Of whom he told me this story: That once the Duke of Albemarle in his drink taking notice as of a wonder that Nan Hide should ever come to be Duchesse of York, “Nay,” says Troutbecke, “ne’er wonder at that; for if you will give me another bottle of wine, I will tell you as great, if not greater, a miracle.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Protestantism, if we will look, has in these days produced its Goethe, its Napoleon; German Literature and the French Revolution; rather considerable signs of life!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

[‘ gast ’] gæsthof n. guest-house , Cr 821. gæsthūs (ie) n. ‘ guest-house ,’ guest-chamber, inn , Mk .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Lawgaw ang ámung grúpu kay way timwurk, Our group is no good because it lacks teamwork.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But remember that all that glitters is not gold.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

His daughters, he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be giving it new grace, and in quitting it, he trusted, would extend its respectable alliances; and the character of Edmund, his strong good sense and uprightness of mind, bid most fairly for utility, honour, and happiness to himself and all his connexions.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Moralizing, I observed, then, that “all that glitters is not gold.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The abstract improbability of such a tendency being transmitted through a vast number of generations, is not greater than that of quite useless or rudimentary organs being similarly transmitted.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

gueux, gueuse , indigent; nécessiteux. guide , m. , celui qui accompagne quelqu'un pour lui montrer le chemin.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

French Polynesia NA French Southern and Antarctic Lands NA Gabon deforestation; poaching Gambia, The deforestation; desertification; water-borne diseases prevalent Gaza Strip desertification; salination of fresh water; sewage treatment; water-borne disease; soil degradation; depletion and contamination of underground water resources Georgia air pollution, particularly in Rust'avi; heavy pollution of Mtkvari River and the Black Sea; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil pollution from toxic chemicals Germany emissions from coal-burning utilities and industries contribute to air pollution; acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions, is damaging forests; pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw sewage and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany; hazardous waste disposal; government established a mechanism for ending the use of nuclear power over the next 15 years; government working to meet EU commitment to identify nature preservation areas in line with the EU's Flora, Fauna, and Habitat directive Ghana recurrent drought in north severely affects agricultural activities; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; poaching and habitat destruction threatens wildlife populations; water pollution; inadequate supplies of potable water Gibraltar limited natural freshwater resources: large concrete or natural rock water catchments collect rainwater (no longer used for drinking water) and adequate desalination plant Glorioso Islands NA Greece air pollution;
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In the chemical laboratory COAL GAS is now generally employed as fuel.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

My Kangaroo Island, a name which they openly adopted in the expedition, has been converted at Paris into L'Isle Decrés ; Spencer's Gulph is named Golfe Bonaparte ; the Gulph of St. Vincent, Golfe Josephine ; and so on along the whole coast to Cape Nuyts, not even the smallest island being left without some similar stamp of French discovery.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

But is there not a proverb that says: “All that glitters is not gold”?
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

All those who understand mines and the getting of gold, being informed of the manner in which it is got in this land, say that all the [167] [country is full of mines], and that if the Spaniards gave implements and skill [in using them] to the Indians so that it might be got out, much gold would be taken from the earth, and it is believed that when this time has arrived, a year will not go by in which a million of gold is not got.
— from An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho

the hatred of the petty for the great is not groundless, and at all times, as Triboulet shows us with regard to the king, and as you exhibit with regard to the drama, such hatred ever yearns to slay.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

So true that saying of the bygone world, ‘A foe’s gift is no gift, and brings no good.’
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Eition is now edition To it is now it to Receips is now receipts Cassolete is now cassolette Whitloes is now whitlows With with was repeated and amended Fisrt is now first Aftewards is now afterwards Died is now dyed Magisterail magisterial Gont is now gout Agrreeable is now agreeable Viguor is now vigour Suprisingly is now
— from The Toilet of Flora or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay by Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz

One is, that the grace of God is not given according to our merits....
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

That good is not good, only so far as it is united with truth; and that truth is not truth, only so far as it is united with good.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg