These achievements are more glorious than the proudest triumphs of war, but, thus far, they give but faint hope that we shall yet make full atonement for our spendthrift waste of the bounties of nature.
These latter triumphs are not of recent origin, and the incipient victories which paved the way for them date back perhaps as far as ten centuries.
Severus Alexander lighted up the baths with oil-lamps,[2739] and Tertullian speaks of assisting in political triumphs by defrauding the day with the light of lamps.
But I could not help remembering that I had dreamed of and hoped for very different triumphs from this.
The little girl's determination to cultivate the acquaintance, begun out of the window during a rainy day, triumphs over the barriers of caste, and the little blind girl proves to be in every way a worthy companion.
For the very story of the past, which tells of the triumphs of science, bids the man of science put away from him all thoughts of vainglory, and that by many tokens.
We are to-day proud, and justly proud, both of the material triumphs and of the intellectual gains which it has brought us, and we are full of even larger hopes of it in the future.
We may begin to doubt it when we reflect that the triumphs of science which bring these material advantages are in their very nature intellectual triumphs.
Be with us while the New World greets The Old World thronging all its streets, Unveiling all the triumphs won By art or toil beneath the sun; And unto common good ordain This rivalship of hand and brain.
The bloodless victories of the latter have all the sublimity with none of the criminality which attaches itself to the triumphs of the former.
In vain the bells of war shall ring Of triumphs and revenges, While still is spared the evil thing That severs and estranges.
On the contrary, the author portrayed the evils of war and proved its incompatibility with Christianity,-- contrasting with its ghastlytriumphs the mild victories of peace and love.
Go up and on thy day well done, Its morning promise well fulfilled, Arise totriumphs yet unwon, To holier tasks that God has willed.
We bend above our triumphs won Like David o'er his rebel son.
This latter was the scene of Molière's triumphs and of his piteous death, and the original home of the French Opera whose position is indicated by an inscription at the corner of the Rues de Valois and St. Honoré.
In 1612 a new Jacobin monastery was founded in the Rue St. Honoré for the reformed Dominicans, destined later to be the theatre of Robespierre's triumphs and to house the great Jacobin revolutionary club.
But these seeming triumphs were of no immediate advantage to the Opposition.
Meanwhile it will be sufficient to remark that each successive link in the long chain of his triumphs may be distinctly traced to his supposed martyrdom at the hands of the Reform majority in the Upper Canadian Assembly in 1829.
But the triumphs of the official party were not confined to mere numerical successes.
His triumphs at the bar had been won by reason of his power over juries, and in spite of one-sided charges from the bench.
Among other triumphsscored by the official party were the return of the Solicitor-General, Christopher A.
My dear child, how odious the triumphs of science are!
In private business his commands prevail, On public themes his reasoning turns the scale; Assenting silence soothes his happy ear, And, in or out, his party triumphs here.
It was to be a united and consecrated State, with Christ alone for King, adorned with all triumphs of Christian art and sacred poetry, a fire of spiritual felicity to Italy and all the earth.
She has had her triumphs, great triumphs too, triumphs which have been fraught with good in an utilitarian sense, but she has tyrannised too rigidly over the realm of Art.
Queen Elizabeth is called “the peerless Oriana,” especially in the madrigals entitled The Triumphs of Oriana (1601).
His rival triumphsover him in a struggle for property, but Richard has his wife still.
Sevigne, "hid herself in the grass like a violet," and whose modesty and humility in the midst of her erring triumphs drew from all hearts the pardon she never wrung from her own uncompromising conscience.
The fascination and temptation of artistic triumphs must still have been appreciable stumbling-blocks in his spiritual career.
So far Dennis is undoubtedly right: but not content with argument, he will have a little mirth, and triumphs over the first couplet in terms too elegant to be forgotten.
Many examples of the latter may be seen in Hans Burgkmair's "Triumphs of Maximilian.
These were but petty triumphs for the emigrants and nobles, but they were sufficient to make the restored monarchy unpopular.
Revolutionary passion seemed to have died away: and the triumphs or reverses of party-leaders in the Chamber of Deputies succeeded to the harassing and doubtful conflict between Government and insurrection.
A swift succession of triumphs had left only one thing still preventing the full recognition of the Corsican warrior as sovereign of Western Europe, and that one was the existence of the old Romano-Germanic Empire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "triumphs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
