"Reprehension" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and Philosophical, common Sense tells us they are not fit for a Shepherd's mouth. Here Theocritus cannot be altogether excus'd, but Virgil deserves no reprehension. But Proverbs justly challenge admission into Pastorals, nothing being more common in {68} the mouths of Countrymen ...
— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin
... where one robbery alone has been committed for sixteen years; and the thief hanged by a Florentine executioner borrowed for the purpose, no Lucchese being able or willing to undertake so horrible an office, with terrifying circumstances of penitence and public reprehension: where the governed are so few in proportion to the governors; all power being circulated among four hundred and fifty nobles, and the whole country producing scarcely ninety thousand souls. A great boarding-school in England is really an infinitely more licentious place; and grosser immoralities ...
— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi
... mystic bread and wine; but in these our latter days, when discipline is relaxed, along with the sedate and the pious come swarms of the idle and the profligate, whom no eloquence can edify and no solemn rite affect. On these, and such as these, the poet has poured his satire; and since this desirable reprehension the Holy Fairs, east as well as west, have become more ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... a letter from the family lawyer, couched in the terms of sorrowful reprehension such functionaries usually ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
... animadversion, comment, objurgation, reproach, blame, condemnation, rebuke, reproval, censure, criticism, reflection, upbraiding. check, denunciation, reprehension, ...
— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald
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