The influence of the Sabbath upon the rich is not so easily discerned.
— from The Sabbath at Home by Silas M. (Silas Milton) Andrews

Here are two of the plain, practical, little things necessary to produce good Nurses, the want of attention to which produces some of the “greatest evils in life”: quietness, cleanliness, ( a ) Quietness in moving about the “Home”; in arranging your rooms, in not slamming every door after you.
— from Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospital by Florence Nightingale

Footnote 26 : ( return ) It now seems even doubtful whether the famous letter of Dost Mohammed to the Emperor of Russia, which constituted the gravamen of the charge against him, was ever really written, or at least with his concurrence.—
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

The question of a State railway is not so easily determined.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

By the behaviour of the ministry for some years past, it evidently appears, that the preserving the peace of Europe , and securing the trade and prosperity of the kingdom, has been their greatest concern; but whether means taken to that end have been always right, is not so easily determin’d.
— from The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1731 Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer by Various