And though all kinds of passion, even the most disagreeable, such as grief and anger, are observed, when excited by poetry, to convey a satisfaction, from a mechanism of nature, not easy to be explained: Yet those more elevated or softer affections have a peculiar influence, and please from more than one cause or principle.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Every other kind of perfection, even the warrior's, is different in rank from that of the priests.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In truth this unconsciousness belongs to every kind of perfection: even the mathematician carries out his calculations unconsciously....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I'm only a wretched Philistine, and I've no doubt Leloir has perhaps more knowledge of painting even than Machard.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Some kinds of parrots erect their feathers; and I have seen this action in the Cassowary, when angered at the sight of an Ant-eater.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

This, then, was one of the things that young men "went in" for when released from the official social routine; this was the kind of "previous engagement" that so frequently caused them to disappoint the hopes of anxious hostesses.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

While it is rising it has been pronounced criminal for kings or prefects even to sail upon its waters.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But the soldiers, filled with confidence, and enriched with every kind of provisions, eagerly turned Molon returns to his camp.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The stately kings of Persia, exchanging their vain pomp for more genuine greatness, freely mingled with the humblest but most useful of their subjects.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The question now arises in what kind of productive enterprises these funds are to be used.’
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

Napoleon returned to Dresden, the Emperor of Austria quitted Vienna and repaired to Bohemia, and the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia established themselves at Schweidnitz.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, incarnating the Christian precepts, in an age of rapine and homicide, doing a thousand deeds of love and charity among the obscure and forsaken—deeds of which there shall never be human chronicle, but a leaf or two, perhaps, in the recording angel's book; hiving precious honey from the few flowers of gentle, art which bloom upon a howling wilderness; holding up the light of science over a stormy sea; treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning which become visible, as the extinct Megatherium of an elder world reappears after the gothic deluge; and now, careering in helm and hauberk with the other ruffians, bandying blows in the thickest of the fight, blasting with bell, book, and candle its trembling enemies, while sovereigns, at the head of armies, grovel in the dust and offer abject submission for the kiss of peace; exercising the same conjury over ignorant baron and cowardly hind, making the fiction of apostolic authority to bind and loose, as prolific in acres as the other divine right to have and hold; thus the force of cultivated intellect, wielded by a chosen few and sanctioned by supernatural authority, becomes as potent as the sword.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Any kind of physical exercise then which, while developing the muscles of the arm, for instance, throws undue strain upon the heart or involves the fixation 104 of the chest for a considerable period—as occurs in various feats of strength, whether with weights or upon bars or the like—is ipso facto to be condemned.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

Don't you know old Peter?" exclaimed the cook, apparently wounded at my want of recognition of him.
— from Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic

With this Kind of Poem, every Thing that is epigrammatical, satirical, or sublime, is inconsistent.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

As the preservation and increase of all species of wild birds, animals, and fishes, and the prevention of their destruction at unseasonable times, are the first duties of a sportsman, the killing of pigeons ere they have raised their broods is on a par with shooting ducks and snipe in spring, and is excusable only because the feeling of the people does not require the enactment of thoroughly appropriate laws; and while it prevents the protection of the latter, makes the preservation of the former—which is a comparatively valueless bird—scarcely worth the trouble.
— from The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

What kind of physical exercise tends to strengthen the heart?
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

In order that the country should not again be so easily conquered, the king of Prussia enrolled the permitted number of men for one year, then dismissed that group, and enrolled another of the same size, and so on.
— from A School History of the Great War by Charles Augustin Coulomb