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Letter "R" » redressing
«I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.»
Author: George Canning
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
| Keywords:
New World, redress, redressed, redressing
«The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
characteristics, hopeful, omniscient, philanthropy, pried, pry, prying, redress, redressed, redressing, righting, steadily, tireless
«Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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antiquities, antiquity, conservatism, disavow, disavowed, disavowing, disavows, discards, offers, preparation, prescription, prescriptions, redress, redressed, redressing, rejected, shrinks
«A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.»
«I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.»
«There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress»
«Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, at ease, governors, indiscriminate, petitioner, presently, redress, redressing, request, wrongs
«War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
entirely, inefficient, instead, instrument, losses, multiplied by, multiplies, multiplying, redress, redressed, redressing
«Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheerily, harms, redress, redressed, redressing, wail, wailed, Wise Men
«Things past redress are now with me past care»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
redress, redressed, redressing
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