Noble Sentence Examples

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  • His name is remembered in our country as that of a brave and noble man.

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  • That is very noble of you.

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  • Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

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  • He sounded noble, not at all sleazy like the other night.

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  • You have a noble master who will find places for all your children.

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  • What will Nicholas, dear noble Nicholas, do when he hears of it?

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  • I divined his noble, resolute, self-sacrificing spirit too, she said to herself.

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  • He bristled at the mention of Rhyn in the same sentence as Andre.  One half-brother had been noble, courageous, honorable, willing to sacrifice himself for their cause.  Rhyn was the opposite.

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  • This man was too noble to kill any but a warrior.

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  • How noble and kingly the King was, especially in his misfortunes!

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  • And Fedya, with his noble spirit, loved him and even now never says a word against him.

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  • And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul.

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  • You could finance the entire government and its (hopefully) noble agenda, by this method alone.

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  • To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem.

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  • He loved the simple dress and manners of the Franks, and on two occasions only did he assume the more stately attire of a Roman noble.

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  • The discussion of these phenomena brings us to another point which precludes the possibility of Sumerian having been merely an artificial system, and that is the undoubted existence in this language of at least two dialects, which have been named, following the inscriptions, the Eme-ku, " the noble or male speech," and the Eme-sal, " the woman's language."

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  • He earnestly admonished Leo, for his own sake and for Florence, to found a permanent and free state system for the republic, reminding him in terms of noble eloquence how splendid is the glory of the man who shall confer such benefits upon a people.

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  • He had drunk deeply of the spirit of the Renaissance, the determination to see for himself the noble universe, unclouded by the mists of authoritative philosophy and church tradition.

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  • There are five noble families, possibly representing a former division of the people, after whom come the freeborn, and then the freedmen.

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  • There is no doubt that the archons represented the ancient kings, whose absolutism, under conditions which we can only infer, yielded in process of time to the power of the noble families, supported no doubt by the fighting force of the state.

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  • Very different was the case when China presented her noble code of Confucian philosophy and the literature embodying it.

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  • The peroration contains a noble appeal to the Italian liberator of his dreams, and a parallel from Macedonian history, which, read by the light of this century, sounds like a prophecy of Piedmont.

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  • The first care of the new emperor was to reward his noble partisans with appointments that removed them from Constantinople, and his next was to repair the beggared finances of the empire.

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  • Montaigne's widow survived him, and his daughter left posterity which became merged in the noble houses of Segur and Lur-Saluces.

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  • Attached to one side, towards the Lateran basilica, is a fine porch with two noble porphyry columns and richly carved capitals, bases and entablatures.

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  • The other, three-quarters of a century later, contains an heraldic representation of the noble families of the town.

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  • Even then Rousseau did not settle at once in the anomalous but to him charming position of domestic lover to this lady, who, nominally a converted Protestant, was in reality, as many women of her time were, a kind of deist, with a theory of noble sentiment and a practice of libertinism tempered by good nature.

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  • The four palaces, of uniform design, encircling this plads, were built for the residence of four noble families; but on the destruction of Christiansborg in 1794 they became the residence of the king and court, and so continued till the death of Christian VIII.

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  • The values recognized at the court would naturally be recognized in noble families generally, and Philip chose Aristotle to be the educator of his son.

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  • The appearance of the island throughout is wonderfully beautiful, with its open plains, bordered by far-extending precipitous mountain tiers, its isolated shaggy peaks and wooded ranges, and its many noble rivers and lakes.

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  • He was born in Paris of a noble and influential family of Normandy; hence, being destined to the ecclesiastical state, he was when ten years old commendatory abbot of La Trappe and two other abbeys, prior of two priories, and canon of Notre Dame, Paris.

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  • What was once noble morphed into irresponsible rebellion.

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  • The shell of a man before him was too weak to ever measure up to Damian's noble brother.

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  • Upon hearing his sentence he gave vent to his feelings in a few noble and beautiful words.

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  • Among its noble families the chief was that of the Caecinae, who took their, name from the river which runs close to Volaterrae and still retains the name Cecina.

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  • The officers were all Dutch till 1908, when a trial was made of native officers from noble Javanese families.

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  • The noble castle of Carrickfergus is the only one in perfect preservation.

