In the Codex Boturini, as is well known, are several important lapses that neither that eminent scholar, nor any other archæologist whose conclusions can be considered trustworthy, has been able to supply.
Nor have the doctors and eminent supporters of that church hesitated to avow the same principles in days that are past, though in modern times, it has been attempted to deny them, or explain them away.
This original book contains a short but interesting and accurate Biography of some eminent person for every day in the whole year.
During that summer we got our share of the business of the profession, then represented by several eminent law-firms, embracing names that have since flourished in the Senate, and in the higher courts of the country.
Lancaster, as a man possessing in an eminent degree those qualifications so much to be desired in a Judge of the Supreme Court.
While they were eminent for their learning, they were distinguished for the piety of their lives.
The fathers of the church were the most eminent for learning in their own days, and these insisted upon the Influence of the Spirit in spiritual concerns, as one of the first articles of their faith.
And this courage to dare to say what they believe to be right, as it was an eminent feature in the character of the primitive, so it is unquestionably a trait in that of the modern Quakers.
They are desirous of worldly honours, or of eminent stations, or of a public name, and pursue these objects in their passage through life with an avidity which disturbs the repose of their minds.
First, that the early Quakers were generally men of eminent learning.
The lady is Lucy Brown, daughter of one of our most eminent artists (he was the friend who first put into my hand the "Selections" from your Poems).
Perhaps, too, you will have pleasant talks with the eminent astronomers there.
I hear the "Eminent Women Series" is having quite a large sale in America.
Rivers, The late Mr. Thomas: of Sawbridgeworth, was an eminent horticulturist and writer on horticulture.
While eminent as an entomologist Heer is chiefly known as a writer on Fossil Plants.
Since his death, as during his life, opinion as to the place to which he is entitled among the eminent men of his country has touched every extreme.
It was impossible to suppress the policy without striking a deadly blow at its most eminent and powerful instrument.
Of the eminent Irishmen whose names adorn the annals of Trinity College in the eighteenth century, Burke was only contemporary at the University with one, the luckless sizar who in the fulness of time wrote the Vicar of Wakefield.
The late Lord Lansdowne, who must have heard the subject abundantly discussed by those who were most concerned in it, was once asked by a very eminent man of our own time, why the Whigs kept Burke out of their cabinets.
The absenteeism of her men of genius," an eminent historian has said, "was a worse wrong to Ireland than the absenteeism of her landlords.
This was the last circumstance in the acquaintance of these two eminent men.
I could have gone out and interviewed some eminent human without getting any more copy than I did from my lonesome little black squirrel.
When I get near the stable the kitten that the children have named after an eminent statesman gets on the path in front of me, purring and rolling on his back so that I can tickle him with the toe of my boot.
At length a buzz among the crowd who filled the floor,--and the name of Fox repeated in every tone of congratulation, announced the pre-eminent orator of England.
It is remarkable that, at such periods in the history of nations, some eminent individual comes forward, as if designated for the especial office of a national guide.
The cavalry, though seldomer sent on foreign service, exhibited pre-eminent bravery in the Peninsula, and their charges at Waterloo were irresistible.
Women are pre-eminent in steady endurance of tiresome suffering: they need not be far behind men in a becoming courage to meet that which is sudden and sharp.
The same happens if he has one pre-eminent idea of any kind, even though it should be a narrow one.
An eminentartist friend of mine lived in a part of the town where organ-grinders greatly congregate.
Although a good deal surprised, they obeyed without question; for our hero possessed, in an eminent degree, the power of constituting himself a leader among those with whom he chanced to come into contact.
In speaking of eminent publishers, I must not forget to mention Mr. Catnach, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for having been the first to introduce me to the literary career I have since so successfully followed.
The person on whom public hatred chiefly fell, and who proved in a far more eminent degree than any other individual the evil genius of this unhappy sovereign, was Laud.
That this has been the opinion of all the most eminenttheologians at home and abroad.
Love, an eminent presbyterian minister, lost his head for a conspiracy, by the sentence of a high court of justice, a tribunal that superseded trial by jury.
Both were eminent masters of human nature, and played with inferior capacities in all the security of powerful minds.
The Duke of York took pains to assure Owen, an eminent divine of the independent persuasion, that he looked on all persecution as an unchristian thing, and altogether against his conscience.
The Crown lands, those of the church, the estates in certain instances of eminent royalists, had been sold by the authority of the late usurpers; and that not at very low rates, considering the precariousness of the title.
The third son was articled to an eminent attorney; the others were sent to school.
Were we to imagine in England a Walhalla erected to contain the effigies of great men, and were one especial hall to contain those of our most eminent dramatists, it must needs be so constructed as to have one central niche.
With hiseminent gifts of mind and person, a brilliant career in society lay open to him, but he aimed to be something more than a mere man of fashion.
By a strange combination, no natural quality of mind was more remarkable in Madame Swetchine than her good sense: the only feature that shone above it was her eminent gift of piety.
Many eminent men have used chambers in Lincoln's Inn, since it became the resort {842} of legal students.
The men with whom she was most intimate have all more or less been known to fame, and are eminent also for their religious spirit.
There the most eminentprelates of their time were seen side by side with the greatest dramatists, historians, and poets.
We are pleased to learn that two valuable appendices are to be added to the American translation of this important work; one by an eminent Jesuit on the history of the Church in Ireland, the other by the Rev.
The account given of the first Missionaries of the United Brethren, whose entrance upon the inhospitable and icy coasts of Greenland was in 1733, among whom was that eminent servant of the mission, Matthew Stach, is truly interesting.
Mr. Robert Giffen, the eminent statistician and economist, who was also an officer in the Board of Trade.
This doctrine is supported in the House of Commons by eminent merchants, manufacturers and capitalists.
The disillusionment of aneminent advocate of nationalization, Mr. W.
Sir, I say every nation has some eximious virtue; and your country is pre-eminent in the glory of fish for breakfast.
Primarily, from certain traits of his character, one would have imagined him called to be a citizen of eminent respectability and worth.
By the various letters which have been submitted to your honor in his behalf, you will see that he commands the respect and the sympathy of a large majority of the most forceful and eminent men in his particular world.
He stood possest of no one eminent gift, but a most odious and fiend-like disposition, that would turn charity itself into hate, much more envy, for the present.
I can bear testimony to his practical piety, his eminent godliness, his deep devotional spirit.
Thomas Charles, of Bala, who at that time was considered one of the most eminent clergymen in Wales.
In pursuing their studies, fortunately they had this great advantage in their favour,—namely, that their parent was a ripe scholar and an eminent man of letters, while as a teacher he possessed abilities of the highest order.
