"Proposition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Adrian, with some difficulty recovering the breath which his astonishment had taken away, "you do not think of embracing that black proposition?" ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... by the solid rocks protecting, from the ravages of the floods and sea, the loose materials of the land. It will therefore be proper to show, that this author's argument does not go to prove his proposition in the terms which he has given it, which is, that those sloped mountains are to last for ever, but only that these causes, which he has so well described, make the destruction of the mountains become ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... to Mr. Shaw, but he would not sell. He was preparing to erect a handsome country-place, and he did not want to alter his plans. Courteously at first, then somewhat scathingly he declined to discuss the proposition with her agents. After two months of pressure of the most tiresome persistency, he lost his temper and sent a message to his inquisitors that suddenly terminated all negotiations. Afterward, when he learned that heir client ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close of a summer's day, but in the mean time might be the subject of question, of hypothesis, of debate. Art and philosophy, literature and science, would fasten like bees on that one proposition that had the honey of probability in it, and be the more eager because their enjoyment would end with sunset. Our impulses, our spiritual activities, no more adjust themselves to the idea of their future reality than the beating of our ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke
... this table, and my position as master of Palomar. Of course, I'm not so optimistic as to think you folks would accept of my hospitality for a year, so I suggest that you become what our British cousins call 'paying guests,' albeit I had never expected to fall low enough to make such a dastardly proposition. Really, it abases me. It's never been done before ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
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