I never had an opportunity of undeceiving him or I would certainly have taken it, but I have since been content to regard this as an example of the haphazard way in which reputations are sometimes made.
It is the result of a half-century of close observation, and, young folks, let me tell you that in fifty years much music has gone through the orifices of my ears; many artistic reputations made and lost!
All of them were competent scientists and we knew theirreputations were such that if they recommended that a certain top scientist sit on a panel to review our material he would do it.
They picked six men who had reputations as being both practical and theoretical scientists and who were known to have no biased opinions regarding the UFO's.
Men of the greatest reputations hold all supernaturalism in contempt.
Millions of reputations have been blasted by its slanders.
The witness desired to secure for India Europeans who had European reputations in their different branches of study.
To Mr. Fisher, he said that he "desired to secure for India Europeans who had European reputations in their different branches of study.
Surprises in South Africa smashed more reputations than anything else.
Friendships, fortunes, and reputationshave been lost in this really amusing controversy.
Should any of the old reputations be permitted to live on--save in the favor of the negligible public?
All the recent reputations they would have liked to pronounce equally great, merely on account of their commendable newness, but they were too conscientious for that.
It was impossible that such reputations should shine before all Europe without reacting powerfully on the fallen fortunes of Ireland!
Men are selected chiefly on their public school reputations or in consequence of good work on a college fifteen.
We have the sensitiveness of provincials, increased by the consciousness of having our spurs to earn on all matters of glory and renown, and our jealousy extends even to the reputations of the cats and dogs.
As the extent[78] of his virtue was conspicuous in all regions and his fame penetrated the three worlds, there was no room for the feeble and trifling reputations of others; it seemed as if they did not venture to show themselves.
Public opinion was manufactured, and reputations made and ruined here, just as political and financial jobs were arranged.
I myself, my friend, buy reputations ready-made, as the Englishman bought his love affairs.
Certain it is that the English commanders never gained reputations so cheaply.
There was no prospect of military glory, for they knew that many of the gallant victors of France, Flanders, and Scotland had left their reputations behind them on many a lost battlefield in Ireland.
Hence the invention of those 'catastrophies'--in which the reputations of deities as well as of men and women have often suffered.
The reputations of both Lyell and Darwin have, I think, passed through both these two earlier phases of thought, and we may have arrived at the third stage.
Even men of unblemished reputations appeared to feel that becoming soldiers exempted them from every law, both civil and moral.
A trustful reliance upon the reputations of those who have in greater or less degree accepted the details of the sagas characterizes a paper by Mrs. Ole Bull in the Mag.
The French were now commanded by De Guichen, considered the most capable of their officers by Rodney, whose recent abode in Paris had probably familiarized him with professionalreputations among the enemy.
It is, however, only the positive characters capable of rising to such measures that achieve reputations enduring beyond their own day.
I need not tell you whatreputations amount to in this country.
During its progress reputations were made that will live for ever in American history, and many remarkable men came to the front.
Judged by this rule few reputations would survive.
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