Sempronia is at present the most profest Admirer of the French Nation, but is so modest as to admit her Visitants no further than her Toilet.
She became a profest Enemy to the Arts and Sciences, and scarce ever wrote a Letter to him without wilfully mis-spelling his Name.
I have all along profest myself in this Paper a Promoter of these great Ends; and I flatter my self that I do from Day to Day contribute something to the polishing of Mens Minds: at least my Design is laudable, whatever the Execution may be.
Such also is oftentimes thy desire, which thou hast profest to be so importunate.
VOLT: Grave fathers, She is a creature of a most profest And prostituted lewdness.
PER: No, sir, a spy set on you; And he has made relation to the senate, That you profest to him to have a plot To sell the State of Venice to the Turk.
Great general scholars, excellent physicians, Most admired statesmen, profest favourites, And cabinet counsellors to the greatest princes; The only languaged men of all the world!
Caesar doth wrong His dignity and safety thus to mourn The deserv'd end of so profest a traitor, And doth, by this his lenity, instruct Others as factious to the like offence.
He wrote, and profest to write, merely for the people; and when he pleased others he contented himself.
Nero when he crid O quantus artifex pereo, profest himselfe of our freedome.
O God helpe me, God help me, how long haue you profest apprehension?
Happely You something know: yet I beleeue there comes No countermand: no such example haue we: Besides, vpon the verie siege of Iustice, Lord Angelo hath to the publike eare Profest the contrarie.
Rather reioycing to see another merry, then merrie at anie thing which profest to make him reioice.
I haue profest me thy Friend, and I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of perdurable toughnesse.
How ill did it accord with their profest Purity and Godliness, after they had strain'd at so many Gnats, to swallow such a Camel!
CLER: Ay, he profest himself; but sir John Daw has more caution: he'll not hinder his own rising in the state so much.
These politicians that profest For base and worldly ends, Do now appear to us at best But Machiavellian friends.
Hill, a great profest philosopher, and nowe abuseth this yong knight by imagined alchymie.
I cannot tear her memory from my heart, That treads mine down, was ever man so fool'd That profest wit?
This profest cheating rogue was my master, and I confess my self a more preternotorious rogue than himself, in so long keeping his villainous counsell.
Yes, let him run for me, I was never brought up to't, I never profest running i' my life.
I no sooner mentioned the name than He profest himself an acquaintance of my Father's, and declared that He would not permit my being transported to such a distance before my wounds had been examined.
He approved of my design, and profest himself ready to give a shelter to the Fugitive.
I have spoken privately with several, and not one profest to believe in that doctrine.
But eternal torment is in the Methodist creed, and he had profest his adherence to it.
Thus the Man sunk under the general Neglect, was ruin'd and undone, and left a Monument of what every Man must expect that serves a good Cause, profest by an unthankful People.
Can I believe the passion you have profest to me to be sincere?
In morals he was a profest Platonist, and in religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian.
He was deeply read in the antients, and a profest master of all the works of Plato and Aristotle.
But to confine myself to our own particular duties, let me remind you, fathers and brethren, of our high calling as profest ministers of Christ's Church.
Individual souls in it convert into reality the high profest principles of the body, but the active stock of motives in it are the motives of human nature.
All offices and dignities he gives To your profest and most inveterate foes; But if he were inclined, as we could wish him, There is a lady-regent at his ear, That never pardons.
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