Of the great rhetoricians whom De Quincey quotes in the Essay on Rhetoric just noticed, such men as Burke and Jeremy Taylor lead us to forget the means in the end.
He, however, quotestwo who, in treating of the various nationalities, admit that Moldavia and Wallachia contain the descendants of the Roman colonists who speak a perverted Latin.
Decebalus was his name, and quotes an inscription in which he is spoken of as 'Regem Decebalum.
All this does he know; and yet he quotes the number of processes issued by the most litigious people on earth against each other, as a proof of the tyranny of the landlords, and as the fruitful source of poverty and crime.
For this purpose he quotes several passages of vague commendation from different authors, and among others one from Burke, written in haste, to serve an immediate purpose, and evidently from a very superficial recollection of our history.
He quotesother writings of the same sect under Charles I.
Hume had looked at them very superficially, and quotes them but twice.
Kay appropriately quotes "God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed towards His name" (Heb.
In the next verse he quotes from the ten commandments again, namely, Adultery and Murder (what the Saviour in the fifth chapter of Matt.
He also quotes the four passages about Jesus and his disciples keeping the first day of the week.
He begins and quotes the two precepts (the essence of the ten commandments) given by the Saviour in Matt.
Eusebius, in speaking of these Flavians, and particularly of Domitilla the younger, niece of Domitian, quotes the authority of the historian Bruttius.
An inscription discovered at Civita Lavinia quotes the very words of a decree of the Senate on this subject: "It is permitted to those who desire to make a monthly contribution for funeral expenses to form an association.
Athenaeus quotes 35 writers of works, known or supposed to be dictionaries, for, as they are all lost, it is often difficult to decide on their nature.
He then quotes as examples:-- “I left him at primero with the Duke of Suffolk.
Mirabeau quotes this from Rousseau in self-defense: "No true believer can be a persecutor.
Mr. Moggridge points out that the ancients were familiar with the facts, and quotes the well-known fable of the ant and the grasshopper, which La Fontaine borrowed from Aesop.
Beagle,'" 1844, Darwin quotes several instances of greenstone and basaltic dikes intersecting granitic and allied metamorphic rocks.
Lyell quotes from you in the 10th and last edition of the "Principles of Geology" is one of the most striking which I have ever read on the affiliation of species.
In the same passage in "Cross and Self Fertilisation" he quotes Muller as stating that hive-bees obtain nectar from red clover by breaking apart the petals.
Cooley quotes Bogtrup on the teaching of history as follows: "History does not mean books and maps; it is not to be divided into lessons and gone through with a pointer like any other paltry school subject.
He also quotes a striking parallel from the Elite des contes du Sieur d'Ouville.
Leveque quotes from the works of Empedocles (Les Mythes et les Legendes de l'Inde, p.
He quotes from Upham's Sacred and Historical books of Ceylon a story about some snipe, which escape in the same way, but owing to disunion are afterwards caught again.
Douce quotes from another hymn said to have been composed by Saint Ambrose and formerly used in the Salisbury service.
This he quotes from the translation of Demetrios Galanos.
Professor Aufrecht in his Beitraege zur Kenntniss Indischer Dichter quotes a Strophe of Amarasinha in which the following line occurs, Dugdha seyam achetanena jarati dugdhasayat sukari.
He also quotes from the Chronicle of Tabari a story of a princess who was made to bleed by a rose-leaf lying in her bed.
He also quotes from the Sidi Kuer, the story to which I have referred in Sagas from the Far East, and compares a Norwegian story in Ashbjoernsen, pp.
He quotes the following interesting passage from the Philopseudes of Lucian, Synen achri de alektryonon ekousamen adonton tote de he te Selene aneptato eis ton ouranon kai he Hekate edy kata tes ges, kai ta alla phasmata ephanisthe, &c.
He quotes a saying of Buddha from Spence Hardy's Eastern Monachism, page 166, cp.
The women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven," and he quotes a curious custom practised on Palm Sunday in the town of Saintes.
Darwin quotes an authority for the statement that our ruffed grouse makes its drumming sound by striking its wings together over its back.
Romanes quotes from some person who alleges that he saw a pair of nightingales, during a flood in the river near which their nest was placed, pick up the nest bodily and carry it to a place of safety.
To prove that the earth stands still, he quotes the passage from Ecclesiastes, "the earth standeth fast forever.
Coming to details, he quotes those grand words of Isaiah, "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, .
Plato quotes several examples of this unsettling tendency, as when he makes Dionysodorus maintain: “Whoever gives culture to one who does not possess knowledge, desires that he should no longer remain what he is.
He has used government records freely, and as is usually the case when a special pleader quotes from such records, the nature of the matter which he has omitted is worthy of more than passing attention.
Blount quotes the following statement from the report of the First Philippine Commission:-- "While the Spanish troops now remained quietly in Manila, the Filipino forces made themselves masters of the entire island except that city.
He quotesmany French proverbs, and then gives English adages that more or less match them.
At Rome he wrote his first satire, a humorous critique upon Richard Flecknoe, an English Jesuit and verse writer, whose lines on Silence Charles Lamb quotes in one of his Essays.
Ian Maclaren in his touching story of "Domsie" quotes John Knox as saying: "Ilka scholar is something added to the riches of the commonwealth.
Mr. Lowell in one of his admirable orations quotes from a Wallachian legend of a peasant who was "taken up into heaven" and offered his choice among the objects to be seen there.
The worthy Mr. Donnelly then quotes Mr. Holmes for Shakespeare's knowledge of the Greek drama.
But, by a singular oversight, Mr. Pollock quotes only part of what Godfrey said to Wynell (or Wynnel) about his secret.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quotes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: comma; mark; punctuation
