As no event, no face, entirely resembles another, so do they not entirely differ: an ingenious mixture of nature.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

a continual uncertain guessing after such; so that one eye in History as regards them is as if put out;—neither indeed have I yet had the luck to find any decipherable and intelligible map of Norway: so that the other eye of History is much blinded withal, and her path through those wild regions and epochs is an extremely dim and chaotic one.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

That passage from Milton which Burn supposes to be faulty, and that expression of Addison's which Churchill dislikes, are, in my opinion, not incorrect as they stand; though, doubtless, the latter admits of the variation proposed.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

In Germany, in Denmark and in many other nations, the government lends its aid toward the establishment of people
— from A Living from the Land by William Budington Duryee

They have decided that the Empire shall not be destroyed; and in my opinion no Minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our colonial empire and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.’
— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude

But to compass in permanent form its aspirations in this direction, as in many others, nature is incompetent.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

To these people this preliminary chapter about the precise happenings must appear not only dry (and it must of necessity be the dryest part of the task), but essentially needless and barren.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

The question was, did an indicator move, or not, under a certain amount of pressure?
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang