"Refuser" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... que de veritable eloquence; il entraine. Son style est chatie et correct, quoique un peu dur et sec; son ton est grave et soutenu. On n'y apprend rien de nouveau, et cependant il attache et interesse. Malgre son incroyable temerite, on ne peut refuser a l'auteur la qualite d'homme de bien fortement epris du bonheur de sa race et de la prosperite des societes; mais je pense que ses bonnes intentions seraient une sauvegarde bien faible contre les mandements et les requisitions." This is a clear and fair account of a book ...
— Baron d'Holbach • Max Pearson Cushing
... than any less seemly feeling, of the sudden death of the Emperor Nicholas, former guest and fervent friend of the Queen—for whom she seems to have retained a lingering, rueful regard—grasper at an increase of territory, disturber of the peace of Europe, dogged refuser of all mediation. He had an attack of influenza, but the real cause of his death is said to have been bitter disappointment and mortification at his failure to drive the allies out of the Crimea. The "Generals, January and February," on whom he had counted ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler
... to be a covenant refuser is a sin that makes the times perilous; to be foederis nescius, or infoederabilis. For the understanding of this, you must know that there are two sorts of covenants, there are devilish and hellish ...
— The Covenants And The Covenanters - Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation • Various
... que j'exige de toi, ma fille, c'est de ne te determiner a le refuser qu'avec connoissance de cause. Attends encore. Tu me remercieras du delai que je ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... liberte en a disparu; elle devient une sorte de physique socials. C'est l'element personnel de l'histoire qui en fait la realite.—VACHEROT, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1869, iv. 215. Demander la liberte pour soi et la refuser aux autres, c'est la definition du despotisme.—LABOULAYE, 4th December 1874. Les causes justes profitent de tout, den bonnes intentions comme des mauvaises, des calculs personnels comme den devouemens courageux, de la demence, enfin, comme de ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton |
