How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown! Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.
How many causes that can plead for themselves 40 in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter! Carlyle.
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.
How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! Middleton.
How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day! Rousseau.
How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Holmes.
How many people make themselves abstract 45 to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. Joubert.
How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection! Mer. of Venice, v. 1.
How many things, just and unjust, have no higher sanction than custom! Ter.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Cowper.