"Signer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... selection of an "Expiring Frog" as a subject for poetical composition has lately been surpassed by a new Italian poet. The latter, Signer Giovanni Rizzi, has just published at Milan a small volume of sonnets, chiefly ironical in character, in which he gives vent to his disgust at the positive and materialistic tendencies of the present day. The theme of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... replied: "I know the danger; the cause is just; I have put my faith in God." In 1777 he was elected chaplain of Congress, and held the office (except when Congress met in New York) until the capital was removed to Washington. Francis Hopkinson, a distinguished signer of the Declaration of Independence, and other loyal sons of the country, were among those who elected ...
— Five Sermons • H.B. Whipple
... appears to teach that any individual, as such, has a moral right to adopt any hypothesis live enough to appeal to his individual will. One has only to call to mind the extraordinary assortment of guests collected by Signer Papini in his novel pragmatic "hotel." [Footnote: Ibid.] Can such, by any human ingenuity, be moulded into anything ...
— A Handbook of Ethical Theory • George Stuart Fullerton
... lie two grandsons of John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence. (Their names are respectively Geo. M. and John H. Hancock) and their eminence hangs on their having ...
— Quaint Epitaphs • Various
... In Heaven. I pray you, Signer Senator, Speak not of that; you are a man of office, So is the Doge; he has a son at stake Now, at this moment, and I have a husband, Or had; they are there within, or were at least An hour since, face to face, as judge and culprit: ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
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