages whom he despised, and avoided with care the union of his race with theirs. Thus while the French exercised no salutary influence over the Indians, the English have always remained alien from them.]英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
And we see that Providence, ever attentive to provide remedies for the disorders which the progress of society occasions in the world, has provided for idleness--as soon as the condition of society renders it a vice, but not before--a punishment every way suited to its nature, and calculated to prevent its prevalency and pernicious consequences:--This is WANT,--and a most efficacious remedy it is for the evil,--when the WISDOM OF MAN does not interfere to counteract it, and prevent its salutary effects.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
[4] This measure has been followed by the most salutary effects at Munich. The commissaries of districts flattered by this distinction have exerted themselves with uncommon zeal and assiduity in the discharge of the important duties of their office. And very important indeed is the office of a commissary of a district in the Establishment for the Poor at Munich.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》