"Peremptoriness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which each of the friends strikes successively, in the first of the three divisions into which the dialogue divides itself, but each with increasing peremptoriness and confidence, as Job, so far from accepting their interpretation of what had befallen him, hurls it from him in anger and disdain. Let us observe (what the Calvinists make of it they have given us no means of knowing,) he will hear as little of the charges against mankind, as of charges ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude |
