What you show is complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But design styles do tend to filter down from those rich enough for an “complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials” – because they hire architects who follow eachothers work. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Though human infirmity may betray thy heedless days into the popular ways of extravagancy, yet, let not thine own depravity or the torrent of vicious times carry thee into desperate enormities in opinions, manners, or actions. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Only we must be sure that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right: else we shall expose ourselves to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm, and all the error of wrong principles, if we have faith and assurance in what is not divine revelation. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If the boundaries be not set between faith and reason, no enthusiasm or extravagancy in religion can be contradicted. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a good poem, whether it be epic or dramatic, as also in sonnets, epigrams, and other pieces, both judgement and fancy are required: but the fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the extravagancy, but ought not to displease by indiscretion. ❋ Unknown (2007)
What extravagancy is not man capable of entertaining, when once his shackled reason is led in triumph by fancy and prejudice! ❋ Unknown (2005)
The Japanese history of “Tanzar and Neadarne,” by the same author, is an amiable extravagancy, interspersed with the most just reflections. ❋ Unknown (2005)
No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Emmanuel was in Mansoul; wherefore they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Only we must be sure that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right: else we shall expose ourselves to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm. ❋ 1932- (2000)
This monarch reigned for the space of five years, with tolerable credit to himself, but then gave way to the greatest extravagancy of temper, and to the most atrocious barbarities. ❋ John Foxe (N/A)
In England the public mind has been so powerfully and happily influenced by the anti-calvinistic genius of the liturgy, offices, and discipline of the Anglican Church, that the grossness and extravagancy of the American divines have been tolerated chiefly by those who have not fallen under her instructions, or who have not had the advantage of a liberal education and extensive reading. ❋ William Hull (N/A)
We are taught to place all our art in adorning our outward forms, and permitted, without reproach, to carry that custom even to extravagancy, while our minds are entirely neglected, and, by disuse of reflections, filled with nothing but the trifling objects our eyes are daily entertained with. ❋ Melville, Lewis (1925)
I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
In all, each movement had the comely precision of finely adjusted clockwork, though at times John Bulmer's face showed a spurt of amusement roused by the brigand's extravagancy of gesture and Cazaio's contortions as he strove to pass the line of steel that flickered cannily between his sword and John ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Remarks Church attacked the ‘extravagancy and presumption’ of the lines: ❋ Unknown (1913)
'Tis heresy (this of submitting to every blast of popular extravagancy) which I have combated in persons very dear to me; Dear madam, let them not have your authority for a relapse, when I had almost committed them; but consider it without a bias, and give sentence as you see cause; and in that interim put me not off (Dear madam) with those chimeras, but tell me plainly what inconvenience is it to come? ❋ Various (1913)
