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...c feats in the Imperial bed. EDSTASTON. I know nothing about her Majesty’s emi- nence in policy or philosophy: I don’t pretend to understand such thin...

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...o the state, and that any stranger coming in would say of them that the most emi nent men of Athens, to whom the Athenians themselves give honor and ...

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...made Ibsen capable of it are not to be expected from any official, however emi- nent. It is true that an enlightened censor might, whilst shrinking ev... ...a century and a half later, the Star Chamber began cutting off the ears of emi- nent XVII. century Nonconformists and standing them in the pillory; an...

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...herent in the nature of each. What is now called the nature of women is an emi nently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some direct... ...to fifty eminent men; and the last three centuries have not produced fifty emi nent male composers either in Germany or in Italy. There are other rea...

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...nd feet. II. SELF-RELIANCE I read the other day some verses written by an emi- nent painter which were original and not conven- tional. The soul alw... ...ll or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that emi- nence. With every influx of light comes new danger. Has he light? he m... ...f language. 207 Emerson Swedenborg, of all men in the recent ages, stands emi- nently for the translator of nature into thought. I do not know the ma...

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...ondescript mix- ture of styles in the worst possible taste. It stood on an emi- nence surrounded by hilly woodland, thirty acres of which were enclose... ... a camp-stool a little way off, sketching the castle, which appeared on an emi- nence to the southeast. The woodland rose round them like the sides of...

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... little, which can be at- tributed to fortune, inasmuch as he attained pre-emi- nence, as is shown above, not by the favour of any one, but step by st...

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...nd name directory in the course of Wagner’s travail. But, as Wagner’s most emi- nent English interpreter once put it to me at Bayreuth be- tween the a...

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...aid Sir Charles, with an air of conclusiveness; “but I see no objection to emi- gration” The fact is,” said T refusis, “the idea of emigration is a da...

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...ich they render in clothing the person of the wearer. The need of dress is emi- nently a “higher” or spiritual need. This spiritual need of dress is n...

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...t troopship coming over here. An’ when I was little an’ came over with the emi- grants from Poland, I thought I was goin’ to die. A man can 84 Three ...

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...aste of Kant was en- tirely English and Roman; as, on the other hand, some emi- nent Englishmen, I am sorry to say, have, on this very point, shown th...

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...ject; from the nameless oppressions by which he might harass and annoy the emi- grant; from the artful snares in which subtilty combined with power mi...

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...th the besieging army- they looked down upon the camp of the enemy from an emi- nence excelling by many feet that of the Pyramid of Cheops, and, by se...

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...esterfield over- coat, with velvet collar, is still presentable. He is pre-emi- nently the respectable man of the party, and is certainly over forty, ...

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...actice, and on an- other as calculated to prevent voluntary and beneficial emi- grations from Europe to America. I mention these miscon- structions, n... ...en he looked forward to the time at which he must descend from the exalted emi- nence for ever, and reflected that no exertion of merit on his part co...

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... on us out of the clouds. On my way back here from Crampton’s I met a most emi- nent Q.C., a man whom I briefed in the case that made his name for him...

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...r at different sea- sons. Nor shall we gather only the testimonies of such emi- nent wits as would of course descend to posterity, and con- sequently ... ...e maltster of Romsey in Southamptonshire, and bred to the law under a very emi- 292 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 nent attorney; who,...

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...apacity of the hundredth person is only comparative; for the majority of the emi nent men of every past generation held many opin ions now known to ...

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...e, without refer ence to party, by voters who appreciate their individual emi nence. I can understand that persons, otherwise intelligent, should, f...

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...eft the King’s dominions. It was only a quarter of an hour by rail; and he emi grated, and settled just across the frontier, where he bought a bit of...

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...storical stories. Beyond ev- erything he tried to select details that were emi- nently significant. Consequently he was of the opinion that the romanc...

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... God and worship. 1 This Sura was revealed at about the time of the first emi- gration of Muhammad’s followers to Abyssinia, A. 5. The manner in whic...

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...o think he was safe from pursuit, having gained the summit of the swelling emi- nence which divides Wolf’s Crag from the village, when he heard the di... ...oth in London and at Edinburgh, and he saw almost within his grasp the pre-emi- nence for which he had panted. The refreshments which the servants had...

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...s of brutal blood- shed which have of late come forth from pens of certain emi- nent wits,* if you turn away disgusted from the book, remem- ber that ...

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...ing the best of our set. Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an emi nent lawyer and made money, but died young. He and I had made a seri...