When Newton enunciated the law of gravity he did not say that the sun or the earth had a property of attraction; he said that all bodies from the largest to the smallest have the property of attracting one another, that is, leaving aside the question of the cause of the movement of the bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies from the infinitely large to the infinitely small.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thus it came about that though the German tribes conquered Europe they did not extend the limits of Germany nor the sway of the German race.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

This is a name which will be more familiar to the reader, and if he has never encountered the little olive-green, gilt-edged budget of Herbert’s [40] poems, he can hardly have failed to have met, on some page of the anthologies, such excerpt as this about Virtue: “Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

It is not either the "love of God", for an atheist may have morality, and "Diderot, d'Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been the most virtuous of men."
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

No one shall prevent it, not even the Lieutenant of God on earth.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) by John Lothrop Motley

"To which you will concede no favor, Laura; not even the love of glory."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

On many nights we had not even the luxury of going to bed in dry clothes for when the fire was insufficient to dry our shoes we durst not venture to pull them off lest they should freeze so hard as to be unfit to put on in the morning and therefore inconvenient to carry.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Dark and sorrowful such hours must ever be; for the dim eyes of mortality see the lamp of faith but faintly, and there is nought else to light our gaze through the obscure vault of death to the bright world of re-union.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She had never enjoyed the luxury of giving before.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

One is, it cannot be denied, often bored, and occasionally irritated, by Polixenes and Camillo and Sebastian and Gonzalo and Belarius; these personages have not even the life of ghosts; they are hardly more than speaking names, that give patient utterance to involution upon involution.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

Hur had listened intently and, impressed by the earnestness of the words, now exclaimed: "The Lord our God has heard your vow and against your oath I, in the presence of this heap, take another: If the hour comes when, mindful of this heap of stones, you give the testimony you have refused me, there shall henceforward be no ill-will between us, and if it is in accordance with the will of the Most High, I will cheerfully resign to you the office of commander, which you, trained in many wars, would be better suited to fill than I, who hitherto have ruled only my flocks and shepherds.
— from Joshua — Volume 2 by Georg Ebers