"In the first place" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brand plucked from the burning?' 'When the sermon began,' he says, 'I was certainly a dreadful enemy to God and to all that is good, and one of the most profligate and abandoned young men living; but, by the time it was ended, I was become a new creature. For, in the first place, I was deeply convinced of the great goodness of God towards me in all my life; particularly in that He had given His Son to die for me. I had also a far clearer view of all my sins, particularly my base ingratitude towards Him. These discoveries ...
— A Handful of Stars - Texts That Have Moved Great Minds • Frank W. Boreham
... perhaps have found it a little difficult to explain or define to a foreigner. Fortunately all foreigners coming to Rome would know what was meant by the senate, the great council which received envoys from all nations outside the Empire; and the stranger might be told in the first place that all members of that august assembly, with their families, were considered as elevated above the equestrian order, and as forming the main body of the aristocracy proper. But if the informant were by chance a ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
... interrupted the lieutenant. "In the name of his serene highness, the duke, I command you in the first place to lead me and my followers to the presence ...
— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds
... have drawn lots in the first place," said Babbie. "Now if it only doesn't rain on Thursday and spoil the full moon! Tell the others, won't you, girls? I'm due at the Science Building this ...
— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde
... behaved heroically, and won Washington's admiration by their bravery; but the English soldiers acted like cowards. Panic-stricken in the first place, they did not recover from their consternation during the engagement. The unearthly yells of the savages, which they had never heard before, seemed to terrify them even more than the whistling of bullets. They lost self-control, disregarded the orders of their officers, and ran hither and thither ...
— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer
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