For he had come to his conclusion before; he did not consult experience, as he should have done, for the purpose of framing his decisions and axioms, but having first determined the question according to his will, he then resorts to experience, and bending her into conformity with his placets, leads her about like a captive in a procession. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Such therefore is that secondary reason, which hath place in divinity, which is grounded upon the placets of God. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Our beaux, after being correctly frizz'd and powdered behind some door, compliment the belle just escaped from a toilet, performed amidst the apparatus of the kitchen; three or four beds are piled one upon another to make room for as many card-tables; and the wits of the prison, who are all the morning employed in writing doleful placets to obtain their liberty, in the evening celebrate the loss of it in bout-rimees and acrostics. ❋ An English Lady (N/A)
In case a majority of placets were given for it, it was accepted in a last solemn public session, after a final vote of placet or non placet ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
This decree, making them “sacred and canonical,” was carried, according to Loisy (p. 201), by 44 placets to 3 non-placets and 5 doubtful. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Evidently, parties were pretty evenly balanced; and, when the _Non-placets_ had all recorded their votes there were about twenty-five left on Dean Stanley's side, which probably would have nearly represented the actual majority, but, at the last moment, some stragglers, who had only arrived in Oxford by 2.25 train hurried in, and so swelled the numbers. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
In due time we were summoned to the theatre where my degree had been granted with some _non placets_ but with no scrutiny. ❋ John Morley (1880)
Chancellor asserting afterwards, what was true in the letter though not in the spirit, that he did not hear the non-placets. ❋ William Tuckwell (1874)
Such therefore is that secondary reason, which hath place in divinity, which is grounded upon the placets of ❋ Francis Bacon (1593)
By contrast with the Non-placets, Non-jurors get short shrift: Thomas Baker's description of himself as "ejected Fellow" of St John's is noticed, but neither explained nor indexed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Tsoba, and other placets gns't, 1707, he consecrated a The White Jews, besides the house which they bad erected QJd Testament, have in almost for the public worship of God. every house, other Hebrew The same year be baptised the ❋ Unknown (1812)
Eifle che Cirty as oft as they fhould, and ow their blafts in due time and placets the Lord hath appointed? ❋ Unknown (1618)
