He is half-bewildered with the incongruity of the claim; and yet there is a certain propriety that a wild enthusiast should assert his sovereignty over a nation of bigots; so he sarcastically adopts the title.
This strange combination of the enthusiast and the dissembler, of the fanatic and the philosopher, may be very difficult to realise; but there can be no doubt that they did unite in the person of Julian.
While Schiller devotes himself to the history of the race, and becomes an enthusiast for the social progress of mankind, Goethe, on the other hand, applies himself to the study of the individual, to nature and to art.
While the soul of this stern enthusiast flitted to its account, that of the brave and generous Lord Evandale was also released.
For he is above all things an enthusiast in his profession.
So died the simple-hearted, valiant enthusiastwhom we had christened Othello.
From her youth she had been such an enthusiast on the subject of equality that even in the matter of ability she regarded all men as essentially equal, assuming only the most trifling difference between the genius and the ordinary man.
The support given to Messianic calculations by so thoughtful and respected a man as Isaac Abrabanel, together with Kabbalistic fancies, seems to have encouraged an enthusiast to predict the immediate realization of Messianic ideals.
For thirty consecutive days the Portuguese enthusiast led this miserable existence, neither eating meat nor drinking wine, but contenting himself with the scantiest and poorest fare, and waiting for the prophetic ecstasy.
What at last became of the prophetic and Messianic enthusiast and adventurer is not known.
So low was the general intelligence, that this half-insane enthusiast found old and young to listen to him.
That young enthusiastfrom Portugal made so overpowering an impression upon him, that Karo allowed himself to be initiated into the tortuous mazes of the Kabbala and to share Molcho's Messianic dreams.
Tis the decay of a once splendid harlot, Painting her ruin, that the enthusiasteye Lives on the recollection still, and thus The alms of passers by still meet her cravings.
He certainly was an enthusiastin his sentiments of this equilibrium; and fully convinced that he himself, of all the potentates in Christendom, was the only prince capable of adjusting the balance.
Since that period he had been induced, by disgust and ambition, to change his principles again, and was in secret an enthusiast in jacobitism.
Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life.
My daughter is an enthusiast for nature," remarked Mr. Walton.
He could not altogether despise his mother's faith, but he regarded her as a gentle enthusiast haunted by sacred traditions.
Whilst the worship of the Church of England was proscribed, every illiterate or frenzied enthusiast was allowed to harangue at his pleasure.
Therefore he becomes an enthusiast over many things during the course of his lifetime.
An Enthusiast ΒΆ "Enthusiasm does all things" said Emerson, and therein explained why this type accomplishes so much.
I am an enthusiast myself, but twenty-five years of experimenting and experience have made me a cautious and discriminating enthusiast.
Mr. Hodge is a co-operative enthusiast and probably considers that the result which he sees flowing from his efforts are due to the working of co-operation.
Rather would they have thought her a sublime enthusiast breathing forth the worship of a grateful soul.
Long before the enthusiast had spent his breath or his details, the minister cried 'Enough!
It was not likely that he would henceforth become an enthusiast over the competitive system of railroading.
And in the end he has become as great an enthusiast as I am.
I found a dignified man with the eyes of an enthusiast and filthy locks.
The enthusiast had played his game with more zeal than discretion.
The act of theenthusiast is often tainted with folly.
It was characteristic of the enthusiast that he was, when Radisson did not sign a strictly business contract with the Hudson's Bay Company.
France would not advance the enthusiast one sou, but granted him a monopoly of the fur trade in the countries which he might discover.
The enthusiast for humanity leaves out of consideration persons as far as his enthusiasm extends, and walks in a vague ideal of sacred interest.
Nevertheless, the trueenthusiast need not be discouraged.
The nearest that the enthusiast might approach to such an ambition would be in the accumulation of hall strips; which has its own temptations, quite within the possible.
Mr. Price is a gun enthusiast and he is real good at it, and he has been doing it for a long time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enthusiast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
