I not certain she feels your excellencies as they ought to be felt, my veneration for you both should even yet spare you my present supplication.
It was indeed remarkable for two excellencies which are seldom found united in the same person--a facility of receiving impressions, and a firmness and precision in retaining them.
God can love nothing but himself, and his own excellencies or image appearing in his works; or his works so far as his attributes appear and are glorified in them.
On the contrary, those excellencies which lie down, like gold, and are discovered with difficulty—such as profoundness of intellect and morality—leave their possessors modest and humble.
But when a natural dignity of character exists, what a prepossession does it enlist in its favor, and with how few substantial and real excellencies are we able to pass creditably through the world!
Fresnoy calls colouring, which is one of the chief ornaments of painting, lena sororis, that which procures lovers and admirers to the more valuable excellencies of the art.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellencies which are out of the reach of the rules of art; a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
There are many petty excellencies which the Painter attains with ease, but which are impracticable in Sculpture; and which, even if it could accomplish them, would add nothing to the true value and dignity of the work.
It is not an easy task to point out those various excellencies for your imitation which lie distributed amongst the various schools.
Having said thus much on the union of excellencies, I will next say something of the subordination in which various excellencies ought to be kept.
To desire to see theexcellencies of each style united, to mingle the Dutch with the Italian School, is to join contrarieties which cannot subsist together, and which destroy the efficacy of each other.
Notwithstanding these glaring deficiencies, we justly esteem their works; but it must be remembered, that they do not please from those defects, but from their great excellencies of another kind, and in spite of such transgressions.
Suppose, for example, a question to arise respecting the excellencies or defects of a piece of music, we should not venture to place any dependence on the opinion of a man who has no taste for the science.
Very just is his Observation, A true Critick ought to dwell rather upon Excellenciesthan Imperfections, &c.
Why may not we propose one in the lowest Life, which will at the same Time prove, that the Excellencies of both Thought and Expression are in Nature, and not in the Rules of Art only.
It is a great occasion, which their Excellenciesgrace and improve.
Their Excellencies have gone, but they do not forget.
There is a great demonstration, their Excellencies attend--and the mayor presides.
I tell yourExcellencies it will be a serious business," said he.
The bearer of this letter can be employed by your Excellenciesas a courier or otherwise.
Your excellencies are aware what would be the fate of Hungary after such a war.
On the other hand, if we should be compelled against our wills to send our soldiers against the Christian camp, in conjunction with the enemies of our faith, we assure your Excellencies that our host will be a purely nominal one, etc.
The faults were those of his age; the excellencies were his own.
Wherefore your Peticioners do most humbly beseech your Excellenciesto use such effectuall means for the preventing the great Loss and damage which threatens them hereby, as to your Excellencies great wisdom shall be thought fit.
Passenger and the Pirate:[6] I humbly take leave to subscribe Right Excellent Your Excellencies Faithful and most Obliged servant CHA.
Spenser had studied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer; and amongst the rest of his excellencies had copied that.
Lynceus de Stella These contained in them all those excellencies whereof a commonwealth is capable; so that to have added more had been to no purpose.
Their names are familiar to every reader; their works have taken a lasting place in English as well as American literature; and their qualities and excellencies are so different as at once to invite and suggest critical discrimination.
But this does not alter the obvious excellencies of the work.
O ye fine ladies of England, who talk so glibly of all the virtues, and blazon your moral excellencies before the nations!
Madam, "It is a strange State of Mind a Man is in, when the very Imperfections of a Woman he loves turn intoExcellencies and Advantages.
A true Critick ought to dwell rather upon Excellencies than Imperfections, to discover the concealed Beauties of a Writer, and communicate to the World such things as are worth their Observation.
The Criticisms which I have hitherto published, have been made with an Intention rather to discover Beauties and Excellenciesin the Writers of my own Time, than to publish any of their Faults and Imperfections.
Their Excellenciesdivided the map of Europe according to the best interests of half a dozen dynasties and put "national aspirations" upon the Index, or list of forbidden books, together with all other dangerous "French doctrines.
If she had for a moment hesitated about sacrificing Herr Amandus to King Daucus, she was quite decided on the point now that she had an opportunity of assuring herself of all the excellencies of her future lord.
The Queen was giving audience to the Pope's Legate, to their excellencies the envoys from the Greek Emperor, to my Lord Conrad the Elector of Maintz, and many more nobles.
He had come forth," quoth he, "to counsel their excellencies to take horse.
He often lay back as though he were weary; and yet, when their Excellencies questioned him of any matter, he was ever ready with a swift and discreet answer.
A translator stands connected with the original author by a certain law of subordination, which makes it more decorous to point out excellenciesthan defects; indeed, he is not likely to be a fair judge of either.
It is no doubt the duty of an honest biographer to portray the prominent imperfections as well as excellencies of his hero.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excellencies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
