Thus, the perfection of a thing does not annul its existence, but, on the contrary, asserts it.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

d nearly as in English but approaching to t h, k, l, m, n, q, s, t, w, y, as in English.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A negative answer is expressed by a similar repetition, with nōn or some other negative added: as, estne frāter intus?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Not an invalid exactly, but never again the rosy, healthy creature she had been, yet always hopeful, happy, and serene, and busy with the quiet duties she loved, everyone's friend, and an angel in the house, long before those who loved her most had learned to know it.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Now the land of the Assyrians has but little rain; and this little gives nourishment to the root of the corn, but the crop is ripened and the ear comes on by the help of watering from the river, not as in Egypt by the coming up of the river itself over the fields, but the crop is watered by hand or with swing-buckets.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

My days, my Friend, are almost gone, My life has been approved, And many love me; but by none Am I enough beloved;" or the sonnet on Buonaparte, page 202, vol.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

nd her, but not as I expected, but mightily pleased I am to hear the mother commend her daughter Betty that she is like to be a great beauty, and she sets much by her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Spectator, Volume 1 The Spectator in three volumes: volume 1 A New Edition Reproducing the Original Text Both as First Issued and as Corrected by its Authors with Introduction, Notes, and Index edited by Henry Morley 1891 Table of Contents Preface Original Dedication Dedication to the Second Volume Dedication to the Third Volume No. 1 ­ Thursday, March 1, 1711 ­ Addison No. 2 ­ Friday, March 2, 1711 ­ Steele No. 3 ­
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Not an invalid exactly, but never again the rosy, healthy creature she had been; yet always hopeful, happy, and serene, busy with the quiet duties she loved, every one's friend, and an angel in the house, long before those who loved her most had learned to know it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

New Zealand's prime minister, Seddon, a resolute man whose greatness is not appreciated in Europe, brought his fist down on the table with a vengeance at the last Colonial Conference in London and appealed to Old England's conscience in the face of the yellow danger.
— from Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

The occurrence of a period marked by dry climate over wide areas of the Eurasian continent, and possibly also in North America, is evidenced by the widespread distribution of an accumulation known as loess , concerning the origin of which there has been much difference of opinion, though that it was formed subsequently to the glacial period seems to be generally admitted, inasmuch as it is largely composed of rearranged glacial mud.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT AN ITALIAN ENIGMA BY FERGUS
— from A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma by Fergus Hume

The Mormons are at this time too strong, and no attack is expected before Wednesday or Thursday next, at which time Dr. Austin hopes his forces will amount to five hundred men, when he will make a second attempt on the town of De Witt, with small arms and cannon.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

Having the view of horse-flesh which this preface opens, though we have not had an opportunity of studying it so purely under our mixed government, breeds, and circumstances, it is unnecessary to explain the panic which arose on the announcement of so universal a system of railways to supersede the noble animal in every beneficial and elegant office, and reduce it to the condition of a useless sinecurist, even if permitted to live on human bounty.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

"Yes, the bulletins which are just your bald official account of week-old happenings which are sent to every news agency in Europe before we see them!"
— from The Balkan Peninsula by Frank Fox

The non-Euclideans maintain that space is not an infinite extension; but a finite though unbounded manifold capable of being generated by the movement of a point, line or plane in a direction without itself.
— from The Mystery of Space A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne

I was rather doubtful of the result, as they could not arrive in England before the winter, which might be injurious; but on my next voyage, I looked forward to bringing a larger collection 213 of these beautiful and interesting plants, as they would then arrive in a good season of the year.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

"Come along, then," said he, and started off in the direction of the wood, and, though it was [Pg 100] some days' journey, a glow flushed all through the gray shape of the dream at the news, and its eyes began to shine again.
— from The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables by Richard Le Gallienne