They were no longer regarded as containing within themselves some "form" or "species" of universal kind in a disguised mask of sense which could be stripped off by rational thought.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And may be not, said he; for if you had had that pretty face, some of us keen fox-hunters should have found you out; and, in spite of your romantic notions, (which then, too, perhaps, would not have had so strong a place in your mind,) might have been more happy with the ploughman's wife, than I have been with my mother's Pamela.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

In the search of universal knowledge, Nushirvan was informed, that the moral and political fables of Pilpay, an ancient Brachman, were preserved with jealous reverence among the treasures of the kings of India.
— 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

it is to you shame to say of us knights of Cornwall dishonour, for it may happen a Cornish knight may match you.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Then was there a damosel of Queen Morgan in a chamber by King Arthur, and when she heard King Arthur speak of that shield, then she spake openly unto King Arthur.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

If it cannot be so, we had better not risk a battle; and then it is easy to see that nothing would be left us but to shelter ourselves under King Olaf's mercy, however hard it might be, as then we would be less guilty than we now may appear to him to be.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He would probably have described his method as proceeding by regular steps to a system of universal knowledge, which inferred the parts from the whole rather than the whole from the parts.
— from The Republic by Plato

Every person they meet, every circumstance of the day, adds something to their store of useful knowledge or personal power.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Some of us knew that if the boy were dragged out at once he might possibly be resuscitated, but we never thought of that.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He was beginning to enjoy the interest he awakened as the storehouse of undivulged knowledge.
— from The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson

I could not help laughing a little to myself as I went out of the room to tell Patience to bring in the tea, and yet that sentence of Uncle Keith touched me somehow.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 by Various

I read that you will marry your Arthur, and become a happy wife and a happier mother; that your life will be one long story of unassuming kindness, and that, when at last you die, you will become a sacred memory in many hearts.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

These pots are formed on the principle of a common wire mousetrap, but with the entrance at the top; they are baited with pieces of fish, generally of some otherwise useless kind, and these are fixed into the pots by means of a skewer.
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper

Footsteps sounded, and the clang of doors, and the shriek of unwilling keys in rusty locks, and the hurrying traffic of the street without, softened by the moist atmosphere, was like the fading echo of following feet upon the stairs.
— from Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray

I think she suspected that some of us knew more than we cared to tell her about—her husband's death."
— from The Avenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Then he said that he was very glad to have met us and that the sight of Umslopogaas killing Rezu was a spectacle that he would remember with pleasure all his life.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Every place in the crust that was punctured with the staff is slowly changing into a cauldron like the one at his feet and the traveller experiences a sensation of uneasiness, knowing, as he does, that in a brief time a new line of cauldrons will be in operation and for the first time he fully realizes the insecurity of his position and he longs for the solidity of the lava ridge where he left the hobbled ponies.
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell

The duties of his present situation afforded Paul not only time and leisure to keep up his accustomed religious exercises, but, in addition, he was able to revise what he had previously studied, and to add considerably to his stock of useful knowledge.
— from The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. by Hugh Quigley