We have only to read of the heroic achievements of little Joan of Arc for an example of such manifestation of reserve power.
Now is the time when you are laying the foundations for your mental achievements in college.
My mind had been able to anticipate something of the achievements of human thought, but of the patient work of the artist I had not had the smallest conception.
Such a man, with such a record of achievements to His credit, could not, indeed did not, escape either the detection or the fury of a vigilant and fully aroused enemy.
Such marvelous achievements were now to be crowned by, and attain their final consummation in, her martyrdom in the midst of the storm that was raging throughout the capital.
It determined to supplement its notable achievements with further acts designed to throw into sharper relief the status achieved by the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh in the North American continent.
The 7th Division's performance, during its three weeks east of Ypres, will go down to history as one of the most remarkable achievementsin the records of war.
It may fairly be said that the British victory at Troyon on September 14th was one of the most brilliant achievements of the War.
Footnote 13: Vide Napier's Peninsular War for an account of the militaryachievements of the Spaniards.
And after that event we find the cavaliers of Leon, Navarre, and Castile equally renowned for their achievements in war and their romantic devotion to the fair sex.
Moussa, whom the success of Tarik had greatly exasperated, wishing to remove a lieutenant whose achievements eclipsed his own, preferred an accusation against him to the caliph.
His military exploits and his love of science prove this caliph to have been no ordinary man; but then the glory of his achievements was tarnished by his cruelty to the Barmacides.
His achievements having won for him the hearts of his countrymen, Zagel now conceived the design of dethroning his brother and nephew, and of appropriating the dominions of both to himself.
But in the absence of records of their activities authentic history must confine itself to the achievements of the Portuguese.
Hence the achievements of the exceptional workmen were limited by the status of slavery as surely as the progress of the generality was restricted by the fact of their being negroes.
He was lavish in his praise of the achievements of the "American navy," and was sure that no nation on the face of the globe had ever displayed such skill and energy in creating a war marine.
The most extensive and careful preparations were in progress for the events which, a few days later, astonished the world even more than the splendid achievements of the fleet below New Orleans.
There is a wide distance between the achievements of this untaught lad of humble birth and narrow opportunities, and the works of the great Sir Walter, with his matured powers and his stores of solid antiquarian lore.
Thus the innumerable achievements of the said Don Quixote are now set down to my account and have become mine.
Certainly it was Christianity in a doctrinal form that inspired the greatest achievements of the Christian Church in the course of her history.
Man, then, in his powers and destinies is not to be judged by his likeness to the brutes, but by what he possesses over and above the qualities of animal life, by those achievements and endowments to which animals have failed to attain.
Their achievements have been simply the expression of the vitality and nerve force which can no more be repressed than the power of an engine when it has been once liberated.
He accused Scott of trying to belittle his achievements at Churubusco (=364=to S.
His achievements were the temporary triumphs of autocratic will-power.
It is absurd to take separately the details of a great work like Njála, or of less magnificent but not less perfect achievements such as the story of Hrafnkel.
Another of his achievements was the conversion of a barrel organ, purchased from a neighbouring church, into a manual, obtaining the wind therefor by a pedal arrangement which worked a large wheel attached to a crank working the bellows.
This dog emulated the achievements of Newton's "Fido," and tore and devoured some leaves of the parson's sermon.
Some was bought, but Martyn aspired to make whatever he could; I did a good deal, and I believe most of our achievements are still extant.
All his achievements were, however, poured forth by himself and Clarence to Emily and me, and we felt as proud of them as if they had been our own.
To the youth of Norway Fridtjof Nansen's character and achievements stand out as a bright model, a glorious pattern for imitation.
In the case of Sun Wu, whose fame and achievements were so brilliant, the omission is much more glaring.
It was felt to be only right and proper that one so well versed in the science of war should have solid achievements to his credit as well.
Their great achievements were all for the good of the people.
And yet if one realizes his method of work, and the calm, uninterrupted flow of all his earlier life, perhaps his achievements become more intelligible.
Kepler, for instance, and many men before and since, have far excelled Galileo in mathematical skill and power, though at the same time his achievements in this department are by no means to be despised.
Of his scientific achievements those now reckoned most weighty, are the discovery of the Laws of Motion, and the laying of the foundations of Mechanics.
The earlier achievements of science were made without the conscious observance of any Scientific Method; and we should never have known by what process truth is to be ascertained, if we had not previously ascertained many truths.
I have quite a record of scientific achievements back in the twentieth century.
He straightened, twisted his lips into a smile and waited for Miss Terry to associate his name with those scientific achievementsthat had so startled the world a hundred years earlier.
If these grand achievements in finance have had so important an influence in sustaining the war for the Union, it is not likely they will fail to constitute a large element in controlling the political events of the immediate future.
The achievements of the Treasury are in fact the greatest of all our victories; they underlie and sustain the prowess of our armies, while they signalize the confidence and the patriotism of our whole people.
From victories won they look to other battlefields; from every height of knowledge they peer into the widening nescience; from all achievements and possessions they turn away toward the unapproachable Infinite, to whom they are drawn.
We exaggerate the importance of our own achievements and think that which we have accomplished is the best; whereas the wise hold what they have done in slight esteem, and think only of becoming themselves nobler and wiser.
This thought it was that started the train of reflections on the intellectual achievements of women which eventually gave rise to the idea of writing a book on woman's work in things of the mind.
Is it probable that the future will bring forth women whose achievements in science will rank with those of Euler, Faraday, Liebig, Leverrier, Champollion and Geoffry Saint-Hillaire?
In recognition of her achievements President Porfirio Diaz nominated Mrs. Nuttall honorary professor in the Mexican National Museum.
He is bubbling over with information about the achievements of the Spanish conquistadores and the subsequent history of the lands over which they established their sway.
Their achievements have, in most cases, been so overshadowed by those of men that their work has been usually regarded as a negligible quantity.
It is rather her marvelous achievements in the domain of the higher mathematics.
Still more remarkable were the achievements of four sisters of the noted family Anguisciola of Cremona.
All who are interested in the intellectual capacities and achievements of woman must regret that she was unable to complete what would undoubtedly have been the noblest monument of woman's scientific genius.
The subject of my book thus, by a process of elimination, narrowed its scope to woman's achievements in science.
One loves to speculate regarding Maria Gaetana's possible achievements if she had continued during the rest of her life that science in which, during a few short years, she had won such distinction.
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