Here hangs the sign of the Duke of Cumberland's head; and there, grinning down on it from the elevation of Temple Bar, are the heads of the decapitated rebels.
This was a politic mode of procedure, with ordinary men, it is true; but with officers of the elevation of mind, and of the independence of character of our two admirals, it was most likely to produce disgust.
The world had taken little interest in the private history of a lawyer, and his sons having been born before his elevation to the bench, he passed with the public for a widower, with a family of promising boys.
The moral elevation of the fragment of Cicero thus preserved to us gave the work a popularity in the middle ages to which its own merits have little claim.
It is built on the open veld, at anelevation of 4194 ft.
His interest had been weakened in some places by the remodelling of the western boroughs: his pride had been wounded by the elevation of Trevor to the chair; and he took an early opportunity of revenging himself.
He was brought before the Privy Council, and interrogated by the King, but had too much elevation of mind to save himself by informing against others.
That his elevation to power might not seem to be merely his own act, he convoked a council, composed partly of persons on whose support he could depend, and partly of persons whose opposition he might safely defy.
Their teachers studied them carefully; confidence was gained, weaknesses sounded, elevation measured.
It was a rededication of lives long consecrated to God and humanity; of souls knowing no selfish ambition, seeking before all things the glory of their Creator in the elevation of his creatures everywhere.
Soon after, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, no doubt through the influence of his friend Lyell, who was quite enthusiastic over his splendid geological investigations on the rate of elevation in the Pampas and the Cordillera.
They have greatly contributed to the growth of knowledge, to the advancement of science, and to the elevation of mankind.
A happy elevation succeeded of course, the sudden, painful, but brief depression of their fortunes.
By these ladies she was urged to maintain her rights, to keep ever in view the dignity and elevation of her sex, and to let man, the tyrant, know, that a time was fast approaching when his haughty pride would be humbled to the dust.
There was a power of moral elevation about the article.
Those, therefore, who give themselves to the labour and care of uplifting the very low, have a deep interest in the religious elevation of the more refined and educated, as the classes act with marvellous effect upon each other.
Gillies gives it 2417 feet above the level of the sea, by barometrical observation, a greater elevation than the traveller from the pampas perhaps would imagine.
The favourite food of these animals is the ichu, a very coarse grass, which is only found at an elevation little short of that of perpetual snow.
After Sir James's elevation to the peerage, he came during the session from his residence in Guernsey to London, in order to attend his duty in Parliament, but did not join any party in politics.
The elevation of one of our citizens to one of the highest dignities of the kingdom, cannot fail to inspire us with the most lively gratification.
A milder day" is to dawn on the universe--the refinement of matter is to keep pace with the elevation of mind.
In 1830 that revolution occurred in France which eventuated in the elevation of the Duke of Orleans to the throne.
Lewis Tappan and myself took our places at his side as secretaries, on the elevation at the west end of the hall.
Harmony and melody," said he, "are the pleasure and elevation of my soul.
The elevationon which the house stood just pierced the fog, and, here and there below, the head of a tall pine emerged.
Then that piece of track elevation was finished and Steve was out of work for a couple of months.
Mount Ernest is little more than a mile in greatest length, of a somewhat triangular shape, its eastern and larger portion hilly, rising gradually to an elevation of 751 feet, and its western part low and sandy.
But what marks its elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds, and from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary.
People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and the trees; as it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought, or that librarians are wiser men than others.
It was an ill done portrait, and gave an affected thoughtfulness and elevation to his calm features which imparted insufferable pretension to them; Calvert held out the picture at arm's length, and laughed scornfully as he looked at it.
This was due to a variety of reasons or prejudices, not all of them creditable to a generous desire for the universal elevation of mankind, but one of them the historian will judge adequate to produce the result.
As a rule, there is little gain, either in instruction or in elevation of character, if the teacher is not the superior of the taught.
It seems to be the rule in all history that the elevation of a lower race is effected only by contact with one higher in civilization.
This contact may not have been a fruitful one for the elevation of the negro, but it proves that for ages he was in one way or another in contact with a superior civilization.
His worst enemy is the demagogue who flatters him with the delusion that all he needs for his elevation is freedom and certain privileges that were denied him in slavery.
Other influences have retarded his elevation and the development of proper character, and most important means have been neglected.
The men under Peter De Wet, the younger brother of the Commandant-General, were led to an elevation about a mile and a half south of Sannaspost, where they placed their cannon into position and waited for the break of day.
A small elevation near Durban and a spruit near Cape Town were marked as plainly as a kopje near Pretoria, while the British forts at Durban and Cape Town were as accurately pictured as the roads that led to them.
I determined to halt, and was looking about for a bush or some rock or slight elevation under which I might form my camp, when I found my horse's fore-feet sinking into the ground.
Happily we had formed it on a little elevation on the bank, so that the stream turned on either side, and the risk was therefore lessened.
If the work fails to survive, it will be because of its low elevationon the purely literary side.
His magnificent Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen in France has a nobility of phrase that matches the elevation of thought.
His wide and tasteful dwelling surmounted an elevation overlooking a pretty lakelet, and was environed by ample grounds filled with choicest shrubbery and flowers, where there were roods of the roses and lilies he loved and studied.
Nor could she have raised herself to the pitch of determination which she had reached had she not gained elevation from the thought that the matter now rested in her own hands, and that all Clement's trust and all his dependence were on her.
This ability came solely from the state of mental elevation in which I found myself.
