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More "Junto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Adams has stated that at that time the "Essex Junto" agreed upon a New England convention to consider the expediency of secession. Adams denounced the plotters so violently that the Massachusetts legislature censured him by vote, upon which he resigned his seat in the ...
— Thomas Jefferson • Edward S. Ellis et. al.
... general happiness, become, in consequence, a source of mortification to the majority of a neighbourhood, and of petty and inadequate gratification to those whose inanity of character, or obsequiousness of manners, have rendered them tolerable to the family, or small junto, who usually take it upon themselves to ...
— A Morning's Walk from London to Kew • Richard Phillips
... before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which was called the Junto;[54] we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three ...
— Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin
... banquettes of Maspero's and the Veau-qui-tete; he saw red-eyed young men in the Exchange denouncing a man who, they said, had, ostensibly for conscience's sake, but really for love, forced upon the woman he had hoped to marry a fortune filched from his own kindred. He saw the junto of doctors in Frowenfeld's door charitably deciding him insane; he saw the more vengeful of his family seeking him with half-concealed weapons; he saw himself shot at in the rue Royale, in the rue Toulouse, and in the Place d'Armes: and, worst of ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable
... himself, were of little avail. The resolutions of the morning, formed under their advice, would be reversed in the evening, by the influence of the Queen and court. But the hand of Heaven weighed heavily indeed on the machinations of this junto; producing collateral incidents, not arising out of the case, yet powerfully co-exciting the nation to force a regeneration of its government, and overwhelming, with accumulated difficulties, this liberticide resistance. ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson
... junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the ...
— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... three-hours' description of the third heaven, of which he had had a dream, very different from Mr. Southey's Vision of Judgment, and also from that other Vision of Judgment, which Mr. Murray, the Secretary of the Bridge-street Junto, has taken into his ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... called the Junto, which became very prosperous, and gave strength to his local reputation. He also began a society for the study of universal knowledge, which ...
— True to His Home - A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin • Hezekiah Butterworth
... encouraged and elated with fresh hopes, Columbus took leave of the little junto at La Rabida, and set out, in the spring of 1486, for the Castilian court, which had just assembled at Cordova, where the sovereigns were fully occupied with their chivalrous enterprise for the conquest of Granada. But alas! ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... perdida toda esperanza, pidio como ultima merced que la dejasen un instante implorar del cielo, antes de morir, el perdon de sus culpas, y de rodillas al borde de la cortadura como estaba, la vieja inclino la cabeza, junto las manos y comenzo a murmurar entre dientes que se yo que imprecaciones ininteligibles: palabras que yo no podia oir por la distancia que me separaba de ella, pero que ni los mismos que estaban a su lado lograron entender; Unos aseguran que hablaba ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
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