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1795, Charles Rollin, The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, 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 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, 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 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, →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 it.
1967, Ralph Schoenman, Bertrand Russell: Philosopher of the Century, →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 this notion (of all nondenumerably many of them) ?