In early Victorian days there was no lack of educated people, and because they liked the particular form of decoration associated with their period, who is justified in saying that, because that peculiar style of decoration is not acceptable now to ourselves, their art was bad, and worse than our own?
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Lamb wrote to Barton in 1827: "Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps—good works."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

After the second battle of Manassas, General Lee decided to invade Maryland, and of course, the capture of Harper's Ferry became very desirable if not absolutely necessary to him.
— from The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, with Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry

—In case of an injury where walking is impossible, and lying down is not absolutely necessary, the injured person may be seated in a chair, and carried; or he may sit upon a board, the ends of which are carried by two men, around whose necks he should place his arms so as to steady himself.
— from Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics; Relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, etc. by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

Jeanne, my dear, in country families it is a standing dilemma; if not a notary, then an advocate; if not an advocate, then a notary.”
— from The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Complete by René Bazin

Also, that of all the wonder-working once effected by the holy men of the Church, the only gift now remaining to them is the miraculous power of changing sons and daughters into nephews and nieces; the which, as I am assured, is still as flourishing as ever, and permitted as a proof of transubstantiation.”
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

But does it not also negative the bare possibility of the man and the anthropoid having had a common—though, so far, an absolutely theoretical—ancestor?
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Dissatisfaction or discontent is not always necessary to spur one on to added powers and responsibilities.
— from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden

If we can find amongst these a single example in which their physical and mental powers have shown undiminished activity, this will serve to establish the fact that racial decay is not a necessary termination to the history of a people.
— from Darwinism and Race Progress by John Berry Haycraft

Why does it need a Newton to notice the law of the squares, a Darwin to notice the survival of the fittest?
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

Yet Vittoria writes as follows:— "Se in man prender non soglio unqua la lima Del buon giudicio, e ricercando intorno Con occhio disdegnoso, io non adorno Nè tergo la mia rozza incolta rima, Nasce perchè non è mia cura prima Procacciar di ciò lode, o fuggir scorno; Nè che dopo il mio lieto
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope