The wealthy, on their part, had no sooner begun to taste the pleasure of command, than they disdained all others, and, using their old slaves to acquire new, thought of nothing but subduing and enslaving their neighbours; like ravenous wolves, which, having once tasted human flesh, despise every other food and thenceforth seek only men to devour.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An examination of the documents shows that, although a large part of the Addresses is concerned with spirit, purpose, and intention, and not with concrete solutions, and that many questions requiring a settlement in the Peace Treaty are not touched on, nevertheless, there are certain questions which they settle definitely.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

But, on the contrary, he takes away neither the one nor the other part of Nature; but rendering to each of them what belongs to it and is convenient for it, he places the intelligible in the idea of one and of "that which is," calling it ENS because it is eternal and incorruptible, and one because it is always like itself and admits no diversity.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

But while he preferred the more distant to the more immediate end, it was his fate to achieve neither the one nor the other.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

This was the cause, I suppose, that both the spring at Terfowey, and now this of Naibey, were brackish to the taste, and especially that of Naibey.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

They are neither the one nor the other.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

But these are neither the only, nor the greatest Advantages we have; all that is excellent in France , Italy , or any of our neighbouring Nations is now become our own; to one of whom, I may be bold to say, we are beholding for more, and greater Improvements of Conversation, than to all 45 Antiquity, and the learned Languages together.
— from An essay in defence of the female sex In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady. by Drake, Judith, active 1696-1707