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  • In 1788 he entered the corps of noble cadets in the artillery and engineering department, where his ability, especially in mathematics, soon attracted attention.

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  • Thus we read in Vendidad xviii., " Many there be, noble Zarathustra, who bear the mouth bandage, who have yet not girded their loins with the law.

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  • If such a one says ` I am an Athravan ' he lies, call him not Athravan, noble Zarathustra, said Ahura Mazda, but thou shouldst call him priest, noble Zarathustra, who sits awake the whole night through and yearns for holy wisdom that enables man to stand on death's bridge fearless and with happy heart, the wisdom whereby he attains the holy and glorious world of paradise."

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  • The determination to limit still further the power of the executive was at the bottom of this fatal parsimony, with the inevitable consequence that, while the king and the senate were powerless, every great noble or lord-marcher was free to do what he chose in his own domains, so long as he flattered his "little brothers," the szlachta.

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  • It consisted almost entirely of the noble militia, and was tricked out with a splendour more befitting a bridal pageant than a battle array.

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  • The place belonged to various noble Bohemian families, and in the 17th century came into the hands of Wallenstein, who made it the capital of the duchy of Friedland and did much to improve and extend it.

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  • Hall's great work, The Union of the Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and York, commonly called Hall's Chronicle, was first published in 1542.

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  • The ark, or citadel, in the southwest extremity of the city, now used as an arsenal, is a noble building of burnt brick with mighty walls and a tower 120 ft.

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  • A note by Cyril Lucar states that it was written by Thecla, a noble lady of Egypt, but this is probably merely his interpretation of an Arabic note of the 14th century which states that the MS. was written by Thecla, the martyr, an obviously absurd legend; another Arabic note by Athanasius (probably Athanasius III., patriarch c. 1308) states that it was given to the patriarchate of Alexandria, and a Latin note of a later period dates the presenta tion in 1098.

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  • This church, by Giuliano da Sangallo (1485-1491), is a Greek cross, with barrel vaults over the arms, and a dome; it is a fine work, and the decoration of the exterior in marble of different colours (unfinished) is of a noble simplicity.

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  • At Alexandria the noble Hypatia taught, to whose memory her impassioned disciple Synesius, afterwards a bishop, reared a splendid monument.

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  • The meagre autobiographical preface, which he affixed to the complete edition of his works when he was fifty-seven years old, makes it clear that he received a liberal education - being of noble family - practised as a lawyer and entered official life, and finally held some high office under Theodosius.

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  • I purpose to discourse with him concerning eclipses, for what is there which we may not hope for at his hands," and he also states " that he was wholly taken up and employed about the noble invention of logarithms lately discovered."

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  • Thanks to the noble simplicity and specifically religious character of his ideas, Marcion was able to found not only schools, but a community, a church of his own, which gave trouble to the Church longer than any other Gnostic sect.

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  • Below the king was a numerous and powerful class of nobles, the highest of whom (tlatoani) were great vassals owing little more than homage and tribute to their feudal lord, while the natural result of the unruliness of the noble class was that the king to keep them in check increased their numbers, brought them to the capital as councillors, and balanced their influence by military and household officers, and by a rich and powerful merchant class.

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  • It is, therefore, in all likelihood to the zeal of Wycliffe and his followers that we owe the two noble 1 4 th-century translations of the Bible which tradition has always associated with his name, and which are the earliest complete renderings that we possess of the Holy Scriptures into English.4 The first of these, the so-called Early Version, was probably completed about 1382, at all events before 1384, the year of Wycliffe's death.

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  • This was the first of seven editions of this noble Bible which issued from the press during the years 1539-1541, - the second of them, that of 1540, called Cranmer's Bible from the fact that it contained a long Preface by Archbishop Cranmer, having the important addition " This is the Byble apoynted to the vse of the churches " on the titlepage.

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  • After two years as tutor to two youths of noble family, Schelling was called as extraordinary professor of philosophy to Jena in midsummer 1798.

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  • This quarter was inhabited altogether by workers in wool, and as the city was small, the aristocracy lived close by in noble mansions which are now miserable memorials of past prosperity.

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  • He belonged to an ancient and noble Etruscan family settled at Ferentinum in Etruria.

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  • A vast number of streams, among which are the Chixoy, the Guadalupe, and the Rio de la Pasion, unite to form the Usumacinta, whose noble current passes along the Mexican frontier, and flowing on through Chiapas and Tabasco, falls into the Bay of Campeche.

