The aspirations of the pre-American Filipinos are the same as the aspirations of the Federal Party: aspirations which can never be realized till the character of the aspirant radically changes.
Hazlitt quotes a proverb to a like effect: 'He that does what he should not, shall feel what he would not.
Several passages from this Tale are quoted and illustrated by Warton, Hist.
Though the declaration of war had popularised Madison in the South and West, and, in a measure, solidified the Republicans in the North, the young aspirant still counted on a majority of malcontents and Federalists.
Admitting that he had brought the people up to the point of accepting a temperance candidate for governor, I remarked that another aspirant had 'stolen his thunder.
The appearance and air of this young aspirant for liberty indicated that he was not of the material to be held in chains.
When the great struggle came between the confederate monarchs and the aspirant after universal dominion, it placed him on the side of the allies.
And did we not make special provision for this, when we said that the disciples of philosophy were to be orderly and steadfast, not, as now, any chance aspirant or intruder?
Rice as United States senator, and that another aspirant was at least equally desirous.
The other principal aspirant was Cyrus Aldrich of Minneapolis, who had been representing the second district in Congress in a very acceptable manner.
Washburn, who had been an aspirant in 1868, but declined the candidacy because of the great defection led by Ignatius Donnelly.
But this latest aspirant to literary fame had two magnetic qualities which seldom fail to arouse the jaded spirit of the reading public,--novelty and mystery, united to that scarce and seldom recognised power called genius.
Well, I see that yonderaspirant to the dramatic art is beautiful by virtue of her originality and alone possesses more distinction than all the rest of them taken together.
They mocked the defeated aspirant with their glances; burning taunts and jibes began to fall from all sides like stones upon her soul crushed by an unexpected blow.
His ambition had never soared above that, and while serving in the house on Snow Hill, his utmost envy had been excited by the youthful aspirant who there walked the boards, and with an oily courtesy handed chairs to the ladies.
The gloss and gilding wear away, as they wear away also from the heart of the adventurer, and then the smallaspirant sinks back into the mass of nothings from whom he had thought to rise.
He was therefore a disappointed aspirant to office, and at such a period it was not surprising that he should have become an enemy of the constituted authorities and the government.
There was Joseph's dream, with the tall sheaves of the elder brethren bowing to Joseph's sheaf, like these aged heads around the youthful aspirant of to-day.
No doubt there are certain great cardinal and leading principles with which the mind of every aspirant should be stored.
The literary aspirantmust have foreseen the coming crash, and must have felt that the exile was to be again the liberator, and perhaps the master, of his native land.
The disappointed but stubborn young aspirant remained in his subordinate place as an officer of the second battalion of the Corsican national guard.
The members of the former must be at least forty years old and married; every aspirant for a seat in the latter must be twenty-five and of good character.
Let every youthful aspirantremember this history; and that if criticism could prevail over genius, we should not at this moment have one great established poet on our list of fame.
At Oxford, one who stands upon the foundation of the college to which he belongs, and is an aspirant for academic emoluments.
At Oxford, this word is used to designate one who stands upon the foundation of the college to which he belongs, and is an aspirant for academic emoluments.
Moreover, noaspirant to footlight honors ever can be convinced that actors must be made as well as born, and that there may be a few people in the world, who, given the opportunity, would not become Modjeskas and Mansfields.
It is too much to say that one aspirant in a thousand achieves real success.
The temptation is the stronger, as the rewards are more numerous, if the aspirant happens to be a woman.
This is the common error, the rock on which the histrionicaspirant is oftenest wrecked.
The incision when first made is about the size of a quill, but as the aspirant for improved beauty grows older, the size of the orifice is enlarged until it reaches a width of half or three quarters of an inch.
The consent of the father of the intended bride being obtained, the aspirant for nuptial honors brings wood and builds a fire in the bath-room; after which, he and the father take a bath together.
Lady Canterville seemed to wish their aspirant to come forward more, to give certain assurances and pledges.
As a result, the strictly literary tastes of the people took a theological turn and the Bible became the theme of every aspirant to authorship.
