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spectacle of life and never to

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

system of liberty as not to

There is no philosopher, whose judgment is so riveted to this fantastical system of liberty, as not to acknowledge the force of moral evidence, and both in speculation and practice proceed upon it, as upon a reasonable foundation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

strength of limb are not the

Length and strength of limb are not the same thing as courage or genius, and I grant that strength of mind does not always accompany strength of body, when the means of connection between the two are otherwise faulty.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

society of literati and not to

That we had lived to see his dust in honored sepulture in the church of Santa Croce we owed to a society of literati, and not to Florence or her rulers.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

sound of laughter and not the

In the course of my stumbling upstairs, I fancied I heard a pleasant sound of laughter; and not the laughter of an attorney or barrister, or attorney’s clerk or barrister’s clerk, but of two or three merry girls.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

sweeps of lawn and noble trees

The conventionalities of its borders, its terraces and steps and images in lead or marble, its ornamental water, its trim geometrical [Pg 68] patterns, its quincunx, clipped hedges, high hedges, and architectural adornments shall be balanced by great sweeps of lawn and noble trees that are not constrained to take hands, as in France, across the road and to look proper, but are left to grow large and thick and wide and free.
— from Garden-Craft Old and New by John Dando Sedding

sea or land and not the

It is 'the light which never was on sea or land,' and not the material light which sense-bound eyes can see.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

stroke of light and now there

She went like a sudden stroke of light; and now there cometh a man clad in sober apparel, with an inkhorn at his girdle.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

selection of locations and notwithstanding the

The recent opening to settlement of the lands in the Cherokee Outlet, embracing an area of 6,500,000 acres, notwithstanding the utmost care in framing the regulations governing the selection of locations and notwithstanding the presence of United States troops, furnished an exhibition, though perhaps in a modified degree, of the mad scramble, the violence, and the fraudulent occupation which have accompanied previous openings of public land.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

strata of lava are not throughout

First, because strata of lava are not throughout of an equal thickness: secondly, because they contain only matters which have evidently been calcined, vitrified, or melted; [168] and thirdly, because they do not extend to any great distance.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

spurs of Lebanon and near the

Its situation, in a plain of great fertility, at the foot of the south-western spurs of Lebanon, and near the gorge of the Litany, was one of great beauty.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

sign of life anywhere nothing to

Not a house in sight, not a sign of life anywhere, nothing to break its even surface but some pools of water glimmering coldly grey in the morning light.
— from Penelope and the Others: Story of Five Country Children by Amy Walton

so often lately around not the

I saw all the familiar faces I had met so often lately around, not the festive, but the scientific board, and mingled with them were few not so often seen of late.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

Street or lived at Nocton they

All the poor little children who read History 100 years hence will come to the Goderich administration, and as they will never have dined in Downing Street, or lived at Nocton, they will not have an idea what a thorough poor creature he is.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

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