The French," he cried in January, while Pitt was foretelling a glorious future for the new Constitution, "the French have shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin who have hitherto existed in the world.
He was considered one of the ablest officers in the army; but he had lately gone home in disgust, for, like Arnold, had been passed over by Congress in the list of promotions.
James Wilson of Pennsylvania, one of the ablest of all the delegates in the revolutionary body, urged that Congress had not yet received sufficient authority from the people to justify it in taking so bold a step.
Pelatiah Webster, the ablest political economist in America at that time, a thinker far in advance of his age, was almost alone in insisting upon taxation.
Thus did that wonderful balance of mind--so great that in his whole career it would be hard to point out a single mistake--already impress his ablest contemporaries.
Washington wished to have Greene appointed, as the ablest general in the army.
The whole country rang with his praises, and Washington regarded him as one of the ablest officers in the army.
Throughout this game of strategy, Lafayette had shown commendable skill, proving himself a worthy antagonist for theablest of the British generals.
We had retained the ablest counsel practicing in the court, but, with no tangible defence, their efforts were merely thrown away.
One of the ablest of his followers, a man whose work is still confounded with the master's, is Cariani, the Bergamasque, who at different times in his life also successfully imitated Palma and Lotto.
He became the leader, the foremost champion, of a system which was bitterly opposed by some of the ableststatesmen of the time as unauthorized by the Constitution.
Obviously, the volume is by far the best statement of one side of the railway problem; it is in every respect the clearest and ablestexposition of the railway companies’ case.
As the best that can be said on behalf of the Companies, this volume is invaluable: it is the ablest statement of the case which we have seen.
Undoubtedly McGillivray was unscrupulous, and the probability is that he was mercenary; but such charges may be brought against some of the ablest men who have figured in history.
Associations and combinations had been formed for the purpose of defrauding Whitney, and these were represented by the ablest lawyers that could be hired.
In that controversy some of Georgia's ablest men took part,--men who were famous as statesmen all over the country.
Illustration: Georgia Politics 264] In Georgia three of the ablest men still stood for the Union,--Alexander H.
One of the ablest was John Sergeant, a priest of the Roman Church, in Solid Philosophy Asserted Against the Fancies of the Ideists (1697).
He was regarded as one of the ablest officers who entered the army from civil life.
Mother and daughters all considered Monsieur Tiphaine as the richest and ablest man in the family.
Postal spirit, incomparably above public spirit, exceeds in brilliancy of resource and invention the ablest romance-writers.
We are told, too, that Nikias had recently lost by death Stilbidês, the ablest prophet in his service, and that he was thus forced to have recourse to prophets of inferior ability.
Unfortunately, the latter, though the ablest soldier of the three, was a poor man, of no political position, and little influence among the hoplites.
It is in every respect an original work, tracing the intellectual progress, examining the motives and policy, and illustrating the character and habits, of by far the ablest Roman Catholic prelate of recent times.
The spectral figures in the Dance of Death, the most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayed on canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly.
The historian Macaulay calls him 'the ablest civil servant I ever knew in India.
Delegation after delegation of Canada's ablest politicians have pilgrimed from Ottawa to Washington, seeking {155} better trade relations, with no result.
I regarded them then, and still do, as among the ablest discourses I ever heard.
But it is not enough to say of this work that it is enriched by contributions from not a few of the ablest writers which the present century has produced.
Each meeting of the Assembly might be addressed on the subject by some of its ablest men, in which case their statements and speeches would go forth, through the medium of the press, to the country at large.
When it was reported that Reynolds would stand as a candidate for the Borough of Plympton, and all the town was laughing at him, Selwyn remarked that he might very well succeed, "for Sir Joshua is the ablest man I know on a canvass.
The Opposition, who have Charles for their ablest advocate, is quite ashamed of the proceeding, and hates to hear it mentioned.
These views, if I understand rightly, are now abandoned by their ablest men; and it was full time that they should be so.
The fibres of his reasoning had waxed strong in encounters with the ablest intellects of the day and before the most distinguished audiences in the literary and debating clubs at Oxford.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ablest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
