The life of Colantonio grasped nearly the half of two centuries, and the refinements for which he has been extolled must be looked for in those of his works, on whose authenticity there is no hesitation, produced on the verge of life.
A single one was saved for the stake; he heroically resisted the refinements of the most barbarous cruelty; he showed no weakness, and did not cease to pray for his executioners.
But it was not to be expected that our heroine should as yet have become versed in all these refinements of modern civilization.
For, cousin, you have a special talent for rebuffing a man; you not only give them once, but you delight in repeating the punishment, and then trying it another day with all the refinementsof cruelty.
Unfortunately Maximina could not appreciate these refinements of elegance and good taste: everything was for her equally new and lovely.
All the luxuries of the life at "Choisy," all the refinements even to the smallest detail, had their origin in her inventions.
There was no study of drawing, composition, or any of the refinements that could be learned from a master who had a knowledge of art.
The refinements that followed, noticeable in the highly finished products of the later 19th century, came as a direct and natural consequence of Bewick's contributions to the art.
Even in him it was probably quite unconscious, well as he was aware of most of the refinements of his craft; and perhaps it is only a sleight of hand that might come naturally to any good story-teller.
Had Walpole paid as much attention to the intellectual improvement of his countrymen, as he did to the refinements of material life and to physical progress, he would have merited still higher praises.
He showed the folly of metaphysical refinements about the right of taxation when a continent was in arms.
But the evidence of the progressive refinements of habitation is no more clear than that of progressive refinement of the inhabitant: there must be some one to use these finer things.
The Polish language is refined and artificial in its grammatical structure, rich in its words and phrases, and, like the Bohemian, capable of faithfully imitating the refinements of the classical languages.
In the public games of Greece, the refinements of poetry mingled with those exercises which were calculated to invigorate the physical powers, and develop manly beauty.
The Counts of Barcelona obtained, by marriage, the kingdom of Aragon, and soon spread through their new territories many of the refinements of Provence.
Progress eventually brings more leisure, more culture, and more of the other refinements of living.
I do not remember that Homer any where falls into the Faults above-mentioned, which were indeed the false Refinements of later Ages.
Such is the style of your supposed letter, which however, if I am well informed, by no means comes up to the refinements of a fishwife in Billingsgate.
Fiendish ingenuity was expended on the invention of refinements of suffering, and executions offered public exhibitions in which the worst vices in the mores of the time were fed and strengthened.
This policy was pursued with all the ingenious refinements which the dogmas suggested, in order to glut the vengeance of the Assyrian king.
The situation (so far from being crude and simple) involved endless refinements and complexities of torture.
He was hardly aware of his own restraint, his refinements of instinct and of mood.
The less Charles understood these refinements the more they seduced him.
When it is understood that with all the refinements referred to the actual efficiency of a steam engine is less than 30 per cent.
We now come to therefinements in engine construction,--that which adds so greatly to the economy of operation.
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