The nature and efficacy of the natural reason consists in deducing and proving the unknown from the known, or in carrying premises to their legitimate conclusions; and these are the very processes which our method desiderates. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So that war ever hangs over the Czar from that side, unless he should, for the sake of the domestic reform he so much desiderates, disregard the traditions and abandon the purpose of his house. ❋ Various (N/A)
He much desiderates a plain answer to a plain exposition of fact or fancy -- even when it takes the form of that excruciating little monosyllable "no." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Whoever desiderates cheap praise, let him cultivate a beard and a sleepy look, and hang a picture in the Academy rooms. ❋ Various (N/A)
"What one most desiderates in the writings of to-day is clarity, and beauty, and tenderness and urbanity, and truth." ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Ignorance is to be enlightened, passion calmed, mistaken destiny revoked; only what the inmost being desiderates, only what can really quiet the longings embodied in any particular will, is to occupy the redeemed mind. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
This hoped-for issue, if it comes, must come about in the mind; but the mind cannot be its cause since, by hypothesis, it does not possess the ideas it seeks nor has power to realise the harmonies it desiderates. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
And her journals exhibit to us the kind of parliamentary representative she desiderates. ❋ Almroth Wright (1904)
The one persuades, and desiderates the truth of the things expressed, the other acts and implants in Almighty God, by instructions in mysteries not learnt by teaching. ❋ Dionysius The Areopagite (1897)
The republic which he desiderates was realised, as we shall see, partially at least, in Sparta. ❋ Unknown (1897)
There is a considerable amount of truth in this, although it is lacking somewhat in the sympathy which the critic desiderates in the man he is criticising. ❋ John Cairns (1855)
Christian apology has its own sphere, no less than science; and the evidence which the one desiderates is not the supreme life and power of the other. ❋ John Tulloch (1854)
Our country, had it been left as a whole to all its people, as the Communist desiderates, would ere now be of exceedingly little value to any portion of them. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
Ostade, Teniers ... he would turn from the Sistine Altar-piece to these ” in music he desiderates a tune 'that has a story connected with it.' “ ❋ Dowden, Edward (1904)
