"Satisfy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sable and those of the Abbe Esprit—the latter contained in a Jansenist volume called "The Falsity of Human Virtues"—were published independently, but in the same year, 1678. Any one who has the patience to refer to these works may satisfy himself that Mme de Sable, as an artist, is superior to Esprit, but immeasurably inferior to La Rochefoucauld, who is the one ...
— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse
... of knowledge which is necessary to constitute a freeman. If every dunce should be a slave, your servitude is inevitable; and richly do you deserve the lash for your obtuseness. Our white population, too, would furnish blockheads enough to satisfy all the classical kidnappers ...
— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison
... leave now, but I shall come again soon, and I will tell you all. You shall carry words that will satisfy ...
— The Texan Star - The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty • Joseph A. Altsheler
... less than two farthings I will throw Perseus to the dogs, and so our differences will be ended." This, then, made me anxious, and induced me to entrust Girolamo degli Albizzi with the negotiations, telling him anything would satisfy me provided I retained the good graces of the Duke. That honest fellow was excellent in all his dealings with soldiers, especially with the militia, who are for the most part rustics; but he had no taste for statuary, and therefore could not understand its conditions. Consequently, when ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... determined upon accomplishing the bloody work they had entered the Territory to perform. Nothing but the destruction of Lawrence and the other Free State towns, the massacre of the Free State residents, and the appropriation of their lands and other property, could satisfy them. ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler
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