The attainment of Genius is not possible; the attainment of Probity is a possibility.
My name, the name of Bonaparte, will be inscribed on two pages of the history of France: on the first there will be crime and glory, on the second probity and honor.
Perhaps a Minister of Finance, in whose probity the world have a confidence, may restore their credit.
The same day the king spoke at table of the news, and praised greatly the probity of the Americans, raising his voice in such a manner that all the foreign ministers might hear him.
His character for probity is high in this country, and among the foreign Ministers at this Court.
It happened that Choiseul was more remarkable for his valor than for his probity and solid virtues, and could not inspire in Ninon's heart anything but the sterile sentiments of esteem and respect.
XXI The Comedy of Contrariness Probity in love, Marquis?
For, my lovely keeper of the casket, the reputation of your probity is established particularly upon the fact that you have resisted lovers, who would willingly have made free with the money of their friends.
Ingenuous Helen was sometimes your role, With her appetites, charms, and all else beside; Sometimes Roman probity wielded your soul, In honor becoming your rule and your guide.
The army suspect the probity of Xenophon—unjust calumnies against him—he exposes it in a public harangue, and regains their confidence.
Bellièvre, the Chancellor of France, whose probity and justice had rendered him dear to the people, in whose eyes the withdrawal of his Court favour only tended to enhance his valuable qualities.
He was born at Autun in 1540, where his father followed the trade of a tanner, and was universally respected alike for his probity and his sound judgment.
For these double reasons of probity and wrath, the Daily Tory was agreed to.
Who should need strength and probity in government, and the shelter of them, more than Money?
It was only when official probity or official selfishness came into conflict with capitalistic greed, that recrimination was aroused between the two heads of the body politic.
They were hopes based on the probity of a single man; for the impression still prevailed that Roman arms were invincible and had been vanquished only by the new vices of the Roman character.
Justice and probity had for a time been banished from the civil service of China.
His probity at the same time guarded him from that subtle sophistry which had even then begun to be adopted in the treatment of the Talmud.
His patron, Almansur, deposed him, and cast him into prison, the reason of his condemnation being his probity and disinterestedness.
You were happy, I long thought, in your union with a man ofprobity and good sense.
Men of probity were employed by the Government as its financial agents.
Now, there was in England no ecclesiastic so universally esteemed for probity and saintliness as Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester; there was no layman who could compare for intellectual eminence and beauty of character with Thomas More.
And in the same Chapter he adds that 'A Man of Probity has always a Reserve in his Freedoms, and Converses within the Rules of Modesty, and Character.
In short: Nothing can be more disserviceable toProbity and Religion, than the management of the Stage.
Turgot, economy in expenditure and freedom in trade; everywhere he ferreted out abuses, abolishing useless offices and payments, exacting from the entire administration that strict probity of which he set the example.
Four knights of proved probity crossed their lances in the roadway beyond the Castle of Chinon.
Still, we may be sure she had a heart full of trouble as she witnessed the degeneration of her son-in-law from paths of probity and virtue.
This delicate business was taken in hand by Queen Yolande and certain ladies well known for probity and prudence.
With the notary, his character for extreme probity was his chef-d'oeuvre of art; a deposit was to him a jewel, which he could not surrender but with poignant regrets.
Madame d'Orbigny, who was the dupe, like the rest of the world, of the proverbial probity of the notary, and who had not been enlightened by Polidori in this particular.
Saint-Remy, who, only knowing the notary by report also, expected to find an attorney either familiar or a fool; for the viscount always imagined men of such probity as M.
Monge, who was a patriot, said firmly: "Probity is as necessary to liberty as corruption to tyranny.
According to the terms of his commission, Foucquet was in no way subordinate to his colleague, but age, experience, vigilant industry and a tried and distinguished probity gave Servien the chief authority.
A mingled air of nobility and gentleness; a countenance that bespoke the probity that appeared in all his acts, and a sincerity that could not dissimulate,-- The Critic.
As a soldier, he had the experience of thirty years of service; and he was in high repute, not only for piety, but for probity and honor.
Thus are Persons of the greatest Probity seduced into shameful Errors and Prejudices, and made bad Men even by that noblest of Principles, the Love of their Country.
The Probity of his Mind, and the Integrity of his Life, create him Followers, as being eloquent or loud advances others.
He was a Man of a very handsome Person and Shape, tall and comely; his Eyes were blewish, his Nose long, and his Countenance venerable: He joined a most exemplary Piety and Probity to an eminent Degree of Knowledge and Learning.
He left two Sons behind him, John and Daniel; besides a great Reputation, and Desire of him, not only among his Friends and Acquaintance, but all the Men of Learning and Probity all over Europe.
He filled him too with his favourite principle, that probity in man and virtue in woman, are mere chimeras, without existence in anybody except a few poor slaves of early training.
Marechal, the King's surgeon, had the courage and the probity to tell all these things to the King, and to state the sinister opinions it gave rise to among all classes, even the most enlightened.
He piqued himself, above all things, upon his probity and justice, but the mask soon fell.
Morton died with that constancy and resolution which had attended him through all the various events of his life; and left a reputation which was less disputed with regard to abilities than probity and virtue.
It is accordingly no paradox that there should be honour among thieves, kindness among harlots, and probity among fanatics.