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  • He refused to give any information of the alleged plot, and the sentence was carried out on the Place de Greve the next day, to the delight of the populace, since it was the first instance when no distinction in the mode of execution was allowed between noble and commoner.

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  • The Palazzo Municipale, built by Rocco Lurago at the end of the 16th century, once the property of the dukes of Turin, has a beautiful entrance court and a hanging terraced garden fronting a noble staircase of marble which leads to the spacious council chamber.

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  • The Durazzo Pallavicini palace has a noble facade and staircase and a rich picture-gallery.

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  • In the year 1879 the European position of the monarchy was 2 Josef, Freiherr Philippovic von Philippsberg (1818-1889), belonged to an old Christian noble family of Bosnia.

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  • Ausonius could still reckon Catana and fourfold Syracuse (" quadruplices Syracusas ") among the noble cities; but Sicily is not, like Gaul, rich in relics of later Roman life, and it is now Egypt rather than Sicily that feeds Rome.

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  • At a time when much speaking has depressed, has almost exterminated eloquence, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to utter."

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  • The prevailing feeling is a noble spaciousness both in scale and in form, an equanimity based upon knowledge and character, a grandeur of conception expressed by severely simple execution, There is nothing superfluous, nothing common, nothing trivial.

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  • The situation is striking, for the Shannon is here a broad and noble stream, and the immediately surrounding country consists of the rich lowlands of its valley, while beyond rise the hills of the counties Clare and Tipperary.

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  • His mythological or pastoral dramas, his great satiric epos of Adam Homo (1841-1848), his comedies, his lyrics, and above all his noble philosophic tragedy of Kalanus, prove the immense breadth of his compass, and the inexhaustible riches of his imagination.

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  • Although without charm, she was a woman of many noble qualities; and, like her husband, she wrote French books, some of which attracted a certain attention in their day.

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  • The noble statuette of Cheops in ivory, found in the stone chamber of the temple, gives the only portrait of this greatest ruler.

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  • In 1898, on the death of Mr Gladstone, he paid a noble and eloquent tribute in the.

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  • In addition to royal burghs, there were burghs of nobles and of bishops, and the provostship was apt to become, by custom, almost hereditary in a local noble family, which protected the burgesses.

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  • The vice-comes, or sheriff, as the king's direct representative, was the centre of justice for shires, and his judicature tended to encroach on that of noble holders of courts.

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  • Meanwhile the many noble and dissatisfied pensioners of England adopted Protestantism, which also made its way among the barons, burgesses and clergy, so that, for political reasons, James at last could not but be hostile to the new creed; he bequeathed this anti-protestantism, with the French alliance, through his wife, Mary of Guise, and the influence of the house of Lorraine, to his unhappy daughter, Mary Stuart.

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  • The Book of Discipline and the Book of Common Order express Knox's ideals, which, as far as they were noble, as in the matter of education and of provision for the poor, remained, in part or in whole, " devout imaginations."

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  • Many of his noble supporters escaped, he did his best to provide them with ships, others were executed, while the great Whig, Forbes of Culloden, protested against the bad policy of the repressive measures.

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  • Thus, except in the case of the west coast trade with the colonies, Scotland had reaped little commercial benefit from the Union, and the loss of business caused by the abolition of the parliament, and the rush of noble families to London, was severely felt in Edinburgh.

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  • The author's confession that, being " thretty 3eris nurist in Fraunce, and in the noble study of Paris in Latin toung," he " knew nocht the gret eloquens of Chauceir," and again that he had written another work in Latin, " the tounge that I knaw better," is valuable testimony to the difficulties in the way of a struggling Scots prose.

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  • Asser, the biographer of Alfred the Great, states that before the prince was twelve years of age he "was a most expert and active hunter, and excelled in all the branches of that noble art, to which he applied with incessant labour and amazing success."

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  • We do read frequently of kings in the accounts of their hosts; but their power may not have extended beyond the leadership of the expedition; they may have been kings ad hoc. On the other hand, the whole character of northern tradition (Teutonic and Scandinavian tradition alike) forbids us to suppose that any would be elected to that office who was not of noble or princely blood.

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  • From these specific uses the word has come into general use as a synonym of "aristocrat" or "noble," and implies the possession of such qualities as are generally associated with long descent, hereditary good breeding and the like.

