Formerly humble huts stood here. [ Virgil ]

There were such black swans formerly as truth and honesty. [ Proverb ]

Flattery, which was formerly a vice, is now grown into a custom. [ Publius Syrus ]

Profane eloquence is transferred from the bar, where it formerly reigned, to the pulpit, where it never ought to come. [ Bruyere ]

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Hunting is a relic of the barbarous spirit that thirsted formerly for human blood, but is now content with the blood of birds and animals. [ Bovee ]

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war. [ Bovee ]

As a tract of country narrowed in the distance expands itself when we approach, thus the way to our near grave appears to us as long as it did formerly when we were far off. [ Richter ]

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. [ Gladstone ]