Again; personality is not "essentially a limitation and a relation," in the sense that it necessarily detracts aught from any being who possesses it.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

4. | For —(the process is now explained at large) the impossible of the Law —what it could not do, for this was not its function, even to enable us sinners to keep its precept from the soul— God, when He sent His own Son in likeness of flesh of sin, Incarnate, in our identical nature, under all those conditions of earthly life which for us are sin's vehicles and occasions, and as Sin-Offering, [123] expiatory and reconciling, sentenced sin in the flesh; not pardoned it, observe, but sentenced it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

It is a fact that touching for the King’s Evil has been practised in New England as late as 1815, perhaps even later.
— from The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake

The poet is not embellishing a laboured theme: he goes on and on because his emotion bursts forth again and again, diversifying the same topic with an inexhaustible variety of style and metaphor.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Very easy about your interest and your premiums; very careless who arrests you in your leaden vesture; and having paid, if nothing else, at least your beloved son's post obit .
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Potts is not exactly a lofty-souled creature.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor

The iodid is not present as potassium iodid, nor, entirely, at least, as hydrogen iodid (hydriodic acid), but this is of slight importance compared with the fact that it is a solution in alcohol of free iodin and an iodid, and therefore is essentially the same as Lugol’s solution.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)