We must consider the country or city as well as the book, the individual man as well as the art of which he was perhaps a belated exponent.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The substance, distinguished from the style, shows the sympathy with sentimentalism of which Rousseau was to be the great exponent.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
"It is because Ireland is to-day unable to overcome England on the battlefield we preach the Sinn Fein policy," wrote the principal exponent of the policy in 1906. The remnants of the Fenian Brotherhood had no sympathy with a policy such as this: and though representatives of the "physical force party" were allowed to express their opinions in the Sinn Fein papers, their views were not officially adopted and never became part of the Sinn Fein policy.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry