Literary notes about Reestablish (AI summary)
The term "reestablish" is used in literature as a versatile verb that denotes the act of restoring, reaffirming, or reviving something once established, whether it be tangible, institutional, or emotional. In some instances, such as in Sherman’s memoirs [1] and [2], it conveys the literal reconstruction of roads and the renewal of systems like order and government. Carlyle’s work [3] employs the word in a forceful and almost moral imperative, urging the recovery of a sanctified entity despite logical or rhetorical obstacles. In a more spiritual context, Yogananda [4] uses it to describe the revealing of a long-held, yet hidden, connection, while Chesterton [5] employs it in a satirical or cautionary tone about reintroducing discredited practices. Finally, Goethe [6] illustrates a more personal dimension of the term, referring to the rekindling of intimacy between individuals.
- Reestablish the road, and I will follow Hood wherever he may go.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Use your influence to reestablish system, order, government.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - "Depose it not; say that it is inviolable, that it was spirited away, was enleve; at any cost of sophistry and solecism, reestablish it!"
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - It was not until the disciple had reached his thirty-third year that Babaji deemed the time to be ripe to openly reestablish the never-severed link.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It is equally possible, for the matter of that, that a future society may reestablish legal torture with the whole apparatus of rack and fagot.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton - brother,—that she could induce him to marry one of her own friends, or could reestablish his intimacy with Albert.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