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  • After the political equalization of the two orders, noble birth was no longer recognized as constituting a claim to political privilege.

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  • St John Chrysostom (Xpvaoaroµor, goldenmouthed), the most famous of the Greek Fathers, was born of a noble family at Antioch, the capital of Syria, about A.D.

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  • According to the legend given by Metaphrastes the Byzantine hagiologist, and substantially repeated in the Roman Ada sanctorum and in the Spanish breviary, he was born in Cappadocia of noble Christian parents, from whom he received a careful religious training.

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  • They were afterwards robbed of the island by Leon Vetrano, a famous Genoese corsair; but he was soon defeated and put to death, and the senate, to secure their position, granted fiefs in Corfu to ten noble families in order that they might colonize it (1206).

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  • By the treaty of Paris (9th November 1815) the contracting powers - Great Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia - agreed to place the "United States of the Ionian Islands" under the exclusive protection of Great Britain, and to give Austria the right of equal commercial advantage with the protecting country, a plan strongly approved by Count Capo d'Istria, the famous Corfiot noble who afterwards became president of the new republic of Greece.

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  • The ruins still extant are very remarkable, and, with the noble Roman theatre, the finest in the world, have earned for the place (as is the case with certain other great monuments) a legendary connexion with Solomon's Sheban queen.

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  • Yet behind these unconvincing shadows of an imperial court with its financial difficulties, of the classical Walpurgisnacht, of the fantastic creation of the Homunculus, the noble Helena episode and the impressive mystery-scene of the close, where the centenarian Faust finally triumphs over the powers of evil, there lies a philosophy of life, a ripe wisdom born of experience, such as no European poet had given to the world since the Renaissance.

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  • In 1500 he was elected chancellor of Cambridge University, an office not confined to noble lords until a much more democratic age, and in 1507 master of Pembroke Hall in the same university.

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  • During the storm of the Peasants' War (13th of June 1525) Luther married Catherine von Bora, the daughter of a noble but impoverished family belonging to Meissen.

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  • She had been a Cistercian nun in the convent of Nimtzch near Grimma - a convent reserved for ladies of noble birth.

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  • He belonged to a noble and wealthy family, but at an early age decided to enter the priesthood.

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  • In High Street may be seen the noble hall and truncated fabric of the Maison Dieu founded by Hubert de Burgh in the 13th century for the reception of pilgrims of all nations.

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  • He eschewed the pomp and ceremonies, natural inheritances from English origins, that had been an innocent setting to the character of his two noble predecessors.

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  • The church of Holy Cross, formerly collegiate, is a noble Perpendicular building with Early English and other early portions, and a fine central tower.

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  • Among the Azgar, an important division of the Tuareg, one of the noble or free tribes, styled Aouraghen, is said to descend from a tribe named Avrigha.

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  • On the alpine range itself and its immediate branches, at a height of 6000 to 10,000 ft., we have abundant growth of large forest trees, among which conifers are the most noble and prominent, such as Cedrus Deodara, Abies excelsa, Pinuslongifolia, P. Pinaster,P. Pinea (the edible pine) and the larch.

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  • Among these was a noble young soldier, Ahmad Khan, of the Saddozai family of the Abdali clan, who after the assassination of Nadir (1747) was chosen by the Afghan chiefs at Kandahar to be their leader, and assumed kingly authority over the eastern part of Nadir's empire, with the style of Dur-i-Durdn, " Pearl of the Age," bestowing that of Durani upon his clan, the Abdalis.

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  • Every great noble in France was in the league, except Gaston de Foix - who kept the south of France for the king, - and the counts of Vendome and Eu.

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  • After remarking that Newton's telescope "had lain neglected these fifty years," they stated that Hadley had sufficiently shown "that this noble invention does not consist in bare theory."

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  • The malcontents were led by the Salernitan noble Giovanni da Procida, a friend of the emperor Frederick and of Manfred, who had taken refuge at the court of Peter III.

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  • He was a member of the noble Pawenski family, but his pseudonym of Skarga (from "skarga" a "complaint" or "accusation") speedily superseded his real name.

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  • During a subsequent mission to Lithuania he converted numerous noble families, including the Radziwills, and held for some years the rectorship of the Jesuit Academy at Wilna, where he composed his Lives of the Saints.

