10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETENSIONLESS»
Discover the use of
pretensionless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pretensionless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen
... of his inferiors ; and, were it even necessary, his spirit was too lofty to stoop to
the expedient. He affected no importance from the miserable accident of seniority
or station, and laughed to scorn the pretensionless stupidity that sought ...
George Godfrey Cunningham, 1853
The expression, as being an historical fact, contained no flattery, it nevertheless
discomposed the king's temper, who answered in simple and pretensionless
manner, ' Circumstances have favored me; under the same, my predecessors
would ...
3
The Philosophy of Human Life. Being an Investigation of the ...
It revenges wrongs committed, by visiting the moral nature of the wrong door with
the vengeance of forgiveness. Meek in its aspect, pretensionless in its claims,
charitable in its constructions, it goes forth amid all this world's multiplied
activities, ...
4
La Belle assemblée: or, Bell's court and fashionable magazine
... he plays a studied part, Strange to his taste, uneasy to his heart, That taste is
centred, and that heart is found, Where ties of home and duty circle round: In
humble life, pretensionless and plain, He lives, and loves,-—unheeded, and in
vain.
5
Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's
and pretensionless familiarity with the household put no one out of the way to
give him welcome. His early roaming in summer sometimes brought him, at
sunrise, beneath the bank of the Rose Croft, where he looked, with the
admiration of an ...
John Pendleton Kennedy, 1872
6
The President's Daughters: Including Nina
Tor here all was too pretensionless and too good. The meal resembled rather an
idyllean banquet than a supper " at the Countess's visit." And in truth the milk,
with the excellent cream, she found, as well as the rest, so delicious after the long
...
7
The Home: A Fireside Monthly Companion and Guide for the ...
In the goodly fellowship of the saints, in the noble arm of the martyrs, in the
society of t e great, and good, and wise of every nation, if my darkness is
illuminated, at least my pretensionless submission may be excused. If I err with
the luminaries ...
Mrs. Harriet Ellen (Gramms) Arey, 1858
8
The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine
The course we intend to pursue will, we believe, be a safe and cautious, though a
pretensionless one. Our examination of these treatises will be logical, not
theological. " Logic is the common judge and arbiter of all particular
investigations.
... it in very grotesque fashions — yet docile, pretensionless, avid of all sorts of
knowledge, and possessed of a great, free, and laughing heart. German literature
was very much in the same incheate condition as himself — in the flush of a ...
10
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Those lovely and picturesque houses, built of all orders and all fashions, yet
preserving the one definite, uniform character of the comfortable, the
pretensionless, and the accordant with the scenery in which they are -placed;
houses, some of ...
Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith, 1833
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRETENSIONLESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pretensionless is used in the context of the following news items.
Paralia and Honest Weight: Seeking seafood? Two new Toronto …
Honest Weight is a seafood restaurant unlike any other in the city: utterly pretensionless, (relatively) inexpensive, and stocked with one of the ... «The Globe and Mail, May 15»
Jiyo Kaka Movie Review
... have been penned by Srijato and Nachiketa and Rudranil's story-writing skill. For those interested in simple and pretensionless cinema, "JK! «Times of India, Feb 11»
The Joy of Spätlese: Tasting the 2008 German and Austrian Vintage …
... knowledge and experience, manage to talk and write and think about wine with the boundless and pretensionless enthusiasm of a beginner. «Vinography, Jul 09»
