Pretences

Address; for if I had told my Father or Mother, I shou'd but have embarrass'd them in a difficult Business, for it ill befitted them to profer their Daughter in Marriage, and disagreeable, to leave me to struggle with my own Passion, and his Pretences, without taking any

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Address; for if I had told my Father or Mother, I shou'd but have embarrass'd them in a difficult Business, for it ill befitted them to profer their Daughter in Marriage, and disagreeable, to leave me to struggle with my own Passion, and his Pretences, without taking any

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Phillips to whose laudable industry we owe a much more bulky Performance was no better qualified for paving a way to any one of the Sciences, having neither Skill, Tools, nor Materials: so that Cole, after all, with his few Pretences has as much real worth as any of the former, and may make good the part of a Guide to Tradesmen and illiterate Readers.

On Dictionaries 1969

Pretences unto the spirit of prophecy under the Old Testament -- Two sorts of false prophets: the first; the second sort -- Pretenders under the New Testament -- The rule for the trial of such pretenders, 1 John iv.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Pretences of perfection here are contrary to the Scriptures, contrary to the universal experience of all believers, and contrary to the sense and conscience of them by whom they are pleaded, as they make it evident every day.

A Treatise of the Dominion of Sin and Grace 1616-1683 1965

He must grasp for himself, under specious Pretences, for the public

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 August 1776 1963

Points could not be disputed, and the 3d. ought not, for the War against them had been unjust, the Pretences for it were groundless, their Accession to the armed Neutrality must now be admitted, even by Britains

John Adams diary 38, 1 - 26 December 1782 1961

Vexatious proceedings continued to be taken under the Act until the year 1623, when a Statute was passed, entitled "An Act for the General Quiet of the Subjects against all Pretences of Concealment whatsoever." —

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

The Disseisin of many honest Families in the County of _Kilkenny_, and elsewhere, by the Earl of _Strafford_, on stale Pretences of _Non

An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke

Phillips to whose laudable industry we owe a much more bulky Performance was no better qualified for paving a way to any one of the Sciences, having neither Skill, Tools, nor Materials: so that Cole, after all, with his few Pretences has as much real worth as any of the former, and may make good the part of a Guide to Tradesmen and illiterate Readers.

On Dictionaries 1924