Kings, as Montesquieu points out, are less envied than aristocracies; for the king is too far above most of his subjects to excite comparisons, while the nobility is not so placed.
Certain demands of the cahiers excitesurprise by their frequent recurrence.
It has been the fate of Necker to excite strong enthusiasm and violent objurgation; but in fact he was little more than commonplace.
Why did the French government, the church, and the literary world so excite themselves about a dictionary?
He is unwilling to see the pen snatched from the hands of the slanderers of the Deity; but he has often tried to excite the powers that be against the least of his critics.
We can indeed perceive this even in actual events which excite the will in a lively manner, while primarily and in themselves they are merely objects of the intellect.
Luther had made all spiritual life centre in faith; the sacraments were thus nothing but ceremonies proper to excite this principal sentiment.
Not that she loved Mr. Schöninger, or for a moment fancied that she did; it was only that he had come near enough to excite her imagination on the subject of love.
Rale, artist as well as priest, had decorated his Indian church with pious paintings executed by himself, to excite the piety and zeal of his neophytes.
Anger is so becoming to you, I would always like to see you so, if it were not so painful to me to excite you thus.
Not because they were not interesting--for they were; but inasmuch as the man was not found, after all, it did not seem wise to harass and excite the reader to no purpose.
If there be anything in the history of Iowa and its wonderful development to excite a just pride, the other, and especially the older states of the Union may justly claim to share in it.
So to enlighten him was to excite in him a deep desire for liberty, and, not unlikely, a feeling of revenge toward his enslavers.
That the state of the country, and the great numbers of those people among them, expose the inhabitants to great danger from the endeavors of the enemy to excite them either to revolt or desert.
The religious disputants spoke in orderly succession, without appearing to feel or to excite enthusiasm, contented to detail their own doctrines, rather than anxious to controvert the doctrines of others.
We took the long way round the shore, for I feared toexcite my uncle if we struck across the island; and as we walked, I had time enough to mature the little dramatic exhibition by which I hoped to satisfy my doubts.
Quietly," said Mr. Archer, "you must not excite yourself.
It was certainly unusual, unheard of one might say, in those days, for an important government office to be conferred upon a railway official, though now it would excite but little surprise.
It would be idle for me to say that the warm congratulations of my friends, the prospects of change, and the sense of new responsibilities, did not delight and excite me.
Well, that did not excite me, and I wondered at his earnestness; but more was to follow.
He who thus grieves can excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
We feel that Macaulay's must have been a lovable character to excite such warmth of feeling, and a noble character to enable one who loved him to speak so frankly.
The old strenuous spirit has disappeared, or gone elsewhere--perhaps to excite a Puritan imagination, and create another incarnation of the old type of masculine vigour in the hero of 'Paradise Lost.
Even this is found to excite certain persons, and it is in such cases easy to substitute the thicker extracts of malt, or the Japanese extract, made from barley and rice.
Jealous he was, from temperament, from bad associations, and a want of confidence in the principles of his wife, the freedom of foreign manners having an additional tendency to excite this baneful passion to an unusual degree.
That love should be the offspring of this association, will excite no surprise.
There was such a general understanding between the two it can excite no surprise that they co-operated harmoniously as it were by signal.
I should think not" said the doctor, "but what can excite such a thought in your breast, and one so much to the prejudice of George?
New personages in comedies are introduced to excitenew interest; and was Coudrette ever before named in this island?
By these, and the like discourses, did this devout virgin excite others to charity, humility, vigilance, and every other virtue.
Saint Hilary solemnly appeals to God,[12] that he held it as the great work of his life, to employ all his faculties to announce God to the world, and to excite all men to the love of him.
It is not surprising that a man who bade open defiance to all sinners, and whose reputation ran so high in the world, should excite the murmurs of some and envy of others, which zeal and merit never escape.
This conduct of the saints, extraordinary as it is, ceases to appear surprising when we recollect the powerful arguments our Blessed Saviour made use of to excite us to the love of our neighbor.
To excite himself to compunction and to the divine praise, he made a collection of pathetic sentences, some of which he placed at the end of each psalm; several of which are found in certain manuscript psalters, as Fleury takes notice.
Besides, in our embodied state, they contribute to excite our souls to devotion; they are to our eyes, what words are to our ears, and by our organs move the affections of our hearts.
Otherwise it is impossible that things {110} so great and terrible should excite in us no fear, or that things in their own nature infinitely amiable, should enkindle in us no desire.
Besides, our going wouldexcite the settlers uselessly, and put Captain Curtis deeper into trouble.
I don't want to excite the settlers, and, besides, the troops are all needed here.
But maybe you are right--it would excite comment if I left the mess.
My mother," says Joseph, "moderated the expression of her grief that she might not excite mine.
With all this, I have not so much increased the taxes as to excite the discontent of the landed proprietors and the people.
Little did they then dream that their renown was soon to fill the world; and that each one of those children was to rise to grandeur, and experience reverses which will never cease to excite the sympathies of mankind.
How can you go about with that travelling-bag in your hand and not excite suspicion?
His house, afterwards occupied by Josephus, was so unpretending as to excite the wonder of those who saw it after he had become Emperor, and his entertainments were usually marked by a more than Sabine simplicity.
In that midnight and decadence of a dying Paganism the crime of ordinary murder was too cheap to excite remorse.
The sight of slaves in chains being hurried off to punishment was far too familiar to excite much notice in the streets of Rome, but it was torture to Onesimus to be thus exposed to the gaze and jeers of idle passers-by.
He held his drawn sword in his hand, lifting it again and again to excite the soldiers to louder cheers.
They are a low and grovelin set of peple, who excite a feelin of loathin in every brest where lorfty emotions and original idees have a bidin place.
He then retired to Vienna, and in 1812 he took part in the attempt to excite a second insurrection against Napoleon in Tirol.
The Sidereus Nuncius, published at Venice early in 1610, contained the first-fruits of the new mode of investigation, which were sufficient to excitelearned amazement on both sides of the Alps.
Does it not excite wonder with us that such refinements upon hideousness and repulsiveness could ever have provoked the worship or adoration of any one?
The chiefs are looked upon as the heads or fathers of the tribe, and they rely, to a large extent, for their influence over the tribe, upon their wisdom, and eminence generally in qualities thatexcite or compel admiration or regard.
The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.
Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the recesses of our hearts an attachment justly due to their beauty.
Yet if the traveller goes back a few miles from the river, the hop-kilns will still excite his curiosity.
The verses on his private affairs excitein me less indignation than pity.
