Mr. Franklin, as I have mentioned before, was a sagacious man, and also an inflexibly upright one.
Indeed, his features were so full of intelligence that there could be but little doubt, not only that he understood what was said, but that he could have expressed some very sagacious opinions out of his own mind.
As I have already said, this carefully written and sagacious piece still remains the most masterly discussion we possess of the advantages and disadvantages of endowments.
This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.
To those who have cherished an affection for a faithful and sagacious dog, I need hardly be at the trouble of explaining the nature or the intensity of the gratification thus derivable.
De Rosny had, therefore, felt the necessity of a new patron for the reformed religion in this great emergency, and had naturally fixed his eyes on the puissant and sagacious prince who now occupied, the British throne.
Such a retinue was indispensable to enable an ambassador to transact the public business and to maintain the public dignity in those days; unproductive consumption being accounted most sagacious and noble.
After this battle peace reigned under the powerful and sagacious rule of Birger.
Oscar was of a mild, sagacious disposition, who liked to go into detail and take time for investigation and decision.
The sagacious Kniephausen thought the battle lost and considered it best to retire in good order.
Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus, who is yet little known in Norway, enjoys great popularity in Sweden, where his harmonious, sagacious nature and resolute energy are highly respected.
For he was not only sagacious and kind above others, but also manly and able.
King Stenkil was a devout Christian, but of a sagacious disposition, careful not to offend his heathen subjects by any Christian propaganda.
Christian was a sagacious ruler, but his great need of money, incurred by the redeeming of Schleswig and Holstein, made him unpopular.
In all these duties Uberto had been so long exercised, that he was universally know to be the most sagacious and the most trusty animal on the mountain.
And thesagacious animal would creep across wind as stealthily as a cat on the right hand being slightly raised, as described in XII.
Whether or not they did their part, there could be no doubt that the canine would perform his in a creditable manner, for he had been trained by competent hands that fully understood how to teach so sagacious an animal.
By this time, as the reader will perceive, the sagacious officer was not only on the right trail, but advancing rapidly to the correct conclusion.
The sagacious peasant was rewarded with a pension by the King of Bavaria.
The sagacious general was not, it is to be supposed, greatly affected by a rebuke which was only given for form's sake.
They know that the daring are favoured by fortune, but not unless they exercise a sagacious foresight with regard to dangers.
The sagacious savages make the assault when they have learnt from their spies that the colony is bare of defenders.
Sagacious Porta loved to trace Likeness to brutes in lordly face-- To ape or owls his sketches liking, Sent the laugh round--they were so striking.
Sagacious courtiers do like me,-- They rise to high supremacy; I copy them, and I inherit The high rewards for worth and merit.
The artifice by which the sagacious ambassador detected Achilles amongst his female companions, was by placing before them various articles of merchandise, amongst which was some armour.
Anyhow Villars succeeded, and won the approbation not only of his dupes, but of those also who were sagacious enough to see the nature of his trick.
Radcliffe's practice and house were not the only possessions of that sagacious practitioner which Mead contrived to acquire.
Of the physicians[3] of what may be termed the Elizabethan era, beyond all others the most sagacious and interesting, is William Bulleyn.
You may not be aware that your grandfather has a most sagacious eye for business.
He apologized for dwelling on the subject, with the plea that it was an essential part of his machinery of action, and the usual comparison of 'the sagacious General' whose forethought omitted no minutiae.
Not that I think Fortune has abandoned us: but a sagacious schemer will not leave everything to the worthy Dame.
They are very cunning brewers and sagacious buyers too; their maxims show them to direct all their acuteness upon obtaining quality for their money.
Such were the words of the most sagacious of French statesmen to Schwarzenberg.
And all these New Learning men with their powers of language, these dark bearded men with twinkling and sagacious eyes, he detested.
His sagacious eyes looked from one to the other, his lips moved with their sideways motion.
They had not remained there many minutes when a poodle-dog, bien tondu, and white as a sheep from the river before the day of shearing, walked up to them with an air of sagacious curiosity, and looked McElvina steadfastly in the face.
The doctor did so; and the conductor, speaking to the elephant, the proboscis of the sagacious animal immediately handed up the one pointed out, to his conductor, who passed it to Macallan.
For to effect a gradual reform requires a sagacious man who can discern mischief while it is still remote and in the germ.
This is the first time that chervil, which has so long been a favourite with the sagacious French cook, has been introduced into an English book.
This is commonly called Quin’s sauce, and was given to me by a very sagacious sauce-maker.
I like your prudence and most sagacious theological ingenuity in the same: should Princes follow the thread of the advice, we shall easily extricate ourselves from this labyrinth of controversies.
For the present the Parliament side is running down the brae," wrote the sagacious Baillie, Sept.
A variation of probably half a second, or less, in the right ascension of three or four stars, observed at different seasons, no doubt revealed the fact to the sagacious astronomer of Armagh, and even enabled him to divine its cause.
Of "Les Trois Mousquetaires" alone, the scheme of adventure and incident is as orderly and sagacious as though it had been laid down by the wily cardinal himself; and therein is Dumas' success as the romancist par excellence of his time.
Horace, Gryphius's edition, which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch.
