asserters

Catharine Macaulay similarly described Rousseau, "[a] mong the most strenuous asserters of a sexual difference in character" (205), as a sensualist and

Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

Jesus Christ as the Messiah; the asserters affecting to forget that they had been dispersed throughout the known world long before

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Rather, he will think that so long as popular truth is one-sided, it is more desirable than otherwise that unpopular truth should have one-sided asserters too; such being usually the most energetic, and the most likely to compel reluctant attention to the fragment of wisdom which they proclaim as if it were the whole.

On Liberty 2002

Lakers; but Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge have too much in common, notwithstanding much individual difference, not to be classed together as innovators and asserters, whether we call them Lakers or something else.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Poets sang the destruction of the Bastille; orators applauded the asserters of liberty; statesmen contemplated the revolution with pleasure; and even divines from their pulpits did not blush to extol the character of the French regenerators.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

There may be many other authorities; it is for the asserters of this theory to produce them, and I certainly would republish them if I could obtain them.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The time has come when we must have an entirely new lot of superlatives -- intensifiers of meaning -- verifiers of earnestness -- asserters of exactness, etc., etc.

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The great principles of freemen governing themselves, as there enunciated, must and will necessarily be attacked by the asserters of divine right in temporal government.

Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

These asserters of youth are not much interested in any human nature except their own, not much, indeed, in that, but only in the friction between their ego and the world.

Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

Canon Law maintained the superiority of the pope, there were not lacking asserters of the imperial preëminence.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910