Citations:pragmatique

English citations of pragmatique

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• 1592, Pierce Penilesse His Svpplication to the Diuell, page #183:

  Had he ever ſtudied any pragmaticall diſcourſe, or peruſed any treaties of confederacy, of peace, of truce, of intercourſe, of other forrein neotations, (that is ſpecially noted for one of my inkhorne wordes,) or reſearched any actes and monuments, civill or eccleſiaſticall ; or looked into any lawes, ſtatues, injunctions, proclamations, (na, it is one of his witty flowtes, he beginnes like a proclamation, but few treatiſes better penned then ſome proclamations ;) or had he ſeene any autenticall inſtruments, pragmatique articles, or other politique traicts, he would rather have woondred I should uſe ſo fewe formall termes, (which I purpoſely avoided, as not ſo vulgarly familiar) then have marvelled at any which I uſed.

• 1610?, William Strachey, The historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia, page #2:

  […] with all carefulnes, principally to endeavour the conversion of the natives to the knowledge and worship of the true God, and the world’s Redeemer, Christ Jesus ; how rotten and unsound, then, both to his Majestie and the present faith (it is to be feared) may they be at the coare within, that dare (except yt be as I sayd, out of ignorance, yet cannot that excuse a factious and pragmatique tongue) quarrel and traduce the proceedings of a whole state, and to which the royall authoritie, by letters made patents, both in her Majestie’s tyme, of famous memory, and nowe likewise hath ben five tymes concurrant ?

• 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, page #202:

  It was in vaine to chalenge the pragmatique Pagan in point of honour , nor knew he any recourſe by juſtice to eaſe himſelfe.

• 1697, John Paterson quoted in Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, page #131:

  I designe to live out of all roads that I may give the less offence or umbrage to such as may look on me as a pragmatique man, and Coupar is in the high road from north to south, where I desire not to live if I can avoyd it.