The woman takes the excellences for granted, and if they are lacking, one of two things may happen: a great smashing of ideals, or an attack of heavenly blindness.
Wherefore, certain small excellences of character in the subject, brought to light by a better acquaintance, come in the nature of so many ecstatic little surprises.
Still his excellences were those of the intellect and not of the spirit.
If we consider what are the uses, and what the abuses, of a character of this type, we shall have some notion of the excellences and the defects of Shelley.
His supposititious modern-antique Poems of Rowley may, as actual achievements, have been sometimes overpraised: but at the lowest estimate they have beauties and excellences of the most startling kind.
The two friends had some points in common; but Maltravers had far more prodigality of nature and passion about him--had more of flesh and blood, with the faults and excellences of flesh and blood.
As a mass of individual excellences make up this attribute in a man, so a mass of such men thus characterised give a character to a nation.
Whatever are its excellences or defects, they are visible to all.
The exquisite drawing of the hand also, at least in outline, remained for this reason even to late periods one of the crowning excellences of the religious schools.
Mere finish was, however, the least of the excellences of these reformers.
He began every day to discover new excellences in his wife, which he readily acknowledged to herself, and to the world.
All these excellences I contemplate with a more heartfelt delight from the presumptuous hope that I may one day have the felicity of connecting myself still more intimately with them.
Allow me also to remark, that this invariable rule of exhibiting the doctrines of Scripture in their due proportion, order, and relative connection, is one of the leading excellences in the service of our Church.
Natural love of creatures, by which one loves them on account of reasons apart from love of God (such as the benefits one derives from them or the excellences they possess), is not charity, even though good.
She more than ever pointed out his excellences to her sons, contrasting his sterling qualities with Harry's love of pleasure (the wild boy!
The Revolt of the Tartars, while not exhibiting the highest achievement of the author's power, nevertheless belongs in the group of writings wherein his peculiar excellences are fairly manifested.
These are the excellences of the boy, that women do not possess, and these suffice and more to give boys the preference in grace and glory over women.
The woman possesses those very excellences of heart and intellect which most charm the man, and the excellences of the man are just those which the woman most highly prizes.
There is a different air and complexion in characters as well as in faces, though perhaps each equally beautiful; and the excellences of one cannot be transferred to the other.
The excellences of Mr. Beecher's style were due to a careful study of the great English writers; its defects to a temperament too eager to endure the dull work of correction.
Mr. Beecher's style was not artificial; its faults as well as its excellences were those of extreme naturalness.
Answering to this, all religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellencesof the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
Among the excellences of Madrid must be counted her museos.
Above all things, my dear, let us inculcate these great virtues and bright excellences upon our children.
Without strength and activity and vigor of body, the brightest mental excellences will be eclipsed and obscured.
Pity and helping grace, sympathy and authority--in these two excellences all the qualifications of a high-priest are comprised.
It is more to the purpose to remind ourselves that all these excellences are regarded by the Apostle as gifts of God, like the oft-descending rain, not as moral qualities in men.
It must, however, be borne in mind that the Ionians were less civilized in this respect than the Dorians, who had a higher regard for the excellences of women, and allowed them greater liberty.
In one sense, as the Greek philosophers argued, justice does include all the excellencesof a social being.
In his own person the poet realized the ideal combination of varied excellenceswhich his tragedies exhibit.
Sidenote: X] Next let us speak of Perfected Self-Mastery, which seems to claim the next place to Courage, since these two are the Excellences of the Irrational part of the Soul.
Sidenote:1144a] Now first we say that being respectively Excellences of different parts of the Soul they must be choiceworthy, even on the supposition that they neither of them produce results.
He kept a journal of his voyage and noted elaborately the defects or excellences of the various inns at which he put up, and of the wines and dishes of which he partook.
There must have been some peculiar excellences or adaptation to the Roman taste, through which, in spite of these defects, the popularity of the poem was sustained far into the times of the Empire.
His excellences are so different from those of Virgil that the question need not be entertained, whether the rank of the greatest of Roman poets is or is not to be awarded to him.
The diction and rhythm of the poem are characterised by excellences of a quite different sort from those of his other pieces.
In us you more easily pardon faults than excellences in each other.
If we add any to the number, and the literary world hears of it, we shall raise an outcry from hundreds who never could see either his excellences or his defects, and from several who never have perused the noblest of his writings.
Flattery will come before you in other and more dangerous forms: you will be commended for excellences which do not belong to you; and this you will find as injurious to your repose as to your virtue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excellences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
