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Paton   /pˈætən/   Listen
Paton

noun
1.
South African writer (1903-1988).  Synonyms: Alan Paton, Alan Stewart Paton.






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"Paton" Quotes from Famous Books



... abound in the victorious combination of non-resistance with personal authority. John G. Paton, for example, in the New Hebrides, among brutish Melanesian cannibals, preserves a charmed life by dint of it. When it comes to the point, no one ever dares actually to strike him. Native converts, inspired by him, showed ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... shed, For a prince of good old fellows, That, alack-a-day! is dead; For a prince of worthy fellows, And a pretty man also, That has left the Saltmarket, In sorrow, grief, and woe. Oh! we ne'er shall see the like of Captain Paton no mo'e! ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various



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