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And permit me to add, that young as I am, I have often observed, that over-great strictnesses all at once enjoined and insisted upon, are not fit for a beginning reformation, but for stronger Christians only; and therefore generally do more harm than good.

Pamela 2006

Moreover, the eye, when seized with an over-great plenitude of humors, grows dim and feeble for its ordinary work.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

I expressed over-great wonderment at his tale, in order to draw further words from the old man.

Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

The great danger of the couplet thus treated is that of over-great conventionality, as was partly illustrated by

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

This vice of drunkennesse, wherein many take over-great pleasure, was

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various

Clemenceau had made over-great concessions, protesting that the League would be utterly unable to protect France against sudden attack, especially since the Covenant had not provided for a general military force.

Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924

Beauty, especially in the woman, but also in man, has received an over-great share of homage, but here ` ` tastes differ. ''

The Foundations of Personality 1921

But Urquhart opined that this would be over-great haste.

The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919

So over-great is their joy that neither can believe the witness of his senses; nothing so good could be true as that this verily which can be seen and clasped should be the so sorely desired one.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Isolde listens again: No! Brangaene, she believes, is deceived by her over-great anxiety, deceived by the rustling of the leaves.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912