His caustic wit and literary attainments did much to forward advanced liberal views.
Studied at Edinburgh, and distinguished himself by his attainmentsin Greek and moral philosophy.
Distinguished by his attainments in ancient history, philosophy and chronology, he became member of the Academy of Inscriptions 1714.
Let us consider some of these more important attainments and try to see how naturally men grew to master them and how in obscure ages the human race travelled so far on the high road to progress.
This museum has been fortunate in its curators--all men of scholarly attainments and well versed in Egyptian history.
In the case of a nation the task becomes still more complicated, and we cannot today know how many of our ideas, inventions, and attainments have been shaped by nations whose light went out long centuries ago.
Let us reflect then upon theattainments of prehistoric man and attempt to fathom how great a debt historic peoples owe him.
It may be confidently affirmed that no ruler whose abilities and attainments would bear any comparison with his has ever shown such cold disdain for what is excellent in arts and letters.
Though Atterbury's classical attainments were not great, his taste in English literature was excellent; and his admiration of genius was so strong that it overpowered even his political and religious antipathies.
Fortunately, the language that we understand and use is that which is most easily understood by those of equal attainments with ourselves.
Much of our explanation to children and to those whose attainments are less than our own consists in substituting common, everyday words for less familiar ones.
Two persons--one in science and one in literature--because of their unusual attainments attracted much attention.
The attainments of some of these men were undoubtedly remarkable; the two United States senators, Hiram R.
And indeed it is an earnest, real, and hearty flow of affections that we have to covet in the midst of the more cultivated and orderly attainments of this day.
And if it be said that Lord Brougham's attainmentsare superficial only, we say that knowledge of detail does not of itself make a man competent.
Blyden, a man whose sterling character and scholarlyattainments gained for him international recognition.
He desired to see whether a black boy taken and trained at an English school and then at a university would not equal in intellectual attainments a white youth similarly educated.
Stuebel and Uhle and Mr. Bandelier, whose attainments and exhaustive researches in the region of Tiahuanaco qualify them to utter a final judgment upon this interesting subject.
These statutes are a decision by Congress that examinations of some sort as to attainments and capacity are essential to the well-being of the public service.
Follen, a German political refugee, equally distinguished for his literaryattainments and his love of liberty.
All the departments appeared to be conducted, under colored teachers, with great order and efficiency, and the attainments of the higher classes were very considerable.
Abilities, and training, and attainments that in the world of business would yield their possessors independent fortunes, or in the fields of authorship or politics result in honor and fame, are here freely offered.
The learners must respect the attainments and the authority of the teacher.
He was not only a classical scholar, with the limitations of those days; but, what was then rare, he made scientificattainments which greatly impressed those capable of judging, and he had a taste for art and a remarkable talent as an artist.
He was also a man of uncommon attainments in all the literary knowledge of his time.
Consequently he does all in his power to impress the public, and his relations and friends (and by no means forgetting his enemies) with his attainments and unusual knowledge.
I had often discovered inherent resemblances to the brute, or lingering traces of the savage, as I watched covertly the table attainments of a person who, under other ordinary conditions, appeared eminently correct.
It is perfectly right that you should admire the superior attainments and polished manners of a race not your own.
It is not always easy to determine how much is to be set down as truth, and how much belongs to the category of fiction, in the current stories of the scholarly attainments of princely personages.
Louis de Berquin was a man of high rank, whom friends and enemies alike admired for his uncommon acuteness of mind and his great attainments in letters and science.
His own attainments have been overrated, and posterity has too credulously believed all that admiring and interested courtiers chose to invent in his praise.
Brilliant attainments in so many departments were commended yet more to the admiration of beholders by a modest and unassuming deportment, by morals above reproach, and by a disinterested nature in which there was no taint of avarice.
He was urgent to know what standard of attainments would be needful, and finding Robert ignorant on this head, seized his hat, and dashed out in the gaslight to the nearest bookseller's for a treatise on surveying.
Nor was he overawed by the superior attainments of his instructors, and of the Examining Board.
His Christian character and his intellectual attainments made him as acceptable as a man as he was as a brave and skilful General.
Mr. Paine was also connected with an association of gentlemen of literary attainments which was organized in 1877.
The father was a man of high intellectual attainments and of unswerving integrity.
His business attainments place him with the foremost representatives of agricultural life in this section of the state.
To deride all the refined attainments of human skill denotes ignorance of the means of human happiness, nor is it any evidence of acquaintance with the intricate machinery of social greatness and a lofty civilization.
A bankrupt is a felon, though his mind, his virtues, and his attainments may be those of a god.
His classical attainments were of the first order, and I doubt if the Union furnished two better or more finished linguists than John A.
There were few more eminent as advocates, or more successful as practitioners, though his legalattainments were never of a very high order.
Her position was the first among the first, and her birth, blood, and attainments entitled her to the distinction.
To realize the expectations of the public, required abilities and attainments of the highest order.
Being conscious that my classical attainments were not very valuable, I determined to acquire some substantial knowledge of modern languages, and to begin by learning French over again, so as to write and speak it easily.
Withal, his scientific attainments were not only undoubted, but so considerable as to have won for him against many odds the reputation of a great scientist.
Back of the cold precision of his undoubted scientific attainments lurked, unexpected by most, a strong ambition and a less admirable hankering for the lime-light.
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