"Securer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whereas in this of Oceana it is not otherwise intrusted than when the Senate, in the election of nine knights-extraordinary, gives at once the commission, and takes security in a balance, added to the Council of War, though securer before by the tribunes of the people than that of Venice, which yet never incurred jealousy; for if the younger nobility have been often girding at it, that happened not so much through the apprehension of danger in it to ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington
... of mischief by the wise diffused, With gladness thinking that the more it spreads The healthier, the securer we become; Delusion which a moment ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth
... ills you suffer,—hence remain Such galling fragments of that feudal chain[5] Whose links, around you by the Norman flung, Tho' loosed and broke so often, still have clung. Hence sly Prerogative like Jove of old Has turned his thunder into showers of gold, Whose silent courtship wins securer joys, Taints by degrees, and ruins without noise. While parliaments, no more those sacred things Which make and rule the destiny of kings. Like loaded dice by ministers are thrown, And each new set of sharpers cog their own. ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... twofold relaxation, we must explore its source in the human mind. Accordingly, make up your mind to dwell a little longer in the region of speculation, in order then to leave it forever, and to advance with securer footing on ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller |
