To roam over the world, by land and sea, gathering information, recording it, Collating it, extending it, condensing it, and publishing it, for the benefit of the readers of the Evergreen Isle, is my chief terrestrial joy.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne
To think profoundly, it is indispensable that a man should have read down to his own starting point, and have read as a Collating student to the particular stage at which he himself takes up the subject.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
To compare the variae lectiones of two manuscripts concerning a fourteenth-century skirmish is good, it has all the excitement of the chase; but to be Collating the field note-book of a living Hun with the dossier of a contemporary Justice de Paix, this is better.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan