Then if cunning Latin books were translate Into English, well correct and approbate, All subtle science in English might be learned, As well as other people in their own tongues did.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
Our free and enlightened citizens don't approbate silent members; it don't seem to them as if Squashville, or Punkinville, or Lumbertown was right represented, unless Squashville, or Punkinville, or Lumbertown, makes itself heard and known, ay, and feared too.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
But says Vox Populi, perhaps the new plan will not have the same number to approbate it, that the constitution of this State had.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States"
Paul Leicester Ford