Chiron was the wisest and justest of all the Centaurs, and at his death Jupiter placed him among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius.
Then Agamemnon called a council of his wisest and bravest chiefs.
It was in vain his nearest friends andwisest counsellors remonstrated and begged him not to oppose the god.
Ludlow was not one of the greatest or wisest characters of his time, but is one of the most estimable in virtue of his sturdy honesty.
The mind may improve after a certain age," replied Jacky, with one of her wisest looks, "but I doubt very much if the person does.
The wisest people are sometimes mistaken," observed Miss Jacky.
On the contrary, Doctor, I thought it had been upon love; and I was endeavouring to convince you that even the wisest of men may be susceptible of certain tender emotions towards a beloved object.
The only way in which I think about such things, is that I feel the people cannot all be wise,--and that it seems a pity the wisest and greatest in the land should not be chosen to lead them rightly.
I do think that only the wisest scholars and most intelligent persons should be allowed to help in the ruling of a great nation.
And knowing you, I reckoned the wisest thing was to come to you with the naked tale and hide naught.
At last, however, he felt the tax past bearing, for it was making an old man of him; and then he braced himself and called on his Maker to see him through and done the wisest thing that ever he had done.
All the moderate andwisest historians of the Anglican Church have extolled its foundations.
Eventually Mr. Groves came to the conclusion that for a long time to come "the wisest method" was to "avoid controversy with the Moslems.
To a friend in any difficulty she was the most comfortable of advisers, the wisest of consolers.
It was then that he talked with the rabbits and the great white owl, the wisestbird in the world.
If one thing turns out not to be wisest you can try another.
It was wisestnot to question but to wait until Lee returned to take up law, the traditional Merryvale profession.
Bob, though disconsolate, made no attempt to follow them, knowing that with growing darkness it was wisest for him to be inconspicuous, a small figure in the shadow whom parents might forget and fail to send early to bed.
The way to quench the desire for emigration is to open wider the doors of opportunity at home, but that opening of the doors seems to baffle the wisest and most progressive and the most humanitarian of our statesmen.
I subsequently discovered, however, by no means of rare occurrence in the Leaplow history of the periodical selection of the wisestand best.
But the wisest and best of our philosophers hold that the entire system of which we are but insignificant parts, is based on certain immutable truths of a divine origin.
If monikins were purely virtuous, there would be no necessity for government at all; but, being what they are, we think it wisestto set them to watch each other.
As things are, therefore, we believe it is wisest to trust our own elections to ourselves--not to a portion of ourselves, but to all of ourselves.
In frighten'd haste a council then was held, In which the wisest men the land possess'd, Were to decide what it were best to do.
St. Gallus can no longer allow thewisest of all his disciples, to remain out in this shilly-shallying world.
She says she has the sweetest, kindest nature, and the wisest little ways of meeting emergencies.
If I did, it was the wisest and kindest thing I could do.
He had a great admiration for Mill's writings, and especially for his treatise on Liberty, which he described as 'one of the wisest books of our time.
All the best patriotism, all the most heroic self-sacrifice of the nation, was thrown into defence of these causes; and the wisest statesmen of the time made it the main object of their legislation to protect and consolidate them.
I saw Jobson, the President of the Licensed Liquor Sellers' Association, the other day, and when I suggested this course to him he said he thought it would be the wisestone to pursue.
When all was over, nobody knew how they were expected to behave, whether to congratulate the pair, or whether to disappear and hold their tongues, which seemed in fact the wisest way.
Mrs. Ochterlony knew very well what her young visitor meant, but she took no notice, as was the wisest way.
It will make no difference to me, I assure you, Mary; and both the Colonel and I think if there is any doubt, you know, that it is by far the wisest thing you could do.
But circumstances come wildly in the way of the best intentions, and cut off the wisest speech sometimes on a man's very lips.
The father was the man after God's own heart, and the son was the wisest of men.
The Son of God, who became a man, descended in a direct line from thiswisest of men, and from the adultress of whom we have just spoken.
He was much respected by the Rabbins of Jerusalem, for he was a Polish man, and he knew more Zohar and more secrets than the wisest of them.
The people are being trained for the wisest exercise of political rights.
And they seize upon every opportunity to urge upon the Home Government the duty of granting added power to the people, and also to advise the leaders of Indian thought as to their wisest methods of procedure.
Of course, it was very nice of Mr. Wetmore to be so honest, but it did not always seem to be the wisest thing.
It's terrible to think how unnecessary even the best and wisest of us is to the purposes of Providence.
She went up to her mother, who would come to no conclusion without first consulting me, because, as she said, I was the wisest and most virtuous of men.
That's your wisest plan, and I advise you to keep to it, nevertheless I want to shew you something which will surprise you.
The council of Clermont and the crusade that followed it only developed and consolidated all which preceding councils, all that the wisest lords and princes, had done for the cause of humanity.
The wisest and the bravest were beginning, in such a critical situation, to despair of the success of the enterprise, when assistance was afforded them of an unexpected kind.
In this assembly, in which it was proposed to invade Egypt, the wisestamong whom was the grand master of the Templars, declared loudly and decidedly that the undertaking was unjust.
The wisest Moralists, before that Time, has laid the greatest Stress on the Reasonableness of their precepts; and appeal'd to Human Understanding for the Truth of their Opinions.
I can easily imagine a sudden silence on the part of the wisest historian.
Tiberius, for instance, must have meditated much more deeply on the character and methods of government of the Emperor Augustus, and must have known far more about them than even the wisest historian.
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