Bolingbroke

Cited as Bolingbroke. — 10 quotations

Artilize

If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature.

Both

He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.

Coalite

Let them continue to coalite.

Cushion

Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity.

Luster

Both of us have closed the tenth luster.

Repudiate

His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward.

Resent

The good prince King James . . . bore dishonorably what he might have resented safely.

Synthetic

Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments.

Tone

The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, . . . drag the mind down . . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business.

Victory

Victory may be honorable to the arms, but shameful to the counsels, of a nation.