"Robinson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... settlement needs no repetition here. The years in Holland had knit the little band together more strongly and lastingly than proved to be the case with any future company, their minister, John Robinson, having infused his own intense and self-abnegating nature into every one. That the Virginian colonies had suffered incredibly they knew, but it had no power to dissuade them. "We are well weaned," John Robinson wrote, "from the delicate milk of ...
— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell
... Charles Robinson and Charles L. Chapin, were also travelling around Europe at this time for the purpose of introducing Morse's invention, but, while all these efforts resulted in the ultimate adoption by all the nations of Europe, and then ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse
... themselves are not always scrupulous to follow nee with only the family name of the lady. No less a scholar than Gaston Paris dedicated his Poetes et Penseurs to 'Madame James Darmesteter, nee Mary Robinson'. Perhaps this is an instance of the modification of the strict meaning of a word by convention because of its enlarged ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 5 - The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems • Society for Pure English
... here. We shan't be long. There's a young American gentleman, a Mr Malone, who is driving Mr Robinson down in his new ...
— Man And Superman • George Bernard Shaw
... upon the physical sciences which are to be taught in connection with things themselves,—out of doors, by travel, and in actual life; but he allows no history, or grammar, or ancient languages. No books are permitted save "Robinson Crusoe," which Rousseau finds entirely suitable for Emile. A trade is to be learned ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley
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