Two other attempts to ingraft new and vital power on the rigid and trivial sentimentality of the Italian forms of opera were those of Rossini and Weber.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
This goes to the very seat of life, purges the fountain head of impulse and desire, creates a new man to do new works, and does not simply ingraft new works on the old character, putting the new piece into the old garment.
"Amusement: A Force in Christian Training"
Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.
They would be the last to brand Franklin and King and Morris and Wilson and Sherman and Hamilton with the ineffaceable infamy of attempting to ingraft on the Constitution, and therefore to perpetuate, a system of oppression in absolute antagonism to its high and professed objects, one which their own practice condemned,-and this, too, when they had scarcely wiped away the dust and sweat of the Revolution from their brows!
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society