They have confused the meaning of the syllables with that of the letters, and while they have unnecessarily given us two sets of symbols for the keys of the piano, they have left none for the chords of the scales; so that Ut and C are always the same for them; this is not and ought not to be; if so, what is the use of C?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For though there is a difference between the two cases, the one being an individual, the other a whole community, yet the cause of destruction was in both cases the keeping of their plighted troth.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Besides the Balakas, and the numerous branches of the Indo-Medes, many of the sons of Kuru dispersed over these regions: amongst whom we may place Uttara Kuru ( Northern Kurus ) of the Puranas, the Ottorokorrhai of the Greek authors.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And does not Schopenhauer ultimately lay himself open to the objection, that he is quite wrong in regarding himself as a Kantian on this point, that he has absolutely failed to understand in a Kantian sense the Kantian definition of the beautiful—;that the beautiful pleased him as well by means of an interest, by means, in fact, of the strongest and most personal interest of all, that: of the victim of torture who escapes from his torture?—And to come back again to our first question, "What is the meaning of a philosopher paying homage to ascetic ideals?"
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

So too a later mystic theology of the Jews, which had many affinities with the teaching of the Christianized Essenes at Colossæ, was self-designated Kabbala or ‘tradition’, professing to have been handed down orally from the patriarchs.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Then they encouraged the people; and Kalf invited all the men who had any injury to avenge on King Olaf to place themselves under the banner which was advancing against King Olaf's own banner.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The valor and victory of Thomas were arrested by the presence of the Sword of God ; with the knowledge of the peril, the Moslems recovered their ranks, and charged the assailants in the flank and rear.
— 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

ABBOTT, Mr. Keith, on the Persian tumbler pigeon.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

I am aware, that it may be said, more partiality than judgment was evinced in this decision; but there was amongst the number, one whose knowledge of the public taste cannot be disputed, and whose name, affixed as the publisher, may be considered as a passport in itself.
— from The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale by Unknown

If we reflect that all prevision implies a previous knowledge of the probable trend of events, it will be understood that the part played by intelligence consists in becoming imbued with the laws of nature, for the purpose of imitating its [165] workings.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

When the work reached that stage of development that men could be taught repentance, and receive baptism for the remission of sins, who so qualified or who with more propriety could be sent to deliver the keys of the priesthood that is especially appointed to cry repentance and administer baptism than the teacher of repentance and the Baptist?
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

What do we know of the processes that take place in bringing the fertilized egg, freighted with its specific heredity, to its destination—the adult form?
— from Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl by Charles Benedict Davenport

Notwithstanding the efforts everywhere made at that time to promote the diffusion of knowledge, we need only understand correctly the nature and character of the knowledge of the period, to be convinced that neither in substance nor in form was it calculated to become, to any general extent, the property of the popular classes.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

And who wasn’t so upset about the killing of the President that he would be motivated by grief or something like that to do such a thing.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Out of that survey, and the more extended knowledge of the problem that came to the Red Cross folk as they studied it in its details, came the big canteen activities.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

Thirty years ago, when Keeper of the Prison, this door puzzled me considerably, for all attempts to open it on the part of the men I employed failed.
— from The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux