10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUIXOTICAL»
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... be called the “ world :—but pray,” continued she, 'favor me with your
adventures, for I “ fancy you must have met with something out of the common
line; and “ really, Mr. Gabriel, it was rather a “ Quixotical I “ Quixotical kind of/an
undertaking, ...
John Canton (novelist.), 1807
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The new British Novelist: comprising works by the most ...
“All this does not show that Mr Tims knew that these several sums had been
appropriated by you in the somewhat Quixotical manner that, as it proves, they
were employed.” “ It is, at least, a strong presumption that he might have known it
if he ...
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The Remembrancer, Or Impartial Repository of Public Events
The Agents of private States sent over here on one mad Quixotical scheme or
other, have been surnished with money for their expences, out of the sums
granted for the support of our army; our Ambassadors and Agents have for some
time ...
John Almon, Thomas Pownall, 1782
The Agents of private States sent over here on one mad Quixotical scheme or
other, have been furnished with money for their expences, out of the sums
granted for the support of our army i our Ambassadors and Agents have for some
time ...
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The Metropolitan Magazine
... house upon Mount Olympus, what is to be done with mortality, when wit and
reason go a wool-gathering? Who is it can have possibly instilled into your brain
such a Hudibrastical, Quixotical, knight~errantical idea? Oh, madness, madness!
It would be a far more quixotical task than I should like to undertake, to defend my
" order " against all comers ; but being inclined to believe that much of the
prejudice against us is merely the result of ignorance on the part of the public,
and is ...
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Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as Related by Herself ...
She was hostile to women; and, calling all their motives of action mere caprices,
she engaged in a Quixotical warfare to set them down. “ I would have done the
same,” said she, “if it had and Lady , had she been here, and chosen to been Sir
...
Hester Lucy Stanhope, Charles Lewis Meryon, 1846
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
... result of their education, and of the atmosphere in which they have been
brought up; and, by giving a new direction to their early training, it might not be
altogether so quixotical to believe that we should alter all that is the result of the
training.
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele, 1868
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Instructive and Curious Epistles: From Catholic Clergymen of ...
Some time since,, a clergyman of the church of England, whose zeal for his
opinions was perfectly quixotical, got a catechism printed at considerable cost ;
he hoped to innoculate the spirits of the Christians of the country with the virus
with ...
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Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition
... numbering some one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants within its borders,
was a shade too Quixotical to find favour in the eyes of the three hundred and
twenty odd pioneers who left Texas, encumbered with wagons, merchandise,
and ...
Wilkins Kendall George Wilkins Kendall, George Kendall, 2009
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUIXOTICAL»
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Franklin rally backs Cramer's quest to oust Blackburn
“I have safely moved up from a quixotical quest, shot right past longshot and now I'm into underdog territory.” Blackburn has a clear financial advantage. «The Tennessean, Oct 14»
