"Magisterially" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at a public house, the common resort of Barny and other marine curiosities, our hero got entangled in debate with what he called a strange sail,—that is to say, a man he had never met before, and whom he was inclined to treat rather magisterially upon nautical subjects; at the same time the stranger was equally inclined to assume the high hand over him, till at last the new-comer made a regular outbreak by exclaiming, "Ah, tare-and-ouns, lave aff your balderdash, Mr. O'Reirdon, by the ...
— Stories of Comedy • Various
... no better nor simpletons," said Richard, magisterially. "'Twarn't he that done it. The likes of him couldn't do ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope
... that tone, please," said Cupid magisterially. "Or you'll make us glad in earnest. People who are always up in arms about things are the greatest ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson
... actual creation and providence of God, that all his works and ways cannot be made to appear consistent with the idea of an absolutely perfect being and of the eternal laws according to which his power acts: that is to say, because the high a priori method, which so magisterially proceeds to pronounce what must be, has failed to solve the problem of the moral world, it does not follow, that the inductive method, or that which cautiously begins with an examination of what is, may ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe |
