"Persist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the grave to which the Revolution of 1848 had consigned them. Still, ancient history as these controversies are from the German standpoint, such is the backwardness of philosophy among English-speaking peoples, that we find Engels exposing again and again fallacies which persist even in our time, and ridiculing sentiments which we receive with approbation in our political assemblies, and with mute approval in our churches ...
— Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy • Frederick Engels
... "this will never do. You can neither of you serve the nation well if you persist in quarrelling between yourselves. General Bourbotte, you should apologize to our friend Westerman for the insult which you offered to ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope
... direction, while she was good-humoredly trying to pacify her maid, who, with tears in her eyes, was protesting that she could not sleep another night in that coal-hole, into which the people of the house had thrust her, and which they would persist in calling a chamber. ...
— The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters • Sue Petigru Bowen
... not see your way to help it—that is, as long as you persist in your ridiculous resolution of keeping Biddy. Why, she ought to ...
— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... association, and that there was reason to apprehend he had fallen a sacrifice to the climate, or perished in some contest with the natives; but this intelligence, instead of deterring me from my purpose, animated me to persist in the offer of my services with the greater solicitude. I had a passionate desire to examine into the productions of a country so little known, and to become experimentally acquainted with the modes of life and character of the natives. I knew that I was able to bear fatigue, ...
— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park
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