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  • According to the commonest account, on the 23rd of August of that year Pliny the elder, who had command of the Roman fleet at Misenum, set out to render assistance to a young lady of noble family named Rectina and others dwelling on that coast, but, as there was no escape by sea, the little harbour having been on a sudden filled up so as to be inaccessible, he was obliged to abandon to their fate those people of Herculaneum who had managed to flee from their houses, overwhelmed in a moment by the material poured forth by Vesuvius.

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  • Nevertheless his history of Greek philosophy remains a noble monument of solid learning informed with natural sagacity.

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  • It was not until 1817 that she entered upon the noble work with which her name will ever be associated.

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  • The puzzled Moslem doctors explain this fact on the ground that the Hashimites were regarded as too noble to hold ordinary administrative offices, and that they could not be spared at Medina, where their counsel was required in all important affairs.

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  • Ibn Zobair, however, was occupied at Mecca with the rebuilding of the Ka`ba, and Mus`ab was harassed not only by the Kharijites, but also by a noble freebooter, Obaidallah b.

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  • King Roderic, who had escaped to Lusitania, and the noble Goths, who had fled from Toledo, would certainly not be slow in making efforts to regain what they had lost.

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  • Musa, though angered by the disobedience of Tariq, hastened to the rescue and embarked in April 712 with 18,000 men, among them many noble Arabs, and began, advised by Julian, a methodical campaign, with the purpose of establishing and securing a line of communication between the sea and Toledo.

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  • In the matter of taxes, though actuated by the most noble designs, he did harm to the public revenues.

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  • He settled at Damascus and made a noble return for his injuries by taking an active part in the war against the Greeks.

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  • These were still under age and were not the children of a freeborn, noble mother.

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  • That a noble Koreishite, a prince of the reigning house, should pledge himself to follow Dahhak the Shaibanite as his Imam, was an event of which the Khawarij were very proud.

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  • Mohtadi, who was a man of noble and generous spirit and had no lack of energy, began by applying the precarious measure of power which was left him to the reform of the court.

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  • Moqtadir, though not devoid of noble qualities, allowed himself to be governed by his mother and her ladies and eunuchs.

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  • A duke in the British peerage, if not royal, is addressed as "Your Grace" and is styled "the Most Noble."

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  • Aitan, between their south-east points, completes this noble harbour.

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  • Oppression by the throne and the official and noble classes prevailed extensively; but the weak protected themselves by the use of the Kyei, or principle of association, which developed among Koreans into powerful trading gilds, trades-unions, mutual benefit associations, money-lending guilds, &c. Nearly all traders, porters and artisans were members of guilds, powerfully bound together and strong by combined action and mutual helpfulness in time of need.

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  • His tender affection for his relatives abundantly appears from his correspondence, along with his profound attachment to the great ideas of the Revolution and his noble love of country.

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  • These noble trees attain very often a height of more than 300 ft., frequently of 350 and even more, and a butt diameter of more than 15 to 20 ft., with clean, straight fluted trunks rising 200 ft.

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  • The son assumed the title of comte de Rivarol, and asserted his connexion with a noble Italian family, but his enemies said that the name was really Riverot, and that the family was not noble.

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  • By the terms of the treaty James was to wed a noble English lady, and on the 12th of February 1424 he was married at Southwark to Jane, daughter of John Beaufort, earl of Somerset, a lady to whom he was faithful through life.

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  • The chief of these was usually the advocatus or Vogt, some neighbouring noble who served as the proctor of the church in all secular affairs.

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  • The general tendency of constitutional development in Venice henceforward ran in an exactly opposite direction to that of all other Italian cities towards a growing restriction of popular rights, until in 1296 the great council was for all future time closed to all but the descendants of a limited number of noble families, whose names were in that year entered in the Golden Book.

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  • But this continuity is not then in theological systems or creeds, nor in sacraments and cult, nor in organization, but in the noble company of all who have lived in simple trust in God and love to humanity.

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  • Each community is usually composed (but there are local differences) of - (i) an upper class of chiefs, from among whom the head (tamol or iros) is chosen; (2) a lower but still noble class; and (3) common people, mostly without rights of property.

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  • The west front is particularly fine, and the church, with its noble proportions and lofty clerestories, resembles a cathedral in miniature.

