Chinon lies at the foot of the rocky eminence which is crowned by the ruins of the famous castle.
For secondary education somewhat better provision was made, practically the only method of attainingeminence in the state being through the schools (see Sec.
He is engaged in some business of the Cardinal's, and it was his Eminence himself who presented him to St James.
Now, most of these Recruiters, from the very conditions of their election, were Parliamentarians, and some had even attained eminence in that character since their election.
Born about 1552, the younger son of a Wiltshire squire, he had passed from Oxford to the study of law at Lincoln's Inn, and had attained to high eminence in his profession before the death of Elizabeth.
The excellence to which the Etruscans had attained in sculpture and architecture, forms a presumption of their proficiency in those sciences which are essential to eminence in the arts.
Great men have risen to eminence in great monarchies like France, and they have risen to eminence in a great commonwealth such as England, without the patronage of courts, by the support, the sympathy, the love of a great nation.
But where, during those years, are the men of sufficient eminence to represent the age in which they lived?
We have already seen that Minerva, not satisfied with being goddess of Wisdom, claimed also pre-eminence in beauty, although Paris by his judgment, gave the palm of loveliness to Venus.
We will not go the length of asserting that she retains her proud pre-eminence solely upon the condition of keeping twenty years ahead of other nations in the practice of mechanical arts.
It was held that there was something uncanny in the event that gave the name of Gallows Hill to an eminence near Falls Village, Connecticut, for a strange black man was found hanging, dead, to a tree near its top one morning.
A phenomenon similar to the Moodus noises, and locally known as "the shooting of Nashoba Hill," occurs at times in the eminence of that name near East Littleton, Massachusetts.
That military training, military experience and military eminence should be the qualifications for our Minister for the Army.
That naval training, naval experience and naval eminence should be the qualifications of our Minister of Marine.
Military training, military experience and military eminence being the qualification for this office.
Naval training, naval experience and naval eminence being the qualification for this office.
But in my recollection Randolph Churchill shares with him pre-eminence in the quintette.
With the eminence is connected the prospect of pecuniary prosperity, yet this is not consummated, but only in prospect; it may be a long time before anything is realized.
This eminence he fairly earned by one splendid invention.
Let profit have the pre-eminence of honour in the end of poetry; pleasure, though but the second in degree, is the first in favour.
The Gathering of the Ulstermen and the Final Battle of the Táin By this time King Conchobar and his warriors have come out of their debility and summoned their forces to an eminence in Slane of Meath.
A number of characters, of the greatest eminence in this country, object to this government for its consolidating tendency.
Perhaps it would be true to say that, excepting Washington, Jefferson, and Richard Henry Lee, no Virginian ofeminence was absent from it.
The history of St. George is more obscure than that of any name of equal eminence in the Calendar.
The eagle, we need scarcely stay to point out, obtained this pre-eminence as being the bird of Jove.
He would congratulate himself upon the numbers he had seen below him from that eminence of the pulpit and would have been hurt beyond degree had any one suggested it was largely habit that brought them there.
These signs of pre-eminence had the virtue of wreaths without their inconveniences, which might have produced a melancholy effect in the heat of the ball-room.
Pre-eminence is sweet to those who love it, even under mediocre circumstances.
And poor Gwendolen had never dissociated happiness from personal pre-eminence and éclat.
Peele's eminence as a dramatist, then, must be sought for in the two features of his work mentioned in our opening sentence, namely, sweetness of versification and graceful pastoralism.
General Smith's position was on an eminence about one thousand yards from the enemy's works, from which point he made the attack.
At the haven when found I bind myself to erect on some eminence near the shore of the island, which can be seen from Cape Olonek, a signal tower of driftwood or earth, like a Cossack mound, not lower than seven feet.
The sacrificial eminence was situated on the highest point of the south-western headland of Vaygats Island, and consisted of a natural hillock which rose a couple of metres above the surrounding plain.
Let them permit one another to develop as Providence seems to suggest, and the British race will gradually and quietly attain to a pre-eminence beyond the reach of mere policy and arms.
He never encountered any of those rare figures whose aspect seems to justify all traditions of pomp and pre-eminence when they appear amid stately scenes as with a natural sovereignty.
But as the Queen can select for this honourable appointment no one whose claims for respect and honour, on account of eminence as a poet, can be placed in competition with, yours, I trust you will not longer hesitate to accept it.
