In the same certain way that death is brought about by a mental process—cursing—so miraculous cures are effected, and Urio Moquru is one of the most useful gods in New Guinea for this sort of thing.
— from The Savage South Seas by E. Way (Ernest Way) Elkington

Secondly , Seeing the contrary Doctrine is built upon this false Hypothesis, That Grace is not given for Salvation to any, but to a certain elect Number, which cannot lose it, and that all the rest of Mankind, by an absolute Decree, are debarred from Grace and Salvation ; that being destroyed, this falls to the Ground.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

What I’m saying is, suing these guys is not good for our business.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

"I am afraid you are not well, and all this heat and glare is not good for you."
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“He would,” Mr. Chamberlain writes, “have been further degraded, but that he had great, if not gratis , friends in the bedchamber.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

But a being, however perfect, without government, is not God; for we say, my God, your God, the God of Israel.
— from Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies. by John Robison

Governor Wordyfellow defends the general proposition by some scattering statistics which prove to his mind that education generally is not good for the negro; but he justifies the division of the school fund on the basis of contribution upon the supposed principle that the negro will get back all that he pays in and therefore cannot rightly demand more.
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

That this grace is not given for the performance of every moral act, the liberty of the will and information in points of duty being sufficient.
— from The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace

This is unquestionably the form in which that fundamental law of thought is stated by Plato: "Whatever is generated is necessarily generated from a certain cause, for it is wholly impossible that any thing should be generated without a cause."
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker