"Diffusive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... require a diffusive exposition, that the application for a writ of error was not only prudent, but a duty in Pagan. To this Mr. Tilghman explicitly assents, when he says, that he was perfectly 'satisfied of the prudence of applying for the writ of error, as Pagan could not complain of a defect of justice, until he ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... seriatim. Leach made a very short and very neat speech, condemning the order[10] of the Governor-General, but admitting the danger of rescinding it, and recommending, therefore, that the execution of it should be suspended. Sir Edward East, in a long, diffusive harangue, likewise condemned the order, but was against suspension; Sir James Graham was against the order, but against suspension; Lord Amherst the same. The rest approved of the order altogether. John Russell gave his opinion very ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II • Charles C. F. Greville
... Tancred and Sigismunda, the most successful of all his tragedies, for it still keeps its turn upon the stage. It may be doubted whether he was, either by the bent of nature or habits of study, much qualified for tragedy. It does not appear that he had much sense of the pathetic; and his diffusive and descriptive style produced declamation rather than dialogue. His friend Mr. Lyttelton was now in power, and conferred upon him the office of Surveyor-General of the Leeward Islands; from which, when his deputy was paid, he received about ...
— Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others • Samuel Johnson
... seldom gathers head: But, by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. The Land ...
— The World's Best Poetry — Volume 10 • Various
... in this diffusive manner, Cuthbert was thinking. When she ended, "Why should this death be a warning to ...
— The Secret Passage • Fergus Hume
... like water: it has a tendency to scatter. It is diffusive. It seeks release in a thousand different directions at the ...
— Initiative Psychic Energy • Warren Hilton |
