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Literary notes about PERMIT (AI summary)

In literature, the word "permit" often serves as a formal instrument to denote authority, request, or the acknowledgment of limits. Authors have used it in diverse ways, from Shakespeare’s invocation of peaceful access [1] and Gogol’s polite interjections [2] to practical considerations such as denying access in scenes involving precise regulations [3]. It can signal both the granting of favor—as when a character humbly implores divine or interpersonal approval [4]—and the imposition of restrictions on actions, reflecting societal, moral, or physical constraints [5]. Through its varied usage across genres and periods, "permit" highlights the tension between individual desire and external authority, a theme underscored by writers as ancient as Plato [6] and as modern as Sinclair Lewis [7].
  1. Peace be to France, if France in peace permit Our just and lineal entrance to our own!
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  2. Permit me also to remark that his conduct would hardly seem to bear out your opinion—he seems so gentle a man.”
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  3. A fee of $1 is charged for a permit to operate an automobile in Glacier Park.
    — from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
  4. I told her to say her prayers, and remember always to pray for her poor mother, and that God would permit us to meet again.
    — from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
  5. But the cistern had to be emptied, and the proprietor would not permit it as he needed the water for his lemon trees.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  6. ATHENIAN: That we will, by the grace of God, if old age will only permit us.
    — from Laws by Plato
  7. Happily there are now signs that improvement is too far advanced to permit this policy to be any longer successful.
    — from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

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