By virtue of ‘There is no god,’” etc. 322
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat
[There is no good evidence that Akbar destroyed the buildings (Smith, op.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod
There is no greater error than that of making psychical and physical phenomena the two faces, the two manifestations of the same substance.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Look at the matter in this way:—In respect of a man's estate, do you see any greater evil than poverty? POLUS: There is no greater evil.
— from Gorgias by Plato
There is no greater evil in a state than the spirit of innovation.
— from Laws by Plato
A rocking type, that is not generally employed, is constructed on the principle of the screen used by housebuilders to separate coarse sand from the fine, and is [Pg 396] pivoted at the middle so that it can be rocked end to end.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
All this is not good enough for seventy-five thousand roubles, my dear boy.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The politician never should be in advance of circumstances There is nothing good except to ignore and to forget There are many grand and strong things which you do not feel They are the coffin saying: 'I am the cradle' To be beautiful, must a woman have that thin form Trying to make Therese admire what she did not know Umbrellas, like black turtles under the watery skies Unfortunate creature who is the plaything of life Was I not warned enough of the sadness of everything?
— from The French Immortals: Quotes and Images, Complete by Various
There is no good English equivalent for Soto's title of Adelantado .
— from The Trail Book by Mary Hunter Austin
There is no greater error than to suppose winter a drear and joyless season in the country.
— from The Quest of the Simple Life by W. J. (William James) Dawson
And there is no greater encouragement afforded me that the hopes so often expressed by the friends of the Hawaiian people will be fulfilled, than the knowledge that I have the support and sympathy of the great and powerful nations whose officers I rejoice to see before me on this, to me, particularly happy day.
— from Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV. To the Hawaiian Legislature by King of the Hawaiian Islands Kamehameha IV
There is no gas even in the offices, and there are as many rats behind the wainscot as there were Israelites in Egypt.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Although Salt River valley is naturally fertile, owing to the dryness of the climate, there is no grass except a little coarse stuff called sacaton.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones
The leading principle of nonconformity, as the term is now generally employed, to signify a continued separation from the national church of England, is, the sole authority of Jesus Christ as the head and lawgiver of his people.
— from Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian counties by S. Wilton (Samuel Wilton) Rix
There is no great enthusiasm among the gardeners, either.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne
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