And no professional has rapped with a ruler the knuckles of these youths, whose fabulous ignorance is surpassed only by their impudence!
The ruins of two of the most renowned of the old English abbeys are also here--Whalley, with its long record of benevolence, and Furness, scarcely surpassed in manifold interest even by Fountains.
The circumstance referred to may be accounted for perhaps in part by the extreme density of the population, which exceeds that of all other English manufacturing towns, and is surpassed only in Liverpool.
Placed upon the brow of the hill above the town, it commands a prospect scarcely surpassed by the view from Billinge.
The original inhabitants excelled the Semites in artistic spirit and ability, perhaps also as traders and mariners, and the latter probably imitated the former, but seldom reached them and never surpassed them.
Hence in this place there early developed a civilisation which far surpassed that of other nations, and with which only that of far-off Babylonia, where somewhat similar local conditions obtained, could in any degree vie.
If they were behind their predecessors in some points, they far surpassed them in others.
If they, the Assyrians in particular, had been able to free themselves from tradition, they might have surpassed their predecessors and teachers.
He surpassed all of his predecessors in such a measure that the future copyist saw no necessity for preserving any work but the one, since this one practically covered the field of all the rest.
That he did not neglect Accad or Babylonia is shown by the work, which surpassed all other undertakings, completed in his reign and for which he gave orders in his early years,--the reconstruction of the ruined capital itself.
The palace which he built at Nineveh on the site of an old building surpassed all that had hitherto been seen.
Indeed, in this regard, it is surpassed even now by very few works in the domain of history.
She was popularly believed to learn nothing but music, and even in that to use talent to save pains; and she had a lead-like affinity to the bottom of her class, yet in the final examination she had surpassed far more diligent girls.
In oratory, which most French-Canadians admire beyond all other forms of verbal art, Sir Wilfrid Laurier has greatly surpassed L.
The authority of Origen, who, according to Jerome, surpassedhimself in his commentary of ten volumes on this book, established the allegorical theory in the Christian church in the two main forms in which it has since prevailed.
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In this they surpassed not only the Greeks, but all nations ancient and modern.
The sententious and dogmatic style of this preamble cannot fail to strike the reader; but it is surpassed by many of the precepts which follow.
Sidenote: Check upon Habsburg Ambitions in the Germanies] To adopt and pursue a policy which would suit all these lands and peoples would hardly be possible for any mortal: it certainly surpassed the wit of the Habsburgs.
I was with the dear old chief at the time at which the blunder was discovered and the most eloquent conversationalist at that time alive in England surpassed himself.
But perhaps none of these impostures surpassed in audacity that offered by a monastery in Jerusalem, which presented to the beholder one of the fingers of the Holy Ghost!
Two months later, Spain advanced the like sum, besides which Beaumarchais had associated with himself numerous private individuals in France and elsewhere, so that his first sending to the Americans surpassed in itself alone, three millions.
As usual, the pupil hath surpassed the master, and you find yourself in the second place.
There were thrills of pathos in Dickens's readings (of David Copperfield, for instance) which Kean himself never surpassed in dramatic effect.
And there was a fixed expression of horror of me, all over the theatre, which could not have been surpassed if I had been going to be hanged to that red velvet table.
He wrote verses almost like a poet, but no one surpassed him in genuine admiration for whatever was excellent in others.
Landor was holding the picture in his hand, declaring that it had never been surpassed as a specimen of that particular art.
But if Duke Ercole emulated the zeal of his predecessors in the encouragement of classical learning, he surpassed them all in his love of travel, of building, and of theatrical representations.
Don Bernardino replied discreetly that the Marchesa was, to say the truth, even more beautiful than her sister, and surpassed all other ladies by her charm and brilliancy.
Whatever he did, he surpassed expectation, in the fine arts and learning, in justice and benevolence.
The women were under five feet in height, and few of the men surpassed five feet four, five, or six inches.
Of those played by both actors, Quin is said to have surpassed Garrick in Sir John Brute.
In Ranger, Garrick surpassed even what old playgoers could recollect of comic excellence.
The great actor, in his retirement, used to smile when his friends told him he had surpassed Betterton.
A diverse industrial sector has far surpassed agriculture as the primary locus of economic activity and income.
Swaziland recentlysurpassed Botswana as the country with the world's highest known HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.
Her privations during the War, and immediately after, surpassed all expectations.
It may be argued that before the War the total of all private patrimony in Germany surpassed but by little three hundred milliards of marks; and this is a valuation made upon generous criteria.
And all that I wish to hope, gentlemen, is that the glory of your arms may be surpassed by the glory of the peace which you will give to the world.
At certain moments Belgium's demands have surpassed even the total of her national wealth, while the damages have not been more than some milliards.
It vanished like a shadow, and the "Albatross" sped on her way to the southwest with a speed that was not felt, because it surpassed that of the chasing wind.
In fact, the speed had been doubled, and now surpassed anything that had ever been attained by terrestrial Engines.
A Life of Lincoln that has never been surpassed in vividness, compactness and lifelike reality,"--Chicago Tribune.
The debates in this Third House often surpassed in interest the formal proceedings behind closed doors across the corridor.
But for size and richness, if not for beauty, all these are surpassedby a marvellous vase in the Chigi collection at Florence.
Generally the highest prices have been paid for artistic merit, but these have been surpassed in the case of some vases of high literary or historical value.
Who today knows not alone of the power already alluded to, but who that knows that his ability before a jury has never been surpassed in the state, or that he was peerless as a popular speaker before a promiscuous audience?
In no editorial sanctum has he been surpassed in rareness of diction, nor in power of expression.
MEEK For versatility, brilliancy, and general usefulness, few Alabamians have surpassed Judge Alexander B.
PUGH For solid and substantial worth without ornament or frippery, no son of Alabama hassurpassed the Hon.
Without the weirdness of Poe, Meek surpassed him in deftness of touch and daintiness of expression.
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