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Attica another race and not the

After this the part which lies on the coast of the same sea still, a country which is mountainous and runs out in the direction of the Pontus, is occupied by the Tauric race, as far as the peninsula which is called the "Rugged Chersonese"; and this extends to the sea which lies towards the East Wind: for two sides of the Scythian boundaries lie along by the sea, one by the sea on the South, and the other by that on the East, just as it is with Attica: and in truth the Tauroi occupy a part of Scythia which has much resemblance to Attica; it is as if in Attica another race and not the Athenians occupied the hill region 98 of Sunion, supposing it to project more at the point into the sea, that region namely which is cut off by a line from Thoricos to Anaphlystos.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

at all regarded and not the

If we consider the animal world in general, we find beauty confined to no certain measures; but as some peculiar measure and relation of parts is what distinguishes each peculiar class of animals, it must of necessity be, that the beautiful in each kind will be found in the measures and proportions of that kind; for otherwise it would deviate from its proper species, and become in some sort monstrous: however, no species is so strictly confined to any certain proportions, that there is not a considerable variation amongst the individuals; and as it has been shown of the human, so it may be shown of the brute kinds, that beauty is found indifferently in all the proportions which each kind can admit, without quitting its common form; and it is this idea of a common form that makes the proportion of parts at all regarded, and not the operation of any natural cause: indeed a little consideration will make it appear, that it is not measure, but manner, that creates all the beauty which belongs to shape.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

absurd and ridiculous as not to

There is no state so absurd and ridiculous as not to prefer unjust dominion to just subordination.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

and Acarnanian races and now they

Once before they made a treaty with Antigonus, as I said just now, for the destruction of the Achaean and Acarnanian races; and now they have done the same with Rome for the destruction of all Greece.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

as a rule absolutely nothing to

Captains of brigades and battalions had, as a rule, absolutely nothing to do in the winter.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

again and returned at nightfall to

The rascally labourers, when they caught sight of their treasure, feigned to see nothing, promptly covered it up again, and returned at nightfall to divide the spoil.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

at a rock and nearly thrown

"I was as near off as anything that time," shouted the irrepressible Jack, when his horse had shied at a rock and nearly thrown him.
— from With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

as are romantic and not to

It is to be observed, that it has been the opinion of all the sailors who have navigated those parts of the world, that farther south there are great tracts of undiscovered land; and some have told us they have seen them, and have called them by such and such name, as, particularly, the Isles of Solomon, of which yet we can read of nobody that ever went on shore on them, or that could give any account of them, except such as are romantic, and not to be depended upon.
— from A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe

as a rule apt not to

Mrs Fortescue was a crooked-minded woman; but very straight people are, as a rule, apt not to see the crookedness of their friends.
— from The Girl and Her Fortune by L. T. Meade

at any rate are not then

In other instances the evidences of idiocy are not present at birth, or at any rate are not then noticed, but succeed to some attack of convulsions or to some illness attended with serious affection of the brain.
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West

an abundant revenue and numerous tributary

We Athenians entered into the war against Sparta with a powerful army and fleet, an abundant revenue, and numerous tributary cities in Asia as well as Europe,—among them this very Byzantium in which we now stand.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

as a rule are next to

I cannot see why one nation or one country alone should have the intelligence of producing fables which as a rule are next to religion in their teaching and intentions.
— from Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Pandit Natesa Sastri

and a reason and none that

You had a right and a reason, and none that you would be ashamed to tell, for her being there.”
— from By Blow and Kiss: The Love Story of a Man with a Bad Name. (Published serially under the title Unstable as Water). by Boyd Cable

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