19 examples of knox's in sentences
(Cf. R. Knox's Spiritual Aeneid, p. 102.)
Yet Mr. Knox's misinterpretations of the facts are taking root in many minds that do not share his fierce hypochondria and hunger for bitter herbs.
That the American has lost somewhat in animal resources is incontestable; but Mr. Knox's ever-implied premise, "The animal is the man," from which his Jeremiad derives its plaint, is but a provincial paper-currency, of very local estimation, and can never, like gold and silver, pass by weight in the world's marts of thought.
As soon as I see that look in your eye I remembered 'bout the tea-fight over at Knox's Church last night and how they'd be sure to be selling off what's left, for the benefit of the heathen."
Historical novel History, of England, Macaulay's; of Frederick the Great, Carlyle's; of Henry VIII, Bacon's; of the Reformation in Scotland, Knox's; of the Wortd, Raleigh's Hnæf (n[e=]f)
The inn was full; but lodgings were provided for us at the house of the professor of rhetorick, a man of elegant manners, who showed us, in the morning, the poor remains of a stately cathedral, demolished in Knox's reformation, and now only to be imagined, by tracing its foundation, and contemplating the little ruins that are left.
William Burke and William Hare, the body-snatchers and murderers of Edinburgh, who killed persons to sell their corpses to Knox's school of anatomy.
Cables were dispatched to Europe pointing out the danger to French prestige which General Knox's mission entailed.
These armies were ill-equipped and badly disciplinednot the kind of armies which would have been raised had General Knox's plans been allowed to developbut they performed their duty, they captured Perm, and had increased to over 200,000 before General Ganin appeared on the scene.
It were too long to narrate their adventures at length, or to describe in detail how Johnson grieved over traces of the iconoclastic zeal of Knox's disciples, seriously investigated stories of second-sight, cross-examined and brow-beat credulous believers in the authenticity of Ossian, and felt his piety grow warm among the ruins of Iona.
Robert Knox's own character must have changed greatly before he could have doubted the sincerity of any one whom he had known as long, as intimately, and as favorably as he had known Philip Alston.
"Doctor, this is a young friend of minea member of Judge Knox's family.
Agreeably to this rule, he letters his work, "Peirce' Grammar," and condemns, as bad English, the following examples and all others like them: "James Otis's letters, General Gates's command, General Knox's appointment, Gov. Meigs's promptness, Mr. Williams's oration, The witness's deposition."Ib., p. 60.
When McHenry wrote to him about proceeding with the organization of the army, he replied that he was willing provided Knox's precedence was acknowledged, and he added that the five New England States would not patiently submit to the humiliation of having Knox's claim disregarded.
When McHenry wrote to him about proceeding with the organization of the army, he replied that he was willing provided Knox's precedence was acknowledged, and he added that the five New England States would not patiently submit to the humiliation of having Knox's claim disregarded.
94; v. 375; King Bob, v. 374; Kinghorn, v. 56; Kirkwall, C. J. Fox member for it, iv. 266, n. 2; known to each other, ii. 473; Knox's 'reformations,' v. 61-2; Kyle, v. 107, n. 1; lady-like woman, v. 157; Lanark, ii. 64; iii. 116, 359; land permanently unsaleable, ii. 414, n. 1; landlords 'a high situation,' i. 409; land-tax, ii.
See Knox's Essays, Number 50.
See also Knox's United States Notes; Simmer's History of American Currency, and text-books on Political Economy.
We went to see John Knox's house, and although Mr. Knox was pretty hard on vanities and frivolities, he didn't mind having a good house over his head, with woodwork on the walls and ceilings that wasn't any more necessary than the back buttons on his coat.