"Renovate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... information from others, I hope he greatly exceeded the truth in what he delivered on this subject; for was he to be believed, the conclusion we must draw would be, that the only concern of our great men, even at this time, was for places and pensions; that, instead of applying themselves to renovate and restore our sick and drooping commonweal, they were struggling to get closest to her heart, and, like leeches, to suck her last drop ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... and, impelled by a carnivorous instinct, made prey of the animals that surrounded him. It is natural that man should seek to feed on flesh; he has too small a stomach to be supported alone by fruit, which has not sufficient nourishment to renovate him. It is possible he might subsist on vegetables; but their preparation needs the knowledge of art, only to be obtained after the lapse of many centuries. Man's first weapons were the branches of trees, which were succeeded by bows and arrows, and it is worthy of remark, that these latter weapons ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... as a moralist and philosopher.[61] They left on record the prediction that a tenth should come—and he is yet to come—who, in a still higher range of moral and spiritual power, should redeem and renovate the earth, and establish a kingdom ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood
... canst renovate All that high God did first create. Be still his arm and architect, Rebuild the ruin, mend defect; Chemist to vamp old worlds with new, Coat sea and sky with heavenlier blue, New tint the plumage of ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... Fail with her weak consolatory speech, Let the still powers of this beautiful world, With silent healing, renovate thy spirit. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... A wretched pittance; one poor cordial drop To renovate exhausted drooping age, I ask ...
— The Grecian Daughter • Arthur Murphy |
