But this kind of pleasure pertains to the novels, in so far as they advance me in the knowledge of man, and not in the least to day-dreaming—the veritable pleasure of novels.
— from On Love by Stendhal

More; he irritated it, with a kind of perverse pleasure akin to that which a sick man sometimes has in irritating a wound upon his body.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

A neighborhood like that has all kinds of people passing through it at all hours of the day or night, so you get businesses that cater to every need, you get people around all the time, acting like eyes on the street.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Thus there are as many kinds of desire, as there are kinds of pleasure, pain, love, &c., consequently (by what has been shown) there are as many kinds of desire, as there are kinds of objects whereby we are affected.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

And they brought in a lot of the stuff they'd got off the brig and, among other stuff, what I was a bit relieved to see, the kind of pneumatic pump that was used for the compressed air affair, and then a lot of chaps and girls came in and danced about me something disgraceful.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And therefore the first Founders, and Legislators of Common-wealths amongst the Gentiles, whose ends were only to keep the people in obedience, and peace, have in all places taken care; First, to imprint in their minds a beliefe, that those precepts which they gave concerning Religion, might not be thought to proceed from their own device, but from the dictates of some God, or other Spirit; or else that they themselves were of a higher nature than mere mortalls, that their Lawes might the more easily be received: So Numa Pompilius pretended to receive the Ceremonies he instituted amongst the Romans, from the Nymph Egeria: and the first King and founder of the Kingdome of Peru, pretended himselfe and his wife to be the children of the Sunne: and Mahomet, to set up his new Religion, pretended to have conferences with the Holy Ghost, in forme of a Dove.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He can therefore decide on war for the most trifling reasons, as if it were a kind of pleasure party.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The animal is not typical of any particular time period, or associated with any special kind of projectile point.
— from Early Man in the New World by Joseph A. Hester

[28] Vico might however have found thoughts of this kind in various Renaissance philosophers, not only in Ficino: among others, in Girolamo Cardano, who contrasts divine and human knowledge, though with a different conclusion; and restricts the one to finite objects ("for understanding is brought about by a kind of proportion, proportione quaderni fit, and there is no proportion between the infinite and the finite"), denying that man can know God, for as Vico said later in almost the same words, "if I knew God, I should be God," si scirem Deus essem.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

In nine cases out of ten such customs are not inspired by any exact knowledge of physiological phenomena at all.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

I will follow their example, and from this time my title shall run thus: 'Frederick, by the grace of God, King of Prussia, Prince-Elector of Brandenburg, Possessor of Voltaire, etc. etc.'"
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

For one thing, most of them have some kind of private property and the abundance of all types of products together with the elimination of queues and shortages served to provide a foretaste of the "capitalist heaven".
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

She told me that she was a kind of Pied Piper of Hamlin.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

They imagine, that although beauty in general is annexed to no certain measures common to the several kinds of pleasing plants and animals; yet that there is a certain proportion in each species absolutely essential to the beauty of that particular kind.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke