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Example sentences for "personal character"

  • Lord Derby could not understand how the affair, however it might turn out, could affect the Queen's "personal character.

  • These are the dangers to "the Queen's personal character," which presented themselves to her mind when she wrote her last letter, and which Lord Derby says remained unintelligible to him.

  • The Dorian lyric poetry, in contrast with the Aeolian, had more of a public than of a personal character, and was for the most part choral.

  • This good consists in the realization of personal character; hence the final good, i.

  • The history of the Dorian lyric poetry does not present us with vivid expressions of personal character, like those of Alcaeus and Sappho, but rather with a series of artists whose names are associated with improvements of form.

  • For, I repeat, the only possible defence against a libel is to prove that it is a libel, and this cannot be done without reflecting upon the "personal character" of the libeller.

  • A mere literary discussion admits of parliamentary freedom alone, and properly excludes all reflections upon personal character.

  • Royce had most unparliamentarily turned his ostensible review into a libel, and, contrary to all canons of literary discussion, had indulged himself in reflections upon my personal character as malicious as they were false.

  • But when put to me as matter of taunt, I throw it back, and say to the gentleman, that he could possibly say nothing less likely than such a comparison to wound my pride of personal character.

  • The Minority Commissioners certainly do not ignore the fact that what has to be aimed at is not this or that improvement in material circumstances or physical comfort, but an improvement in personal character.

  • To use a metaphor from the card table, this improvement of personal character in the human subject is the "odd trick" for which social reformers are struggling, and by which alone success can be secured.

  • Our correspondence was frequent, mostly of a personal character, and our intimacy continued while he lived.

  • It may be done by irritating controversies of a personal character.

  • We had never had any controversy of a personal character.

  • We were agreed that a man's personal character ought to be the basis of his politics.

  • Bossuet did not long survive his inglorious triumph over so much sanctity of personal character, over so much difficult and beautiful height of doctrinal and practical instruction to virtue.

  • We have now indicated what was most admirable in Voltaire's personal character.

  • The immense importance of personal character is a subject which does not enough draw the attention of individuals or society, yet it is to the power of gaining influence, what the root is to the tree,--the soul to the body.

  • There are individuals who, by the sole force of personal character, seem to render wise, better, more elevated, all with whom they come in contact.

  • Has she ever been enlightened as to the consequent unspeakable importance of personal character as the source of influence?

  • It has, at last, a personal character; and is realised in the minds of its worshippers as a living spirit, with whom men may speak face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.

  • That is very true; but those are general distinctions of class, not special distinctions of personal character.

  • I have said Literature is one thing, and that Science is another; that Literature has to do with ideas, and Science with realities; that Literature is of a personal character, that Science treats of what is universal and eternal.

  • And, since the thoughts and reasonings of an author have, as I have said, a personal character, no wonder that his style is not only the image of his subject, but of his mind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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