Citations:approbation

English citations of approbation

				1748	1818
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• 1748, William Melmoth (tr.), The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks‎^[1], 1st edition, page 56:

  He places no part of his happiness in ostentation, but in the secret approbation of his conscience; seeking the reward of his virtue, not in the clamorous applauses of the world, but in the silent satisfaction which results from having acted well.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M.

  A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous interference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.