These eminent men were all justly celebrated in their respective countries; and it would perhaps be invidious to institute a comparison between them.
But the marquises, the counts, and the other illustrious nobles, were uneasy at this invidious distinction, and exerted all their energies to procure for their own wives the same honour.
The very rich are not singled out for peculiar, special, or invidious forms of imposition.
There has been no invidious singling out of a few rich men for special taxation.
Those, if the superior power had been severe and vigilant and vigorous, might have been of much use politically in removing government from many invidious details.
On one hand, government, daily growing more invidious from an apparent increase of the means of strength, was every day growing more contemptible by real weakness.
Very soon after his sending this embassy to Russia, that is, in the spring of 1792, a covenanting club or association was formed in London, calling itself by the ambitious and invidious title of "The Friends of the People.
Upon trial, however, in some instances, it had been found that the difference was sufficiently obvious, without marking it by any invidious distinction.
Even if the wrappers had been present, the general standard was too high for invidious selection.
But now--dear me, I can remember that I have made invidious remarks about New York, and have objected to the odors in Chicago, and have hated the Illinois Central turnstiles.
But this melancholy and invidious title is a favorite (and, like favorites, always of the least merit) with those who possess every other title upon earth along with it.
I do not mean to express, most certainly I do not entertain in my mind, anything invidious concerning the superintending authority of Great Britain.
None but dead monarchs are so much as mentioned by them, and those only to insult the living by an invidious comparison.
It is a difficult position which is the test of breeding,' said the Princess, triumphantly, 'and I deny entirely that it is what you call an invidious one.
There is nothing invidious in this, as I am the oldest of the company, and no claim is less likely to excite jealousy than that of priority of birth.
I have laid myself open to criticism by more than one piece of negligence, which has been passed over without invidious comment by the readers of my papers.
This incident he had at once subjected to the usual analysis, and had come to the conclusion that certain outside influences of an invidious kind had been brought to play upon the editor.
It is an invidious thing to compose a perpetual panegyric, yet it is difficult to speak of Shelley, and impossible to speak justly, without often praising him.
Of all those who had embraced the cause of the young princes, William, king of Scotland, was the only considerable loser by that invidious and unjust enterprise.
But his own vassals refused to serve under him in so invidious a cause; and he was obliged to come anew to a conference with Henry, and to offer terms of peace.
He proceeded to govern the kingdom by his sole authority; to treat all the nobility with arrogance; and to display his power and riches with an invidious ostentation.
I have always thought the following speech in which Helen laments Hector, and hints at her own invidious and unprotected situation in Troy, as almost the sweetest passage in the poem.
Without invidious distinction Mr. Fleischer may well be termed one of the foremost men of Prescott, loyal to every interest of general benefit, while his course in private affairs marks him as a man of high honor.
What shall I say in return of so invidious an objection?
Such invidious distinctions ought not to be permitted in a republic.
I have not in newspapers, to derogate from his fair fame with the nation, printed the first rude sketch of his bill with ungenerous and invidious comments.
If Mr. Bowles were not employed on it, I should have had no objection to have reduced my many thoughts to order and have published them; but this might now seem invidious and like rivalry.
It is almost invidious to name any in particular where the number is so great.
Is it perhaps invidious to single out any living author for special mention, but this brief survey cannot close without noticing the dramatic poems of W.
That recent blazing work in Tucson and in the San Simon had invoked the invidious admiration of a Sheriff who was lusting for fame.
He was mistaken, however, when he supposed that she had let the subject drop, and was going to resign herself to an invidious position.
I never believe anything I hear against anybody," said Beth, unconsciously quoting Ideala; "so please spare me the recital of all invidious stories.
You would have me sacrifice a position of safety for a position of danger--one that might be changed into an invidious position by the least indiscretion--and all for what?
This is not the only peaceful spot in the world," she said with a little sigh; "and I would rather live in London even than have you here in an invidious position.
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