6 Metaphors for deliberation

Their deliberations were indecent, and their intentions seditious.

In crises that did not admit of deliberation, his instinctive courage guided his behavior, but such crises belong to military experience, and in civil life careful deliberation was his rule.

If it were said, "The deliberation of the former was a seasonable chock upon the fiery temper of the latter" the words former and latter would seem to me not to be pronouns, but adjectives, each relating to the noun commander understood after it. OBS.

Deliberation is the alternation of different appetites; the final, victorious one which immediately precedes action is called will.

All deliberation is to him a kind of sloth and freezing of action, and it shall burn him rather than take cold.

If, therefore, a statement of a case, whether it be the whole statement or some portion of it, be a repelling of an accusation, then deliberation and demonstration are neither a statement of a case, nor any portion of such statement.

6 Metaphors for  deliberation