Buckle
Cited as Buckle. — 19 quotations
Ally
Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally.
Amenity
A sweetness and amenity of temper.
Appetite
Men must have appetite before they will eat.
Avocation
An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture.
Balance
The order and balance of the country were destroyed.
Debar
Their wages were so low as to debar them, not only from the comforts but from the common decencies of civilized life.
Declaration
In 1776 the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
Deficiency
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
Dismember
By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire.
Disport
They could disport themselves.
Draff
The draff and offal of a bygone age.
Equipoise
The equipoise to the clergy being removed.
Frenzied
The people frenzied by centuries of oppression.
Grade
They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade.
Insensate
The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen.
jocose
He must beware lest his letter should contain anything like jocoseness; since jesting is incompatible with a holy and serious life.
Mainstay
The great mainstay of the Church.
March
This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs.
Ridicule
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.