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  • He is stated to have belonged to a noble Bohemian family 3 and to have been a few years younger than Hus.

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  • It is his noble and powerful style, sustained through every change of idea and subject, that finally separates Homer from all forms of " ballad-poetry " and " popular epic."

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  • Though the Brahman, who by this time had firmly secured his supremacy over the kshatriya, or noble, in matters spiritual as well as in legislative and administrative functions, would naturally be the prime mover in this regulation of the social 4 Thus, in Berar," there is a strong non-Aryan leaven in the dregs of the agricultural class, derived from the primitive races which have gradually melted down into settled life, and thus become fused with the general community, while these same races are still distinct tribes in the wild tracts of hill and jungle."Sir Alfred C. Lyall, As.

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  • No fault, in this respect, can assuredly be found with the legendary Rama, a very paragon of knightly honour and virtue, even as his consort Sita is the very model of a noble and faithful wife; and yet this cult has perhaps retained even more of the character of mere hero-worship than that of Krishna.

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  • Akbar succeeded his father in 1556 under the regency of Bairam Khan, a Turkoman noble, whose energy in repelling pretenders to the throne, and severity in maintaining the discipline of the army, tended greatly to the consolidation of the newly recovered empire.

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  • He had already given several proofs of his noble but overscrupulous conscientiousness, and at the same time of a propensity to paradox.

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  • A magnificent, magnanimous man; holding the reins of the world, not quite in the imaginary sense; scourging anarchy down, and urging noble effort up, really on a grand scale.

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  • France had suddenly grown to her full stature; like the contemporary England of John Milton, she was become a " noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep."

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  • Their chosen leader, whom they destined to succeed Nero, was C. Calpurnius Piso, a handsome, wealthy and popular noble, and a boon companion of Nero himself.

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  • In northern Gaul, early in 68, the standard of revolt was raised by Julius Vindex, governor of Gallia Lugdunensis, and himself the head of an ancient and noble Celtic family.

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  • Still, at the opening of the 16th century, it became manifest what fruits of noble quality the Revival of Letters was about to bring forth for modern literature.

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  • The affectations of decadent chivalry disappeared before its humour; the lineaments of a noble nation, animated by the youth of modern Europe emerging from the middle ages, were portrayed in its enduring pictures of human experience.

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  • For these settlers he has to find British wives, and to this end collects 11,000 noble and 60,000 plebeian virgins, who are wrecked on their passage across.

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  • Belonging to a noble and ancient line, and destined for the army, he passed most of his time in the library of the family castle of Roquetaillade, devouring books in different languages and on almost every variety of subject.

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  • The soil is fertile and highly cultivated, groves of noble trees abound, and the villages have a neat, prosperous look.

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  • Stubbs considers that the English form of the office is to be accounted for by the king's desire to prevent the administration falling into the hands of an hereditary noble.

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  • These noble truths were about sorrow, its cause, its cessation and the path which leads to that cessation.

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  • A noble scheme of education was sketched for the whole country, but neither this nor the provision made for ministers' stipends was carried out, the revenues of the old church, from which the expenses of both were to be paid, being in the hands of the barons.

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  • In 1810 the Christian Instructor began to appear under the editorship of Dr Andrew Thomson, a churchman of vigorous intellect and noble character.

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  • Ali is described as a bold, noble and generous man, "the last and worthiest of the primitive Moslems, who imbibed his religious enthusiasm from companionship with the prophet himself, and who followed to the last the simplicity of his example."

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  • In 1609 he wrote the noble panegyric, In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, and the curiously learned and ingenious work, De Sapientia Veterum; and completed what seems to have been the Redargutio Philosophiarum, or treatise on the " idols of the theatre."

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  • He claimed to be the descendant of a noble Scottish family, but the evidence for this is lacking.

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  • Thus he could count on presenting free from afterthoughts the vivid impressions which he had first received, and Millet's nature was such that the impressions which he received were always of a serious and often of a noble order, to which the character of his execution responded so perfectly that even a "Washerwoman at her Tub" will show the grand action of a Medea.

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  • He was a friend of Sir Thomas More, who says that Pole was as learned as he was noble and as virtuous as he was learned.

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  • At Bernard's approach Henry quitted Toulouse, leaving there many adherents, both of noble and humble birth, and especially among the weavers.

