Bezoar (which has neither Smell nor Taste, and upon taking into the Stomach gives no Sensation perceivable) has held its Name and Reputation almost sacred with us, though exploded long since in almost all Parts of Europe.
His great personal character andreputation gave Lord Reading in his new position a certain reputation as a great Lord Chief.
He therefore broke boldly away and entered at the Bar, where his intellect secured him a reputation and an income, especially in commercial cases, which left his competitors divided between admiration and annoyance.
The tribe had always been friendly with the Totonacs, and had the reputationof being frank, fearless, and trustworthy.
The escapes of Benvenuto Cellini, of Trenck, and of Casanova must be taken as the heroes chose to report them; Benvenuto and Casanova have no firm reputation for veracity.
Such in fact was exactly the reputation which Blackwood and the Quarterly had succeeded in making for Keats, except among a small private circle of admirers.
This is, to be sure, but the vexation of a day, nor would I say so much about it to any but those whom I know to have my welfare and reputation at heart[29].
Leigh Hunt was brought up at Christ's Hospital, about a dozen years later than Lamb and Coleridge, and gained at sixteen some slight degree of precocious literary reputation with a volume of juvenile poems.
He lacked health and energy, but has left the reputation of a brilliant playful wit, and the evidence of a charming character and no slight literary talent.
Thus he soon gained the reputation in Burnsville which he had in Hampton, of being a very agreeable young man.
This Joslin was a very rich man and also very unscrupulous--such was his reputation with the trade.
He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living.
Thouvenel, a physician of reputation in France, who was commissioned in the year 1781, by the king, to analyze and report upon the mineral and medicinal waters of the kingdom.
He wishes to be a man of the world, and affects the reputation of vice, without having the courage to be wicked.
No writer of established reputation would be likely to say: The fool who seeks a poet's fame, Must look for ridicule and blame, Like tiptoe dwarf who fain would try To pluck the fruit for giants high.
The question is not of much interest, as The Seasons would neither add greatly to his reputation nor subtract from it.
How explain a reputation that maintains itself indefinitely and that conquers a new continent after a lapse of thirteen hundred years?
Once some one who took pity on her advised her to go to the witch who dwelt in the Bear's ravine, and enjoyed the reputation of being able to cure every disease in the world.
He would very probably have further extended his reputation in other districts if he had not been obliged to leave the service in consequence of one of those affairs which are spoken of as "a very unpleasant business.
They have had the reputation of a mild-mannered people, as they have long received, directly or indirectly, European influences.
He did not, however, and his man, Dennis Burns, was placed in nomination by Charles Heferman, a young lawyer who had of late dulled a formerly bright reputation by known dealings with the gang that ruled the city.
He smiled grimly at the implied tribute to his reputation and discreetly kept out of sight.
Botrychium:-- 'In former times the ferns had a great reputation in medicine, not so much on account of their obvious as their supposed virtues.
The reputation of the summoner is enough to show how abuses pervaded the action of these courts.
He swaggered into this war, for which he is partly responsible, expecting to win the reputation of a general; he will sneak out of it with the reputation of a burglar.
The Huns had a mighty reputation for invincibility.
Neutral critics have found in Bethmann-Hollweg's cry for peace mere wasted breath The Chancellor and his master are perilously near losing among neutrals the last shreds of reputation for political sagacity.
He seemed uneasy as to our prospects, for the coast desert had a bad reputation and we were about to plunge into a wilderness with the conditions of which he was unfamiliar.
Henrietta's pain had not, he thought, served any good purpose; but he did not want to say so, lest he should acquire a reputation for impiety and lose his practice.
No sensible person can accuse me of exaggerating my own importance because I value my reputation sufficiently to object to my approval being publicly cited in support of a cause with which I have no sympathy.
So, some years later, he laughed helplessly and suddenly, standing among the broken fragments of his social reputation and his professional career.
You require for that, I fancy, a reputation wholly untarnished; the least breath dimming it would be for you a disastrous calamity.
He values his reputation as an art connoisseur, you see.
He implored the jury to consider the reputation of the witnesses who had striven to wreck these men.
The reputation of the few who fall in our holy cause will abide after them, a precious legacy to those whom they love and honour, to those whom they have snatched from slavery--for whom they are proud to perish.
The reputation of John Baptist still subsisted on the banks of the Jordan.
They therefore contrived, as we have seen, the tale of the resurrection, by the aid of which the reputation of their master and their own fortune were secured.
The reputation and resources of Jesus were so great in Galilee, that, to increase the number of his followers, it was only necessary for him to open his mouth and speak.
John of Parma had acquired a great reputation for holiness, and his indefatigable labours on behalf of the Order and of the Church had made his name famous throughout Europe.
As General of the Franciscan Order his power was very considerable, but it was greatly increased by his reputation for learning and profound piety.
All this mystery adds both to my reputationand to my fees.
During the past three years the reputation I gained by my success in saving the lives of several persons of rank, increased so rapidly that money has flowed into my coffers beyond all belief.
It is true that I might continue my work in London, but as a stranger it would be long before I found clients, while here my reputation is established.
If I mistake not, I shall have more opportunities of doing such services and of so increasing my reputation ere long.
The future, whether ofreputation or of literary fame, had no influence over his imagination.
That he was known to be stained with vices which it is not easy to describe, but which he frankly acknowledged in his poetical epistles, did not injure his reputation in that age of mutual indulgence.
Valuable as these letters are for the student of Machiavelli's writings, his private reputation would have gained by their destruction.
The delight with which they were first received and even now sometimes are read in Italy, and the high reputation they have won for their authors, show that there is something in the Italian genius sympathetic to their spirit.
A man who had gained reputation by a learned or religious treatise, ventured to extend it by jests of the broadest humor.
University, 120; its reputation in the Middle Ages, iv.
He left behind him an unsullied reputation for virtuous conduct and sweet temper.
Notwithstanding his avoidance of publication and parsimony of production, Berni won an almost unique reputation during his lifetime, and after his death was worshiped as a saint by the lovers of burlesque.
Footnote 499: It is clear from a perusal of the Lettere all'Aretino that his reputation depended in a great measure upon these pious romances.
He was thirty-two years of age, and had acquired a singular reputation throughout Italy for social humor, pungent wit and literary ability.
He wrote as he talked; and the result was that he acquired a well-won reputation for freshness, wit, originality and vigor.
Moreover, he was liberal to poor people; and while squandering money first upon his vices, he paid due attention to his reputation for generosity.
He assiduously cultivated a reputation for reckless freedom of speech.
This reputation he now resolved to use for his own profit.
Not--so to say--an utter stranger, for George was known to him by reputation and character.
To provide all possible details with regard to the age, the disposition and character and the personal and military reputation of each commander, his possible successor in the command and other superior officers.
He writes: "Among its other operations was the execution of a plot concocted by General Babcock and District-Attorney Harrington to blacken the reputation of Mr Columbus Alexander who had made himself obnoxious to the ring.
