James Anthony Froude

Historian, 1818-1894

Cited as Froude. — 23 quotations

The understanding abdicates its functions.

This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity.

Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France.

[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration.

To apologize for his insolent language.

As wide asunder as pole and pole.

He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful.

He was awake to the danger.

While the article on Burns was being written.

He had been closeted with De Quadra.

The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness.

The desirableness of the Austrian alliance.

Himself busy in charge of the household economies.

Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct.

Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.

Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine.

Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes.

Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments.

She had mocked at his proposal.

Elizabeth had lost her venture; but if she was bold, she might recoup herself at Philip's cost.

No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen.

Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs.

The attempt to unprotestantize the Church of England.