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  • In the second place, the persecution deprived the Anabaptists of the noble leaders who had preached non-resistance and at the same time provoked others to an attitude of vengeance which culminated in the horrors of Munster.

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  • The style, that of the Italian Renaissance, is noble and refined, the royal apartments rich in treasures of art.

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  • The Riddarhus (house of the nobility) was the meeting-place of the Council of the Nobles until 1866, and its hall is adorned with the armorial bearings of noble families.

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  • Helmholtz was a man of simple but refined tastes, of noble carriage and somewhat austere manner.

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  • Though self-conscious and vain, Cotton Mather had on the whole a noble character.

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  • Hence arms were not borne in times of peace but stored away under charge of a slave, and Tacitus suggests in explanation that the royal policy did not commit this trust to noble, freeman or freedman.

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  • The king proposed that the actual noble holders of crown property should either pay an annual sum of 200,000 rix-dollars, to be allowed for out of any further crown lands subsequently falling in to them, or should surrender a fourth of the expectant property itself to the estimated amount of 600,000 rix-dollars.

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  • A new race of politicians was springing up. Since 1719, when the influence of the few great territorial families had been merged in a multitude of needy gentlemen, the first estate had become the nursery and afterwards the stronghold of an opposition at once noble and democratic which found its natural leaders in such men as Count Carl Gyllenborg and Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.

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  • He belonged to a family of importance, if not noble, and was born probably at Brescia, in Italy, towards the end of the 11th century.

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  • His father, Prospero Balbo, who belonged to a noble Piedmontese family, held a high position in the Sardinian court, and at the time of Cesare's birth was mayor of the capital.

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  • The noble and well-to-do, who need not till their fields in person, are pledged to appear at court as frequently as possible.

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  • Throughout his life he had pursued with devotion and industry the ideals with which he had set out, and his journal and letters display a noble simplicity of disposition and an unswerving honesty of purpose.

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  • In acting thus he did not scruple to desert his own royalist followers, and to repudiate and abandon the great and noble Montrose, whose heroic efforts he was apparently merely using in order to extort better terms from the covenanters, and who, having been captured on the 4th of May, was executed on the 21st in spite of some attempts by Charles to procure for him an indemnity.

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  • He is said to have been of a rich and noble family, and exercised great influence over the emperor Julian, who was commended to him by Aedesius.

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  • And of all this chastened dignity the archbishop was himself the ever-present, ever-inimitable model - in all that he did the perfect churchman, in all the high-bred noble, in all things, also, the author of Telemaque.

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  • An observer of very different mettle, the great lawyer d'Aguesseau, dwells on the "noble singularity, that gave him an almost prophetic air.

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  • There were to be found the most contradictory qualities in perfect agreement with each other - gravity and courtliness, earnestness and gaiety, the man of learning, the noble and the bishop. But all centred in an air of high-bred dignity, of graceful, polished seemliness and wit - it cost an effort to turn away one's eyes.

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  • He has little, if anything at all, of the high imaginative mood - the mood of reverence and noble admiration - which made Ennius, Lucretius and Virgil the truest poetical representatives of the genius of Rome.

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  • His father, an Irish clergyman, the Fearleighlinn, or lector, at the university, was said to have been of noble family.

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  • Under the noble influence of Ferencz Kazinczy he became acquainted with the chief masterpieces of European literature in their original tongues.

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  • And this was chiefly because before all things it was a practical philosophy, a rallying-point for strong and noble spirits contending against odds.

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  • The physical ground work lends a religious sanction to all moral duties, and Cleanthes's noble hymn is evidence how far a system of natural religion could go in providing satisfaction for the cravings of.

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  • At the entrance of the town stands a noble chinar (oriental plane), measuring 45 ft.

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  • Among the moralists of the time three at least deserve the title of masters of prose style, Heitor Pinto for his Imagens da vida Christa, Bishop Arraez for his Dialogos, and Frei Thome de Jesus for his noble devotional treatise Trabalhos de Jesus, while the maxims of Joanna da Gama, entitled Ditos da Freira, though lacking depth, form a curious psychological document.

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  • James Lick (1796-1876), a cold man with few friends, who gave a great fortune to noble ends; and Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), famous for executing the Sutro Tunnel of the Comstock mines of Virginia City, Nevada, and the donor of various gifts to the city.

