"Hinderance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... laboring and business classes" of this country as compared with the United States. This is succinctly explained by Mr. Dawson, who says: "The quantity of people who cannot read and write in this country is a very great hinderance to the demand for books. We have eight millions who cannot write yet!" Mr. Edwards, in his evidence, also points to the same deficiency of elementary education, "In addition," he says, "to the positive want of schooling on the part of large numbers of the population ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... undue regard to the world, is too often a hinderance to religious profession. Persons who have been awakened to some sense of the evil of sin, and have perceived the importance, while they have felt in some degree the claims of piety, frequently, alas! have been deterred from that avowal of their sentiments, which is essential to verify their ...
— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II • Francis Augustus Cox
... the time at which, on that night, the Seine would be navigable upstream, and his counsellors evidently shared his mistake till it was brought home to them by experience. The land forces achieved their march without hinderance, and at the appointed hour, shortly before daybreak, fell upon the French camp with such a sudden and furious onslaught that the whole of its occupants fled across the pontoon, which broke under ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various
... seem fetter'd by a frost. 525 Some mischief sure o'er Priam's sons impends. Far be such tidings from me! but I fear Horribly, lest Achilles, cutting off My dauntless Hector from the gates alone, Enforce him to the field, and quell perhaps 530 The might, this moment, of that dreadful arm His hinderance long; for Hector ne'er was wont To seek his safety in the ranks, but flew First into battle, yielding place to none. So saying, she rush'd with palpitating heart 535 And frantic air abroad, by her two maids Attended; soon arriving at the tower, And at the throng of men, awhile she stood Down-looking ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... serve and execute the said warrant and legal process, and the said further legal process and order in manner and form as he was therein commanded, to the great damage of the said Watson Freeman, to the great hinderance and obstruction of Justice, to the evil example of all others, in like case offending, against the peace and dignity of the said United States, and contrary to the form of the Statute in ...
— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker
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