Lexicographical Neighbors of Fairnesses
Literary usage of Fairnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... that we see persons of the greatest fancy, and such who are most pleased with
outward fairnesses, are most religious. Great understandings make religion ..."
2. The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times: The Cultus of St. Peter and St by George Forrest Browne (1919)
"“Rome excels all other fairnesses in the world because it is consecrated by the
glorious blood of the two Princes “—“ the parents of Rome” as an earlier ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"Great Dian, why, Why didst thou hear her prayer Г О that I Were rippling round
her dainty fairnesses*. Circling about her waist, and striving how To entice ..."
4. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"... and such who are most pleased with outward fairnesses, are most religious.
Great understandings make religion lasting and reasonable; but great fancies ..."
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