I have been informed of these things by the Chinese who come hither, and that the emperor and other great men of China delight to hear accounts of our nation.
Footnote 145: These are fair buildings for the accommodation of travellers, many of which were erected by great men.
Besides all which they bargained for presents to sixteen chiefs or great men.
Such escapades as those of that terrible old sinner and ancestor of great men, the Reverend Stephen Bachelder, interest him as they never did before.
You are still more to be envied if you have the discontent which has impelled thousands of great men to devote their lives ceaselessly to the discovery of truth, working for others.
Science will conquer that trouble, as it has conquered others, and the scientist to do this work will be, himself, one of the world's great men.
When he saw Ralph and Richard come in, he nodded to them, as to men whom he loved, but were beneath him in dignity, and left not talking with the great men.
Great passions are oftener the weak, than the strong points of great men.
The world often finds fault withgreat men because they are cold; but they could not be great men if they were not cold.
The pitiless and incompetent judges later saw that they could not maintain their conduct without the help of great men, whom they won by saying that they would burn rich people, whose goods the great men should have.
Hildebrand's decrees were like the other crowning acts of great men,--they came at the culmination of a great movement in the mores.
There was, however, as I have said, another and a much more important element in the Council of Great Men, besides the chief landowners; it consisted of the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
These two points were, first, that he was surrounded by a very powerful and somewhat jealous body of Great Men; secondly, that he did not habitually give himself an imperial Roman title, but was called Rex.
This was the first element in that standing "Council of Great Men" which was the mark of the time in every locality and wore down the old official, imperial, absolute, local power.
The procession of Quincy's great men which we have been watching winds its way, as human processions are apt to do, to the old graveyard.
To have produced one family like the Adamses would surely be sufficient distinction for any one place, but the Adams family forms merely one unit in Quincy's unique procession of great men.
But not even the long line of the Quincy family completes the list of the town's great men.
That there is great likelihood that the secluded members will come in, and so Mr. Crewe and my Lord are likely to be great men, at which I was very glad.
Coventry in it, and considerations in general of the consequences of great men's actions, and the uncertainty of their estates, and other very serious considerations.
In the earliest history of that people, we discern an element of civilization, a vigorous action of the intellect residing in the body, independent of individuals, and giving birth to great men, rather than created by them.
Are "conditions of turmoil, stress and adversity" strong forces in the production of great men, as has often been claimed?
And how instructive as well as entertaining are those usual Expressions in the Mouths of great Men, Such Things as That and The like of That.
The Din which attends Victories and publick Triumphs is by far less eligible, than the Recital of the Actions of great Men by honest and wise Historians.
I do not claim to be a very intimate friend of great men.
Roosevelt had that reverence for the great men of the past which should stir every heart with a capacity for noble things.
The average person, who calmly sits back in his easy-chair and passes his verdict on the acts of great men, does not always allow for the play of emotions which may have influenced them.
He would not have it stand unchallenged, to shame his children after he was dead, or to furnish food for the maggots which feed on the reputations of great men.
That we all reverence "great men" is to me the living rock amid all rushings down whatsoever.
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