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so coming have a competent knowledge
A man that will come to God by Christ aright must needs, precedent to his so coming, have a competent knowledge of things of this kind.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

She could have a certain kind
She could have a certain kind of friends; but she shuddered when she realized what kind they would be.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

seen cannot have a complete knowledge
Besides man, as we have seen, cannot have a complete knowledge of the sublunar order, and hence it is not likely that he can control its laws to the extent of changing them.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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