This Elizabethan Era, and all its nobleness and blessedness, came without proclamation, preparation of ours.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

In sentence c we are told that Julia is not alone, but in company with Sextus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

One mistake had been made in not arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate him.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

To these evolutions there is needed a base, a point from which they depart and to which they return.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The fact that I can do so with digital files is not a bug, it's a feature, and a damned fine one.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

If it were a fifth body, then certainly it would be above the rest; and if it is not a body at all, so much the more does it rise above all.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"Redemption is not attained by the acquisition of virtues; for redemption consists in being one with Brahman, who is incapable of acquiring any perfection; and equally little does it consist in the giving up of faults , for the Brahman, unity with whom is what constitutes redemption, is eternally pure" (these passages are from the Commentaries of the Cankara, quoted from the first real European expert of the Indian philosophy, my friend Paul Deussen).
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He is not a bad fellow, and I should not like to do anything which would injure him professionally.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

He has it now; and by his looks methinks 'Tis warm at's heart.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Tauler had summed up the doctrine already well known in earlier ages in the beautiful words: “When the most trivial work is performed in real and simple obedience, such a work of an obedient man is nobler and better and more pleasing to God and is more profitable and meritorious than all the great works which he may do here below of his own choice.”
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

She is not a bad woman.”
— from The Witch, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“The foolish fondness of an indulgent mother, and some want of firmness in paternal discipline, accelerated the growth of every weed of infamy in Nicholas, and baffled every experiment, by sea and land, to ‘set’ him up in life.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

The villarsia, which looks like a water-lily, is not related at all, while the buck-bean is not a bean, but akin to the gentians.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

The rightness of the form is not affected by the wrongness of the people who choose to work in it; and that the form itself is essentially right, I have, I hope, given adequate proof.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman

The people of Weihaiwei consist of peasant-farmers—very poor from the Western point of view: yet there is not a beggar in the Territory, and if an almshouse or an infirmary were established there to-morrow it would probably remain untenanted.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

Is it not a beautiful morning?"
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

His animus was all against the British Navy, his sympathies all in favour of the British sailor, in whom he recognised as good, if not a better seaman than himself.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

Paulhat-Durand answered: "Undoubtedly she is not a beauty, but Mademoiselle is very honest."
— from A Chambermaid's Diary by Octave Mirbeau

"That stranger is nearly as big as Lightfoot, but it is very plain that he doesn't want to fight," thought Sammy.
— from The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess