Citations:præscious

English citations of præscious and præſcious

Adjective: antiquated form of prescious

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• 1737, Jabez Hughes, Miscellamies in Verse and Prose, John Watts; page #108:

  Below, the Prophets præſcious Rage

  Foretold th’ amazing Birth, and ſung in myſtic Page.

• 1837, Joseph Hall in The Works of Joseph Hall, D. A. Talboys; Volume VII of XII, Chapter II, § II, page #72:

  No man ever could be a more fit instance, than that honour of Rotterdam, traduced beyond example by the malicious cowl of his age : amongst whom, John Standish, a Minorite, impudently calumniates him to the King and Queen of England, as one, that denied the Resurrection ^z  ; others, that he had blasphemed all Christ’s miracles, as done by magic : since which time, our modern Pontificians, and Bellarmin ^a amongst the rest, can brand him as a friend to Arianism ; and a patron of that Anabaptistical fancy of the unlawfulness of war  ; which yet himself as præscious of so unjust imputation, prevents and confutes in an Epistle to Paulus Voltzius ^b.

• 1909, translation by John Dryden, Virgil’s Æneid, P. F. Collier & Son Company; Book XI, page #366:

  Thrice happy thou, dear partner of my bed,

  Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled,

  Præscious of ills, and leaving me behind,

  To drink the dregs of life by fate assign’d !