If he had, he showed himself an apt scholar; if not, he showed a genius for the business from which the familiars of the Holy Office might have taken instruction.
A member of the Assembly of Notables in the month of November in this year, he showed himself one of the warmest advocates of the new ideas, and became at this time the friend of Necker.
In his various writings, both in and out of the newspapers, he showed himself inconstant to any fixed principles.
The king who was a model of chivalry in his dealings with knight and noble showed himself a brutal savage to the burgesses of Calais.
At the Council Isidore along with Bessarion showed himself a zealous promoter of the union.
Marcus Aurelius, who in every other respect was utterly disreputable, influenced by his mistress Marcia, showed himself inclined, by the exercise of his clemency, to remit the sentences of the Christians.
In Reuchlin’s controversy with the scholars of Cologne he showed himself an eager apologist, and headed the party of Reuchlin.
Surrounded by many who accepted presents, heshowed himself inaccessible to such seductions and incorruptible.
He showed himself to be imbued with the reformed doctrine, but he was decidedly averse to this form of church government, which created a power in the nation intended to counterbalance and withstand that of the monarch.
Meanwhile, the Rakshasa Ravana, wearing a genteel guise though wicked at heart, and like unto fire enveloped in a heap of ashes, showed himself there.
And, O king, Gavakshya also of terrible mien and endued with a bovine tail, showed himself there, having collected sixty thousand crores of monkeys.
And seeing the points of the horizon covered by Arjuna with a thick network of sharp arrows, his friend, the chief of the Gandharvas, showed himself.
And he showed himself to the brothers, staying for a moment in the skies, like the Sun in his effulgence in the firmament.
At the same time he showed himself to be strongly in favour of the Catholic claims.
He showed himself affectionate, then angry, then threatening, but all in vain; the answers which the girl gave him were ever the same.
Once in the rooms above, he showed himself perfect, both lucid in his remarks and just in his appreciations, having recovered all his easy intelligence as soon as he was no longer upset by his hatred of colossal labour and cheerful decoration.
At first he made me understand the embarrassment in which he was placed by his position as protector of Lourdes; but just as I was going off he showed himself charming, and promised me his help with a delicacy which deeply touched me.
In his retreat towards the Pyrenees, he revenged his disappointment on the country through which he passed; and, in the sack of Pollentia and Astorga, he showed himself a faithless ally, as well as a cruel enemy.
For he showed himself so generous that he doubled the ancient pay of the soldiers: a fashion of bounty which then was novel.
What a mighty man, then, must we deem Starkad, who, when enveloped in the most deadly perils, showed himself as great in refusing aid as in receiving wounds!
By this deed he showed himself almost as great in saving as in conquering his enemy.
Wherever he showed himself, he was met by the love and the blessings of his people, and women and gray-haired men raised their children and children's children in their arms, that they might see the man who had made his country happy.
When he showed himself, he was always surrounded by his peasantry, whom he treated as equals.
Indeed her presence made life smooth and cheerful again to the young people; there were no more rubs of temper, and Bobus, whose departure was very near, showed himself softened.
He showed himself a much better nurse, and far more full of resource than the traveller.
In general he showed himself as droll as ever, but there were days when, as John said, "all the skip was gone out of the Jack.
He early devoted himself to politics, and in connection with the dispute between America and the mother country he showed himself one of the most unwearied, efficient, and disinterested assertors of American freedom and independence.
Although his European education had given him sympathies for Western civilization, he showed himself despotic, and became very unpopular.
In action he showed himself a pure opportunist, approving at one time what he condemned at another.
But while he showed himself thus in thorough sympathy with his predecessor, in his power of dealing with circumstances he proved himself by far the superior.
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