There is no necessity that the gaining of such information should interfere with intellectual acquirement or even elegant accomplishment.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

"Why, you see, he hates to travel, and I hate to keep still, so we each suit ourselves, and there is no trouble.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But, however, there is nothing of crime can be laid to my charge, and the worst that can be is to refund my L500 profit, and who can help it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was play then, but there came a time when I was truly grateful that I not only possessed the will but the power to cook wholesome food for my little girls, and help myself when I could no longer afford to hire help.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

‘There is no “of course” in the case, Sam,’ said Mr. Pickwick, gradually breaking into a smile, in spite of the uneasiness which Sam’s obstinacy had given him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[ 30 ] You often hear a sweet seductive call: If wise, you haste towards it not at all;--
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

So that from the practise of those times, there can no argument be drawn, that the right of Supremacy in Religion was not in the Kings, unlesse we place it in the Prophets; and conclude, that because Hezekiah praying to the Lord before the Cherubins, was not answered from thence, nor then, but afterwards by the Prophet Isaiah, therefore Isaiah was supreme Head of the Church; or because Josiah consulted Hulda the Prophetesse, concerning the Book of the Law, that therefore neither he, nor the High Priest, but Hulda the Prophetesse had the Supreme authority in matter of Religion; which I thinke is not the opinion of any Doctor.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But yet this property has no necessary connexion with that complex idea, or any part of it: and there is no more reason to think that malleableness depends on that colour, weight, and hardness, than that colour or that weight depends on its malleableness.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end, where there is no authority to decide between the contenders) is one great reason of men's putting themselves into society, and quitting the state of nature: for where there is an authority, a power on earth, from which relief can be had by appeal, there the continuance of the state of war is excluded, and the controversy is decided by that power.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The sixth form stood close by the door on the left, some thirty in number, mostly great big grown men, as Tom thought, surveying them from a distance with awe; the fifth form behind them, twice their number, and not quite so big.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

And there is Nurse as well as Annette.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

That is now a provincial High Street beside its lordlier compeer; but I remember when Broadway stormed and swarmed with busy life.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

Do come; there is nothing to hinder you, is there?”
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 5, October 27, 1900 Marion Marlowe Entrapped; or, The Victim of Professional Jealousy by Lurana Sheldon

And having such a mass of acknowledged truth in the mathematical and physical, not to speak of the moral sciences, the moderns have certainly no reason to acquiesce in the statement that truth is appearance only, or that there is no difference between appearance and truth.
— from Theaetetus by Plato

It is, at least, this indifference not speculative theories, so just, so rational, so advantageous for states, that sound philosophy may propose to introduce, gradually, upon the earth.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

This is not so.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

There is no question of party-feeling, then, the reader will understand, in what has here been said.
— from Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

Je 2 ‘17 700w “There is not a grain of humility in this new apostle.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

The engineers had reconnoitred the ground as well as possible, and had acquired all the information necessary to base proper orders both for approach and attack.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

There is nothing to accent it.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain