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"Purist" Quotes from Famous Books

... incoherent. You mean, of course, when you told me you had seen in Gloucester Mansions a box labeled in accordance with the facts I have just retailed. But I yield that minor point. It is a purist's, at the best. I have supplied a motive, one motive, for the crime; the plotter feared discovery. But there are dozens of others. He was impatient of the old man's rigid control. Hilton is sharp and shrewd, and he guessed things ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

... several instances of inaccuracy and negligence which, however trivial in themselves, tend to prove that the author is not always very scrupulous in speaking of things he has not studied. A purist so severe as to write "Kelt" for "Celt" ought not to call Mercury, originally a very different personage from Hermes, one of "the legendary authors of Greek civilisation" (p. 43); and we do not believe that anybody who had read the writings of the ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... I say, with George the Fourth!—for him there's no delay; Let all askance direct their glance, for virtue's sake, we pray; So says our new Pygmalion, the purist of the town, 'Twere shame that he compelled should be, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

Words linked to "Purist" : purism, scholastic, pedant, bookworm