"Begetter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... observations, acquires a character of jocularity, and begetter means procurer or getter. Thorpe thus becomes what we know Curll to have been a century later, a printer of stolen copy, with a turn for cynical waggery. Mr. W. H., the begetter, accordingly, is not a glittering aristocrat, but an unscrupulous go-between, who has made free with somebody's escritoire, and handed the sonnets over to the ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
... indeed explaining to us how he could give us all these;—while we hardly go so far, we agree with his other wise words:—"There is a weakness and folly in all misplaced and excessive affection;" which in Shakspeare's case is the more distressing, when we consider that "Mr. W. H., the only begetter of these ensuing sonnets," was, in all likelihood, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, a man of noble and gallant character, but always ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown
... employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent; a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness, and a begetter of habits of peace and patience in those that ...
— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field
... visits her there. In Jowai, the husband came to his mother-in-law's house only after dark," and the explanation of the latest authority is that among these people "the man is nobody ... if he be a husband he is looked upon merely as u shong kha, a begetter."[324] ...
— Folklore as an Historical Science • George Laurence Gomme
... upon. Not being a King Canute, he does not take sides for or against social evolution. With the clearest eyes imaginable, he looks into it. Turner's The Frontier in American History (1920) has been a fertile begetter of interpretations ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie
... be formed, with the agent-suffix tr, from the radical pa, "to protect, to guard,"—the father having been originally looked upon as the "protector," or "guarder." Max Muller, who offers the same derivation, remarks: "The father, as begetter, was called in Sanskrit ganitar, as protector and supporter of his posterity, however, pitar. For this reason, in the Veda both names together are used in order to give the complete idea of 'father.' In like manner, matar, 'mother,' is ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... to a great extent, is filled by the maternal uncle. Among the Khasis he is regarded in the light of a father. It is his duty to assist the mother in the management of the family. The husband is looked upon merely as u shong kha,[80] a begetter. Only by the later marriage custom, when the wife and children leave the home of her mother, has the father any recognised position in the home. "There is no gainsaying the fact," writes Mr. Gurdon, "that the husband is a stranger in the wife's ...
— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley
... is the mere creature of rhetoric. It is a survival from the time when the natural rights of man inspired a simple faith, when eager citizens declared that kings were the eternal enemies of Freedom. Its only begetter was Thomas Jefferson, and its gospel is preached in the famous Declaration of Independence. The dogmatism and pedantry upon which it is based are easily confuted. Something else than a form of government is necessary ...
— American Sketches - 1908 • Charles Whibley |
