"Contagiously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... laid bare to all eyes many of their own weaknesses, at the side of their higher and purer aspirations. Unreserved children of sincerity, by the very open-heartedness which is one great cause of their commanding power, and contagiously diffuses every zealous affection originating in their nobility of nature—by this grown to excess, made negligent of instinctive self-defence, and heedless of misconstruction, or overcome by importunate and clinging temptations—to what charges have ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various |
