"Pass judgment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... social or political problems, so a man who has done capital work as a tourist observer in little-visited cities and along remote highways must beware of regarding himself as being thereby rendered fit for genuine wilderness work or competent to pass judgment on the men who do such work. To cross the Andes on mule-back along the regular routes is a feat comparable to the feats of the energetic tourists who by thousands traverse the mule trails in out-of-the-way nooks of Switzerland. An ordinary ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt
... long-delayed girlhood. You give me affectionate glimpses of the woman God meant you to be some day. It can only be a man who works such a miracle in an ascetic of nineteen years. When the lucky fellow gathers courage to speak, I shall be glad to pass judgment on him." ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... big subject, Berkeley," he said, in conclusion, "and I don't see that you or I have any call to pass judgment on it, or to lay down arbitrary lines, saying this is righteous, that is unrighteous. We may have our own thoughts about the matter—we must have, but we've no right to lop or stretch other people to fit them. Princess is a pure woman, a noble woman, better, a thousand-fold, ...
— Princess • Mary Greenway McClelland
... offer I made a while ago," says Gunnar; "but now, methinks, I have a greater matter to pass judgment on." ...
— Njal's Saga • Unknown Icelanders
... and expressed their opinions with no little care—saying that they were ignorant of what had passed in the sessions of the royal court; and that, as it was to be inferred that the royal Audiencia had informed his Majesty of everything, they could not pass judgment on those acts. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898--Volume 39 of 55 • Various
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