Sir J. Stephen

Cited as Sir J. Stephen. — 9 quotations

Affiance

Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love.

Brief

It was not without some reference to it that I perused many a brief.

Canter

A rapid canter in the Times over all the topics.

Complement

History is the complement of poetry.

Ephemeral

Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy.

Franklin

The franklin, a small landholder of those days.

Impersonal

An almighty but impersonal power, called Fate.

Incurable

They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

Zealot

Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array against zealots for the other.