|
Among the Romans, and also among barbarians, such as the Celts and Persians, there is no trace of such attachments existing in any noble or virtuous form.
— from Symposium by Plato
But this is not the only source of the exalted rank, among human obligations, of those maxims of equality and impartiality, which, both in popular estimation and in that of the most enlightened, are included among the precepts of justice.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
But this is not the only sin upon us.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand
There is nothing that ought so much to be recommended to youth as activity and vigilance our life is nothing but movement.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
Now, that is not the only singularity of Gottfried's structure, although it is the only one that would appeal to the untrained mind.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
There are no tricks; there is no throwing of shades in masses; it is all at first painfully real, overwhelming, needs good nerves to look at it.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
There is no touch of satire which strikes deeper than his quiet remark that the greater part of the precepts of Christ are more at variance with the lives of ordinary Christians than the discourse of Utopia 12 .
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
It is certain that there is no thought of spiritual beings, and in the course of our exposition we have not even had occasion to pronounce the words, spirits, genii or divine personalities.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
And here we cannot but think it necessary to offer some better proof than the incidents of an idle tale, to vindicate the melancholy representation of manners which has been just laid before the reader.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
There is no touch of satire which strikes deeper than his quiet remark that the greater part of the precepts of Christ are more at variance with the lives of ordinary Christians than the discourse of Utopia ('And yet the most part of them is more dissident from the manners of the world now a days, than my communication was.
— from The Republic by Plato
And suppose these bowls should signify the promises, though the saints, not the promises, are compared to them, because they, not promises, are the subjects of faith; yet it is the promise by our measure of faith in that, that is nourishing to our souls.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan
Yet not in awe, nor in reverence of a superior power; for there is no trepidation of spirit; on the contrary, with cool self-assurance he rants his way through the fiery gloom of hell.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
[164] But let it be noticed, that this is no text of Scripture, nor does our Lord so quote it.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
The story is discredited by some historians—notably Grote—but this is not the only story of a fish swallowing a ring or some other article of value.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky
In these cases it generally happens that the outermost glumes are changed, sometimes, however, even the outer and inner paleæ are wholly unchanged, while there is no trace of squamulæ or of stamens and pistils within them, but in their place is a small shoot with miniature leaves arranged in the ordinary manner.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters
This is not true of seven-step caning, as elsewhere indicated.
— from Seat Weaving by L. Day Perry
There were often secret combinations among a number of candidates, securing a mutual support; but in the present case there is no trace of such an understanding.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon
|