"Reprover" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that a father misgoverns his children, and ill-treats his wife. But her station makes it inexpedient for her to turn reprover. It is a case where reproof would do no ...
— An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism - With reference to the duty of American females • Catharine E. Beecher
... vigilance to observe how the plea in justification or excuse takes effect, and, if they perceive it does not succeed, what address in sliding into a different one. What quickness to avail themselves of any mistake, or apparent concession, in the examiner or reprover. What copious rhetoric in exaggeration of the cause which tempted to do wrong, or of the great good hoped to be effected by the little deviation from the right,—a good surely enough to excuse so ...
— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster
... "A wise reprover upon an obedient ear" is one of the rare things spoken of by Solomon,—the rarest, perhaps, to be met with. How many really religious people put any of their religion into their manner of performing this most difficult ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various |
