Citations:aqcuire

English citations of aqcuire

• 1795, Charles Rollin, The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians‎^[1], 9th edition, volume III, →OCLC, page 258:

  He did not conſider, that putting them ſo often in mind* of his ſervices, was in a manner reproaching them with their having forgot them, which was not very obliging ; and he ſeemed not to know, that the ſureſt way to aqcuire^{[sic – meaning acquire]} applauſe, is to leave the bellowing of it to others, and to reſolve to do ſuch things only as are praiſe-worthy ; and that a frequent repetition of one's own virtue and exalted actions, is ſo far from appeaſing envy, that it only inflames it.

• 1927 May 3, “Permission Given Railroad to Acquire Two Lines in Washington and Idaho”, in United States Daily‎^[2], volume II, number 52, Washington, D. C., →OCLC, page 8 644, column 2:

  Authority has been granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission, in Finance Docket No. 6014, for the Spokane Coeur d'Alene & Palous Railway Company to aqcuire^{[sic – meaning acquire]} and operate the line of the Spokane & Eastern Railway and Power Company and the Inland Empire Railroad.

• 1963, Oskar Kokoschka, quotee, Letters of the Great Artists‎^[3], →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 268–269:

  Individually, no one will see his way before him. The individual will have to rely on hearsay for his knowledge, on second-hand experience, on information inspired by scientific inquiry only. None will have a vision of the continuity of life, because of the lack of spiritual means to aqcuire^{[sic – meaning acquire]} it.

• 1967, Ralph Schoenman, Bertrand Russell: Philosopher of the Century‎^[4], →LCCN, →OCLC, page 277:

  The relevance to Russell's position is immediate. If 'logic' really is the theory of, among other things, the totality of all predicates of integers, then just where did we aqcuire^{[sic – meaning acquire]} this notion (of all nondenumerably many of them) ?