"Enter upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the delicacy of our fair readers will not allow us to enter upon the numerous amours of this favourite of Apollo and the Muses, and not less celebrated intriguant. She may, however, have ample justice entailed upon her under another head. Latterly, since the police have been so active in suppressing the gaming houses, a small party have ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
... seldom changed, and have almost, but not quite, unlimited power and authority. The limitations are that they shall so manage as to preserve harmony, and that they shall act within the general rules of the societies—shall not contract debts, for instance, or enter upon speculative ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... prepared monographs are issued from time to time, dealing with the different founts used by the early printers; but as this subject is unlikely to engage the attentions of those for whom this work is written (who, like the writer, are of modest means), I forbear to enter upon it in detail. ...
— The Book-Hunter at Home • P. B. M. Allan
... is impossible for us now to enter upon this Affair, —We should have the whole Day before us. —Besides, the Account of the last Half Year's Plate is in a Book by itself, which lies ...
— The Beggar's Opera - to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song • John Gay
... side, seeing it is our enemies who have taken their names falsely; whilst we, with much to lure us, yet for our oath's sake, and the gods who were our witnesses, sternly held aloof. So that, it seems to me, we have a right to enter upon this contest with much more heart than our foes; and further, we are possessed of bodies more capable than theirs of bearing cold and heat and labour; souls too we have, by the help of heaven, better and braver; nay, the men themselves are more vulnerable, more mortal, than ourselves, ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
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