94 adjectives to describe quotation

" And Rose Standish immediately added the familiar quotation from the Geneva Bible: "For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

When I say it is too full of Scripture, I mean it is too full of direct quotations; no book can have too much of silent Scripture in it.

So far from accepting the bishop's view, the Countess urged home upon him her opinion of his duty, enforcing her argument with such apt quotations from the Bible, the Articles, and the Homilies, that at length he left her presence openly regretting the fact that he had ever laid his hands upon Whitefield's head.

Of course there are many minor ones which are merely verbal, such, for instance, as their expunging the scriptural quotation of "King of kings, Lord of lords," from the prayer for the President, probably out of deference to the prejudices of the Republicans, for which omission they have partially atoned by the substitution of the grander expression of "only Ruler of the Universe," in lieu of the more limited term "only Ruler of Princes."

"An undevout astronomer is mad" was one of his favorite quotations.

6. Fill your head with classical quotations, and trot them out on all occasions, whether discussing a bill for the diffusion of beans among the Indians, or the Alabama claims.

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I have also, as hitherto, not assumed an absolutely strict standard for admission to the first class of 'exact' quotations.

Parallel quotations from the Old Testament and the New Testament, selected & arranged by Joseph Howard Gray.

One of Eveena's favourite quotations bore the unmistakable stamp of Zveltic mysticism: "Symbols that invert the sense Form the Seal of Providence; Contradiction gives the key, Time unlocks the mystery.

Revised edition of 1917, omitting illustrative quotations from literature, not so good as editions before that date.

Another time he read out all the Gospel of St. John, because Biblical quotations are very emphatic in a court of justice.

Among the numerous paraphrastic quotations, there are some that have specially the appearance of having been made from memory, such as Acts vii.

(All these were supported by appropriate quotations of Scripture.)

Evidently there was a most searching examination of the Scriptures preparatory to the work; and yet the ample quotation, often fresh and felicitous, appears to be made to sustain a preconceived opinion, or, more strictly, an emotion.

Clerambault was astonished when he read them, he hardly knew his own ideas again, but nevertheless, he could not altogether deny them, for, buried among Thouron's commentaries, he found literal and accurate quotations from his letters.

Footnote 181: A few slight changes and omissions from the original text, as given in Wheatley's edition of Pepys (London, 1892, 9 vols.), are not indicated in these brief quotations.

He has set down the impression that a modern might receive, at the first blush, without having given any more extended study to the method of the patristic quotations.

To be sure, the lady seemed especially fond of himparticularly so in his absencewhen, she made herself ridiculous by frequent quotations of what had been said by her "beloved husband, Mr. Wyatt."

There are two passages of some length which are without doubt evangelical quotations, though whether they are derived from the Canonical Gospels or not may be doubted.

The real truth, if the question is about vicious people, can be attained by other means, by probable reproduction of the state of their souls, thoughts, deeds, finally by the run of their conversation, but not by verbal quotation of their swearings and most horrid words.

It is the devil, who, in a garbled quotation from the Scriptures, lays down, in unlimited terms, the proposition, that God will keep his children.

With which reflection I rose from the table, and, adopting the advice contained in the spurious Johnsonian quotation proceeded to "take a walk in Fleet Street" before settling down for the evening. CHAPTER VI SIDELIGHTS

UNDER RULE XVII.OF DEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.

These examples, and thousands more as simple and worthless, are among the pretended quotations by which this excellent man, thought "to promote the cause of virtue, as well as of learning!" OBS.

94 adjectives to describe  quotation