"Take exception" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... those of dull and gloomy temperament can take exception to what I am going to relate in order to illustrate our Blessed Father's delightful gift ...
— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus
... place subordinate to other claims. Without a portion of it there could be no deep religious life—with it, in excess, we fear for the weakness of a partial development. There is so much gain, however, to the poet, that we have no disposition to take exception to the single string of Crashaw. The beauty of the Venus was made up from the charms of many models. So, in our libraries, as in life, we must be content with parcel-work, and take one man's wisdom and another's ...
— Gifts of Genius - A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors • Various
... compared with John Bull, some of us must feel that if he is right the latitude of interpretation of these terms must indeed be oceanic. When he gravely cites the shrewd and ingenious Benjamin Franklin as the most considerable man whom America has yet produced, we must respectfully but firmly take exception to his standard of measurement. When he declares that Abraham Lincoln has no claim to distinction, we feel that the writer must have in mind distinction of a singularly conventional and superficial ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... my own parents'. She has acquired a distinct affection for us, by some means best known to herself; but I should have no objection to that if she would not rearrange my bonnet-strings. That is a fond liberty to which I take exception; but it is one thing to take exception and another to ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan |
