Careful Words

request (n.)

request (v.)

request (adv.)

  The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.

Obliged by hunger and request of friends.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 44.