"Dissenting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the eighteenth century a leading Dissenting minister, the Rev. Joseph Fawcett, said in answer to a question: "Do I like Sterne? Yes, to be sure I should deserve to be hanged if I didn't!" That was the attitude of thoughtful and scrupulous ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... little on the character of the Dissenting population immediately surrounding Roe Head; for the "Tory and clergyman's daughter," "taking interest in politics ever since she was five years old," and holding frequent discussions with such of the girls as were Dissenters ...
— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell
... Joseph Story was ten years old in 1789 when the Constitution was adopted; his earliest impressions, therefore, were of the Confederation, and I know no better description of the interval just subsequent to the peace of 1783, than is contained in a few lines in his dissenting opinion in the Charles ...
— The Theory of Social Revolutions • Brooks Adams
... they have.' The meaning intended is probably—'as I do not know whether they have or not,' and therefore the subjunctive 'have' is preferable. 'If ignorance is bliss,' which I (ironically) admit. Had Gray been speaking seriously, he would have said, 'if ignorance be bliss,' he himself dissenting from the proposition. ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
... There was not a dissenting voice. Charley was altogether the most popular member of Company I, and every man knew how he had clung to the ...
— Old Man Savarin and Other Stories • Edward William Thomson
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