forwardness

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If this Project, which is in a good Forwardness, and carried on apace, be ever finished, St. Peter’s Church will be possessed of a Treasure the more precious because there will be none like it.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

The Forwardness of Youth, when it proceeds from Alacrity and not Insolence, has also its Allowances.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

And I observe, Cubbin, you make your Shepherd Colly, inconstant; and have an Aversion to his former Sweet-heart Soflin, on account of her Frankness, and too great Forwardness.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas

Forwardness I allow is so; but there is a decent familiarity that is necessary in the course of life.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

Forwardness is the soul of all progress and advancement.

From Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil by Nordau, Max Simon