Betty I did long to see, and she is indifferent pretty, but not what the world did speak of her; but I am mighty glad to have one so pretty of our kindred.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The title of King of Arms, or, as it was more anciently written, King of Heralds, was no doubt originally given to the chief or principal officer, who presided over the heralds of a kingdom, or some principal province, which heraldic writers formerly termed marches ; or else the title was conferred upon the officer of arms attendant upon some particular order of knighthood.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

As our business at present is properly with the synthetical part of our knowledge only, we shall always be on our guard not to transgress this inviolable principle; but at the same time not to expect from it any direct assistance in the establishment of the truth of any synthetical proposition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

These boards can be made of other sizes so as to fit larger or smaller pelts of other kind.
— from Steel Traps Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them, Also Chapters on Care of Pelts, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

When led of his own accord to seek other society than ours, he could by no means content himself with the companionship of staid practical persons, who on account of his latent worth would have readily countenanced, and with the least opportunity even served him, but he invariably paid his court to adventurers; such creatures, for instance, as seedy 'professors' of one kind or another, who, in the inevitable shawl and threadbare suit of black, were constantly dismounting at the village tavern, with proposals either to 'lecture' on something, or 'teach' somewhat, as the case might happen to be, and who, having no affinity whatever with the brawny, awkward Viking who fondly hung on their shabby-genteel skirts, amused themselves at his greenness, or pooh-pooh'd him altogether, as they saw fit.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

ADELPHI SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF KENSINGTON RHYMES
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

And thus with faith in wisdom and goodness,—that is to say, in God,—the earthquake-defying, rock-foundation of our hopes is laid; the sun-greeting dome which crowns the most superb palace of our knowledge is builded.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

"In fact, my friend, we are now so positive of our knowledge of the Nipe's mind that we are prepared to enter into the next phase of our program.
— from Anything You Can Do! by Randall Garrett

Under such circumstances, public opinion could not fail to make known its disproval, and if this would not suffice, punishments of one kind or another would be resorted to, in order to suppress this and similar immoderations.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

[213] SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF KING LEAR'S WIFE and other plays.
— from King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë by Gordon Bottomley

Astronomy, cause of the slow progress of our knowledge of, 78 .
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel