"The gods grant that he is not so ill-affected by the sight of you, whoever he may be," I laughed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Alcibiades raves (saith [3404] Maximus Tyrius) and is sick, his furious desires carry him from Lyceus to the pleading place, thence to the sea, so into Sicily, thence to Lacedaemon, thence to Persia, thence to Samos, then again to Athens; Critias tyranniseth over all the city; Sardanapalus is lovesick; these men are ill-affected all, and can never be cured, till their minds be otherwise qualified. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In a State where there is a sense of virtue, a powerful man ought not to give way to the ill-affected, or expose the government to those that are incapable of it, nor suffer high trusts to be committed to those who want common honesty. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
An ill-affected Government may well realise today, moreover, that such a stoppage would probably not be followed by a collapse and surrender by the company. ❋ Unknown (1959)
Towards the close of the year the influx from Oxford became so dangerous that it became necessary for the mayor to issue a precept (17 Dec.) for special precautions to be taken against danger arising from ill-affected persons. — ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Instantly there flashed upon Judith the intuition that her uncle, heartsick and ill-affected toward the quarrel, had silently withdrawn until it should have been settled one way or another. ❋ Alice MacGowan (N/A)
The audiences before whom _The Revenge_ was produced evidently showed themselves ill-affected towards such a medley of purely fictitious creations, and of historical personages and incidents, treated in the most arbitrary fashion. ❋ George Chapman (N/A)
For what citizen can there be found so ill-affected as to wish by one vote to draw two daggers against the Republic? ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
So adroitly were these and other arguments presented, and so overwhelming was the mass of testimony favourable to the colonists that constantly reached the Jeronymites from all sides, that they began to be ill-affected towards Las Casas and to disregard his suggestions. ❋ Francis Augustus MacNutt (N/A)
Having stopped two gentlemen in the service of the young Queen, whom he thought ill-affected toward the Cardinal, and consequently glad to measure weapons with his creatures, one of them said to him very gravely: ❋ Various (N/A)
The vessel that has arrived here has brought down some of the ill-affected Portuguese. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)
Princes who were ill-affected towards him, he kept in subjection, more by menaces and remonstrances, than by force of arms. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)
Their country is supposed to contain rich mines: it is said to be fertile and thickly populated; it is not loyal -- on the contrary, it is ill-affected to its liege lord, the Sultan; it is fanatical to a degree, and largely swayed by a form of government best expressed by its title -- Council of Forty. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
The discovery led to stricter precautions being taken to prevent inhabitants of the city leaving the city to join the king at Oxford, as many ill-affected persons had already done. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"Yet the Burgesses, sir, are mostly ill-affected; and Berkeley, to grant him justice, does not lack bravery --" ❋ Unknown (1917)
He deemed this the wiser statecraft, probably because he had experienced in the conquest of Babylonia the danger of keeping an ill-affected population in the midst of a country threatened by a foreign foe. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
For he who knows a thing that is right, but does not explain it with clearness, is no better than if he had never had a conception of it; and he, again, who has both these requisites, but is ill-affected towards his country, would not so well speak for her interest. ❋ Unknown (1906)
This does not give me so much trouble as the preparation and disposal of military affairs, and other obligations of my office, which I could not fulfil if I had to go about conjecturing what ill-affected persons do and write against me, as in this case; and in verifying the facts time would be lost. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)
For assuredly if rumours of your words should reach the King when he was ill-affected, it should go hardly with me. ' ❋ Ford Madox Ford (1906)
