As a soldier, he was more solicitous to avoid mistakes than to perform exploits that are brilliant.—Ames.

All the subsequent experience of our race had gone over him with as little permanent effect as [as follows the semi-adverbs as and so in expressing comparison] the passing breeze.—Hawthorne.

Purpose.

We wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty.—Emerson.

Result.

So many thoughts moved to and fro,
That vain it were her eyes to close.
—Coleridge.

I was again covered with water, but not so long but I held it out.—Defoe.

Condition.

A ridicule which is of no import unless the scholar heed it.—Emerson.

There flowers or weeds at will may grow,
So I behold them not.
—Byron.