32 Accordingly, we shall not rest contented with recognising that animals, both in their actions and also in their whole existence, bodily structure and organisation, are manifestations of will; but we shall extend to plants also this immediate knowledge of the essential nature of things which is given to us alone.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

τὸ θεῖον μακαρίζομεν οὐδὲ ἐπ᾽ ἄλλῳ τινὶ τῶν νομιζομένων ἀγαθῶν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅπερ Ὅμηρός φησι (Further, that to make oneself like God as far as possible is nothing else than to acquire such knowledge of the essential nature of things as is attainable by mankind, is evident from the following.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

[pg 365] 12 Nor would the Kings of the earth, nor all which live 310 In the inhabitable world beleeve, That any adversary, any foe Into Ierusalem should enter so.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Hereupon the Romans sent unto them a legion of armed soldiers, which coming into this island, and encountering with the enemies, overthrew a great number of them, and drove the rest out of the frontiers of the country; and so setting the Britons at liberty, counselled them to make a wall, extending all along between the two seas, which might be of force to keep out their evil neighbours, and then returned home with great triumph.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It is otherwise in our European world where culture is, so to speak, introduced under the protection and in presupposition of a spiritual religion, i.e. not of a religion of the imagination, but by presupposing a knowledge of the eternal nature of Spirit and of the absolute end, of the end of man, to be in a spiritual way actual and to posit himself in unity with the absolute spirit.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All were promptly killed or taken except Nat who secreted himself near his late master's home until his capture was accomplished six weeks afterward.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

My knowledge of the events, not important in themselves, but which seem to have the relation of a prelude to the great tragedy, was derived from three persons, Mr. Conkling, Mr. Blaine, and Mr. Marshall Jewell.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

They were at some meeting, a religious gathering I think, where one speaker—rather an effete pessimist—closed a speech in the key of the “Everlasting No,” with the doleful words: “I feel myself weighed down by {36} a sense of the sins of my ancestors.”
— from The eleventh hour in the life of Julia Ward Howe by Maud Howe Elliott

His Cause will rather encompass all the kings of the earth, nay all that hath been created from water and clay....
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

How did I acquire my wonderful knowledge of the exact number of pearls, rubies, diamonds, opals, tiaras, bracelets, necklaces, stomachers, and other gorgeous jewels now in the possession of the smart set?
— from Mrs. Raffles: Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman by John Kendrick Bangs

But though everyone knew of the engagement, no one had suspected the defection.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

We followed the narrow road through the fresh fields of wheat and alfalfa until we struck the desert, and then we took to a dusty trail which leads to a winding valley, where the kings of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth dynasties are being dug up.
— from In Pastures New by George Ade

A sick man, however, was not likely to meet with a very hearty welcome in [32] a London boarding-house; and, in spite of the entreaties of the person who accompanied him, the youth would have had the door shut upon him, had he not roused all his remaining vigour, and assured the keeper of the establishment, not only that he would soon be well, but that he was able to pay for what he might need.
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

Very well the old King of the swamp knew of the eagles’ nest.
— from The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson