"Prevaricator" Quotes from Famous Books
... Chief President, and that that magistrate had blamed it, saying the cause was indubitably ours, and that he had always thought so! If he thought so, why oppose us so long? and if he did not think so, what a prevaricator was he to reply with this flattery, so as to be in accord with the King? The judges themselves were ashamed of their verdict, and excused themselves for it on the ground of their compassion for the state in which M. de Luxembourg would ... — The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon |