Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief; how much, in a generation or two, will twenty-seven millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate? Carlyle.
Not one of our faculties that it is not a delight to exercise. W. R. Greg.
Not one of our senses that, in its healthy state, is not an avenue to enjoyment. W. R. Greg.
Not one word of any book is readable by you, except so far as your mind is one with its author's; and not merely his words like your words, but his thoughts like your thoughts. Ruskin.
Not only all common speech, but science, poetry itself, is no other, if thou consider it, than right naming. Carlyle.
Not only has the unseen world a reality, but 5 the only reality; the rest being, not metaphorically, but literally and in scientific strictness, "a show." Carlyle.
Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us; I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. Carlyle.
Not so easily can a man tear up the roots of his old life, and transplant himself into a new soil and a foreign atmosphere. Ed.
Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, rouses the flock to fly and follow. Chinese Pr.