It is this supreme and all-overshadowing importance of the interests at stake that must justify the earnestness and the minuteness with which the matter has been treated.
It was not easy for the parents to see the younger son leave school at so early an age, but the earnestness of the boy prevailed.
This crushed him, though both the senators had exerted themselves in his behalf with no less earnestness than in behalf of Coriolanus, and the popularity of his father Agrippa was not yet forgotten.
The frozen reluctance of the monarch could not withstand the fiery earnestness of the monk.
Without earnestness of renunciation the new life sinks back to the old or both are combined in an undifferentiated unity, with the consequence that the new life loses its power to stimulate to new endeavour.
The mixture of earnestness and humor, which were so closely interwoven in her nature that he could never tell which would come uppermost, had a strange attraction for him.
Goodness and earnestness will be a power to the end of time, however narrow the accompanying creed may be.
Goodness and earnestness appeal to the heart alone.
She was calm enough now, but her earnestness was unmistakable.
His frankness and earnestness of purpose appealed to her.
His face was aglow with earnestness and his voice shook as he finished speaking.
It is more general in scope than the other satires, but is nevertheless full of the moral earnestness that everywhere characterizes the author.
Mozart, in this world, was like an angel who could not but laugh, though without any malice, at all the bitter earnestness of mankind.
And yet his ultimate seriousness and the last secret of his beauty is pity, not for himself and his own little troubles, but for the whole bitter earnestness of mortal children.
But when the sword of genuine conviction has passed through your soul, when you are doing business in great waters, then you fling aside your platitudinous petitions and call out in solemn earnestness for help.
I asked, now convinced by her terrible earnestness that my suspicions were groundless.
In a well-conducted dog-fight each dog in turn has to attack the other dog, and one can see fierce earnestness blazing in the eye of the attacker as he hurls himself on the foe.
With painful earnestness he watched every detail of the other dog's toilet; and while the white dog was making fierce efforts to get at him, he stood Napoleonic, grand in his courage, waiting for the fray.
Napoleon had the post of honor of a first lieutenant for this festivity, and with grave earnestnesshe filled the duties of his office.
The dream of his first love had been dreamed away; and, perhaps to forget it, Napoleon again in Lyons gave himself up with deepest earnestness to study.
Then he began his story with all the earnestness and tragic power of an improvisator of ancient Rome.
The latter began to read over the sad paragraph, with that earnestness with which we often read again and again what is the most painful to our feelings.
At all events, the most wholesome feature of our modern institutions is to be found in the earnestness with which the Latin and Greek languages are studied over a long course of years.
He listened with his usual earnestness to all she had to tell him, and learned as much as he could from the description of her untrained observation of Cleopatra's symptoms.
There we see earnestness of purpose combined with heavenly aspiration and deep searching after truth.
Subsequent to this we see the light vanishing and earnestness giving place to triviality of thought, to the ravings of superstition, to the inanities of ceremonialism and to the laws of social and religious bondage.
The simplicity and earnestnessof the faith of most of the native Christians is beautiful.
It is proving a stimulus to the older faiths, stirring them up to an earnestness in moral teaching that they never knew in the olden times.
Devout prayer, purity, earnestness of life, and trust in Buddha himself as the only worker of perfect righteousness, are insisted on.
Glancing below the surface for a moment, we shall see that there is an earnestness of purpose which is the reverse of fickle.
He overawed them by his vehemence and tremendous earnestness and insistence on perfect obedience to his masterful will.
Legions were mustered, marshalled, and thrown in the field, with an earnestness and rapidity never before witnessed in the annals of warfare.
The ladies wore palmetto upon their hats or dresses, and showed by every way possible their earnestness in the great drama that was soon to be enacted upon the stage events.
But such was the intense earnestness of the man and the spiritual power that attended his message, that all attempts to "make game" of the services were soon abandoned, and not a few who "came to mock remained to pray.
Perhaps the wistful earnestness of his tone awakened latent mother instincts in the poor woman's heart.
If not actually eloquent, it had at least the earnestness of intense conviction.
It convinced me, too, of the thoroughearnestness of the Revolutionists.
I was never present at any debate, parliamentary, political, or religious, which developed more earnestness and bitterness.
With characteristic energy, Fremont plunged into the business of his new department, where chaos reigned, and he had no spell to evoke order, save the boundless patriotism and earnestness of the people.
I had witnessed a good deal of earnestness and enthusiasm in the South, but nothing at all approaching this wonderful uprising of the whole people.
