I agree," answered Thwackum, with great warmth, "with a man who asserts honour to be
antecedent to religion
Her benefactors had seen fit to ignore mention of her strange past, and so she passed as their ward whose
antecedents not having been mentioned were not to be inquired into.
It resulted from these
antecedents that everyone entered heartily into the purpose for which they met; besides, it would not be unlikely that they would have an opportunity of playing either the cardinal or his people an ill turn, and for such expeditions these worthy gentlemen were always ready.
Your brother told me that my
antecedents and occupations were against me; that your family stands, somehow, on a higher level than I do.
Let us put it down to his deplorable
antecedents and education, if you wish.
Manson Mingott's English son-in-law, the banker, and had speedily made himself an important position in the world of affairs; but his habits were dissipated, his tongue was bitter, his
antecedents were mysterious; and when Medora Manson announced her cousin's engagement to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor Medora's long record of imprudences.
By discarding a claim to knowledge of the ultimate purpose, we shall clearly perceive that just as one cannot imagine a blossom or seed for any single plant better suited to it than those it produces, so it is impossible to imagine any two people more completely adapted down to the smallest detail for the purpose they had to fulfill, than Napoleon and Alexander with all their
antecedents.
The product of a large store of reading has been here secreted anew for the reader who desires to see, in bird's-eye view, the light and shade of a long and varied period of poetic literature, by way of preparation for Shakespeare, [9] (with a full essay upon whom the volume closes,) explaining Shakespeare, so far as he can be explained by literary
antecedents.
Her fear of the man was gradually departing, and she was full of a thousand unsatisfied curiosities as to his plans for the future in so far as they related to her, as well as more personal questions regarding himself, since she could not but wonder as to his
antecedents and his strange and solitary life in the jungle, as well as his friendly intercourse with the savage apes among which she had found him.
It would be easy to find a thousand places where your
antecedents would be neither known nor questioned.
That is a matter of great practical interest to the scientific detective,--especially in cases of unclaimed bodies, or in discovering the
antecedents of criminals.
It is worthy of yourselves, worthy of the
antecedents of the Gun Club; and it cannot fail to make some noise in the world.
