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a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
1911, Morrison I. Swift, “Humanizing the Prisons,”, in The Atlantic:
In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
"Say no more," interrupted Henrietta: "the very mention of that inveterate gossip accounts for every thing. Do let me, my dear Mrs. Courtenaye," and she took her hand with a kindness that was irresistible, "let me warn you against allowing your happiness to be the sport of a woman like that;...
1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 15:
A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty[…]
This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
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1622, Francis Bacon, The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh:
"the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."
1640, Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, Chapter XIX :
"none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "
1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 16:
"The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."