Two nations, preeminent above all the rest, represent to us the force of derived mind on either side.
Thirty years later, Henri Estienne, in his Precellence du Langage francois, could assert that French is the best language of ancient or modern times, just as Salviati in 1564 had claimed that preeminent position for Italian.
In Capriano's Della Vera Poetica (1555) poetry is given a preeminent place among all the arts, because it does not merely deal with actions or with the objects of any single sense.
In the biographies of eminent scholars, it is curious to observe how many indicated in youth preeminent ability.
This question the public has answered for us; for I believe there is scarcely a preeminent man of science or letters, at home or abroad, who has not received a popular nomination for the vacant professorships.
The regional governments fought each other for centuries, though at times venturing into collective security pacts entrusting authority to a preeminent king for defense against the outer barbarians.
As the preeminent leader in an organic society, the emperor held a position comparable with that of other family heads.
The preeminent mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunity--not a guarantee, but a real opportunity--to build better lives.
Indeed they are by common consent regarded as Bantus in a preeminent sense, and this conventional term Bantu itself is taken from their typical Bantu language[254].
General Enna, a brave officer, in command of the Spanish troops, made two charges in column on the centre of the invaders' line, but was repulsed by that deadly fire which is the preeminentcharacteristic of American troops.
Preeminent in brilliancy among the constellations is the Southern Cross, a galaxy of stars that never greets us in the north.
Thy beauty, O King Messiah, is preeminent above the sons of men.
If the horse is taken to mean earthly honor, the rider of the horse is undoubtedly to be understood as he who is preeminent in honor.
Preeminent among them in importance was a solemn manifesto signed by the two Archbishops and by all the Bishops who were then in London, twelve in number.
High above the crowd of offenders towered one offender, preeminent in parts, knowledge, rank and power.
In those superficial graces for which the French aristocracy was then renowned throughout Europe, Villeroy was preeminent among the French aristocracy.
Either way, these grand and pathetic members stand as preeminent as the head in the pictorial history of our Lord, having seldom been equalled in beauty of form, and never in power of speech.
And it was fitting that it should be held at San Francisco, the Queen City of the West, because it was of preeminent importance to the Pacific slope.
What made him preeminent was his quick mind and indomitable will, of which his body was only the servant.
Of the high importance of the intellectual faculties there can be no doubt, for man mainly owes to them his preeminent position in the world.
It lays great stress on the old prescript of isolation and pure fertilization, but it will have to be worked out and applied to a large number of practical cases before it will gain a preeminent influence in horticultural practice.
Moreover the principle of unit-characters, the preeminent significance of which has come to be more fully recognized of late, is in full harmony [659] with the theory of sudden mutations.
It is the one great principle now in universal practice as well as one of preeminent scientific value.
While the motives just described were unquestionably preeminent among the causative factors in monasticism, it should not be taken for granted that there were no others, or that either or both of these motives controlled every monk.
To understand the character of the powerful forces set in motion by the coming of the monks to Rome, it is necessary to know the leading spirits whose preeminent abilities and lofty personalities made Western monasticism what it was.
IV 724): "Before this I lost my brave lion-hearted husband who was preeminent among the Danaoi for every kind of excellence.
After that first work the world knew that Bastien-Lepage was a preeminent portrait painter, and he did not betray the promise of his youth.
Here, and not in the provinces, lives that fashionable, thinking world which has become the guide of the nation and the censor of beauty, by the refinement of its taste and its preeminent intellect.
Plutarch expressly distinguishes from the hetaerae a class known as "emancipated women," whose preeminent virtue, however, was certainly not modesty.
There were in Athens statesmen, philosophers, artists, dramatists, historians, men preeminent in all departments of the higher life.
Thus it is not surprising that we should find Greek women preeminent in the art of medicine.
The young man and the pulpit are therefore preeminent in conspicuity.
Behold yourself preeminent in your field of effort.
These achievements unquestionably make us preeminent today in space exploration for the betterment of mankind.
Preeminent among the warriors was the swift-footed Achilles.
Theseus= is the Attic counterpart of Hercules, not so significant in moral character, but eminent for numerous similar labors, and preeminent as the mythical statesman of Athens.
That which is preeminent above all other gifts, is incorruptible in nature, and pertaineth to God Himself, is the gift of Divine Revelation.
But, among the awful considerations that now bow down my mind, there is one that stands preeminentabove the rest.
If unassisted human nature, spell-bound by a childish mythology, have done so much, what may we not hope for from the supernatural efforts of preeminent genius, which spake as it was moved by the Holy Ghost?
He is, of course, preeminent in all purely poetic achievements, but his poems can never minister to the spirit in the way Wordsworth's do.
That power of the old artists to paint or to carve a man, to body him forth, almost re-create him, so rare in the moderns, Carlyle had in a preeminent degree.
Already, it has been seen, how preeminent was the support received by it from his munificence.
To make certainty more sure, two preeminent ones shall, however, be brought to view.
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