Yet fondly zealous for thy fame, Even to a date beyond thine own We strive to carry down thy name, By mounded turf, and graven stone.
And by all the world forsaken, Sees he how with zealous care At the ruthless nail of iron A little bird is striving there.
Napier of Merchiston, a zealous reformer, the writer of an Explanation of the Apocalypse, is known in the world of science as the inventor of Logarithms, a clever and easy way of shortening difficult numerical calculations.
He was a zealous presbyterian, and it was mainly owing to him that the Scottish Church adopted that form of church government.
A temperate liver, he was at the same time a zealous devotee of bodily exercise.
His zealous efforts as a reporter can hardly be taken into account here.
You will, I doubt not, take pains to rear his statue again: I pray you to let me bear a part of the expense which that will entail, which I desire to share with those who are most zealous for the glory and welfare of your country.
The man had showed no care at all for his own safety, but had been zealous that she should carry a message for him.
He had a zealous heart, and his thirty years of life had taught him that it was good to live or die for the King.
But the King is exceedingly candid as to his changes of life and mind: he tells us how the horrors of the war with Kalinga affected him, how he was an easygoing layman and then a zealous monk.
A few over-zealous officials have placed some obstacles in our way.
Unfortunately they were too zealous and imprudent in getting beyond our lines, and drew upon themselves the fire of their friends.
There was one with whom the zealous young ambassador strove hard, all to induce the invalid to speak.
This zealous passion that strode sure-footed on the brink of destruction, could not be assumed, was not assumed.
Finally the promises of Mrs. MacGregor, made to a scant but influential few, of stock in the Palm Wells tract, as a bonus for persuading their fellows to invest, added zealous recruits to her cause.
The attempt to imagine living with any warmth of blood in her vindicated character, for the sake of zealous friends, consigned her to a cold and empty house upon a foreign earth.
Once with the title stamped on his memory, the zealous Irishman might be trusted to become an ambulant advertizer.
From the first, the services of thiszealous missionary had been beyond price.
What is certain is that Count Dubois de la Motte is very impatient to get away, and that the King's fleet destined for Canada is in very able and zealous hands.
The letter from which this is taken was written to urge upon the Government a scheme in which the zealous priest could see nothing impracticable.
This enterprising father, ostensibly a missionary, was in reality a zealous political agent, bent on winning over the red allies of the English, retrieving French prestige, and restoring French trade.
The evil tidings quickly reached Philadelphia, where such confidence had prevailed that certain over-zealous persons had begun to collect money for fireworks to celebrate the victory.
A soul of greater generosity, and more zealous altruism in many respects, it would be hard to find, and yet his relations to women were, in the conventional view, a colossal and multifarious scandal.
There were zealous messengers ranging from the Russian Prince Reuss-Köstriz, through all grades of society, down to the devoted housemaid "Nanny.
As to the objection of Manon being exposed by this proceeding to any danger, he pledged his honour and good faith, that when once the young man became acquainted with us, we should find in him a most zealous defender.
Do not be alarmed,' said I, perceiving that I had almost offended his zealous feelings of devotion.
A zealous manifestation of reciprocity is due to such respectful attention, and thus, in obedience to the high commands of T.
However, she found she had many very beautiful things to say, and only hoped that Mrs. Hancock would prove as zealous and absorbed a listener as she herself had been.
And he helped me to light the fire; I assure you, he was as zealous on your behalf as I was.
It will be interesting to English-speaking readers to note that the most zealous and successful missionaries among the Saxons and Frisians came from England.
Trembling for fortune as much as for life, the generality of men were scared from that zealous enthusiasm which suggests resources in emergency.
After the Revolution, in new and zealous Americanism, text-books by American authors outsold English books.
Sometimes a zealous teacher would write out tables of measures and a few blind rules for his scholars.
Glory to God and zealous ambition for the child's future were equally influential in deciding selection.
It is told of one zealous Puritan minister that hating the symbolism of the cross he blotted it out of the criss-cross row of a number of hornbooks imported to Boston.
Zealous and injudicious parents sometimes taught infants but three years old to read Latin words as soon as they could English ones.
