Procuring Quotes
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Fine clothes are good onlyas they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
— 1776 Remark, 27 Mar. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
joseph alleine— P. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish “development priorities” which presumably means procuring some developments as being good and prohibiting others as being bad.
john james cowperthwaite— March 27, 1968, page 212.
The purpose of the magnanimous is to be found in procuring benefits for the world and eliminating its calamities. … Mutual attacks among states, mutual usurpation among houses, mutual injuries among individuals; the lack of grace and loyalty between ruler and ruled, the lack of affection and filial piety between father and son, the lack of harmony between elder and younger brothers these are the major calamities in the world.
mozi— Book 4; Universal Love II
In the United States one cannot sell himself as a peon or slave -- the law is fixed and established to protect the weak-minded, the poor, the miserable. Men will sometimes sell themselves for a meal of victuals or contract with another who acts as surety on his [sic] bond to work out the amount of the bond upon his [sic] release from jail. Any such contract is positively null and void and the procuring and causing of such contract to be made violates these statutes.
— Attorney General Francis Biddle (1941). "Circular No. 3591, Re: Involuntary Servitude, Slavery, and Peonage." Francis Biddle to All United States Attorneys, Dec. 12, 1941, File 50-821, Record Group 60, Department of Justice, National Archives.
"Yes, nowadays everything is being mortgaged, or is going to be." This said, Kostanzhoglo's temper rose still further. "Out upon your factories of hats and candles!" he cried. "Out upon procuring candle-makers from London, and then turning landowners into hucksters! To think of a Russian pomiestchik, a member of the noblest of callings, conducting workshops and cotton mills! Why, it is for the wenches of towns to handle looms for muslin and lace."
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, available at gutenberg.org
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
— Joseph Alleine, p. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
— Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Johnson (1776).
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief...So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
— Emma Goldman, anarchist, activist, in Mother Earth, 1911.
Those who give drugs for procuring abortion, and those who receive poisons to kill the foetus, are subjected to the penalty of murder.
— Council of Trullo, canon XCI, 692. (T)