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  • Bahrdt, who regarded Christ as merely a noble teacher like Moses, Confucius and Luther.

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  • Pippin, also an Austrasian noble, had taken a prominent part in the revolution of 613.

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  • The period following the close of the war saw great activity in building, especially in the erection of many noble monuments and public Lbuildings, e.g.

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  • He thus made it possible for the half-converted and rude tribes to remain Buddhists while they brought offerings, and even bloody offerings, to these more congenial shrines, and while their practical belief had no relation at all to the Truths or the Noble Eightfold Path, but busied itself almost wholly with obtaining magic powers (Siddhi), by means of magic phrases (Dhdrani), and magic circles (Mandala).

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  • That of Humayun, the second of the Mogul dynasty, is a noble building of rose-coloured sandstone inlaid with white marble.

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  • He belonged to a noble Prussian family of Dutch origin.

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  • The addition of even three parts of copper to one of silver does not quite obliterate the whiteness of the noble metal.

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  • His nature was noble and generous, and the universal appreciation of this fact gave him great influence in his university.

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  • He came of an ancient and distinguished noble family, and was educated for the law at Nagy-Kanizsa, Papa, Raab and Pest, and practised first as an advocate and ultimately as a notary.

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  • The noble style of his biographies and orations has earned for him the title of the Swedish Tacitus.

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  • Dame Christina and many other noble Swedish ladies were sent prisoners to Denmark.

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  • A great Roman noble and ecclesiastic, Giacomo Colonna, afterwards bishop of Lombez, now befriended him, and Petrarch lived for some years in partial dependence on this patron.

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  • The noble houses of Gonzaga at Mantua, at Carrara at Padua, of Este at Ferrara, of Malatesta at Rimini, of Visconti at Milan, vied with Azzo di Correggio in entertaining the illustrious man of letters.

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  • There Petrarch made his acquaintance, and, finding him a man unfit for any noble enterprise, declined attending him to Rome.

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  • Petrarch's ideal of humanism was essentially a noble one.

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  • Le Noble's Memoires sur les operations des Frangais en Galicie are supposed to have been written from Soult papers.

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  • The Yorkshire Wolds similarly terminate seaward in the noble promontory of Flamborough Head.

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  • At this time a mission church was built on the heights overlooking the bay by Captain Allen Gardner, R.N., who named the hill Berea in gratitude for support received from the settlers, whom he found " L 'more noble than those of " Zululand - Dingaan having refused to allow the captain to start a mission among his people.

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  • Perhaps the phrase "noble councillor" is intended to imply merely a man of wealth and position.

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  • We must recognize in those words a brave heart and a noble sympathy.

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  • He had, further, a noble bearing and majestic walk, a frame capable of enduring any amount of fatigue, and is said to have been "the best shot, the best spearman, the best runner, and the best horseman in Abyssinia."

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  • The first MS. which he undertook in London was one sent to him by "the noble and puissant lord, Lord Antone, Erle of Ryvyers," consisting of a translation "into right good and fayr Englyssh" of Jean de Teonville's French version of a Latin work, "a glorious fair mirror to all good Christian people."

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  • He was the eldest son of a noble Breton house.

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  • There lived at that time, within the precincts of Notre-Dame, under the care of her uncle, the canon Fulbert, a young girl named Heloise, of noble extraction, and born about 1101.

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  • On the 1st of November Lord Canning, now viceroy of India, published the noble proclamation in which the change was announced, and a full amnesty was offered to all the rebels who had not been leaders in the revolt or were not guilty of the murder of British subjects.

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  • Their obscure and knotty language only serves to give peculiar brilliancy to the not uncommon passages of noble perspicacity.

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  • Neither Leonardo's genius nor his noble manners could soften the rude and taunting temper of the younger man, whose style as an artist, nevertheless, in subjects both of tenderness and terror, underwent at this time a profound modification from Leonardo's example.

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  • He had attached to himself a new and devoted young friend and pupil of noble birth, Francesco Melzi.

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  • To about this time, when he was approaching his sixtieth year, may belong the noble portraitdrawing of himself in red chalk at Turin.

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  • He belonged to a noble Saxon family, was bishop of Bamberg, and chancellor to the emperor Henry III., to whom he was indebted for his elevation to the papacy upon the abdication of Gregory VI.

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  • These "three friends" were Cornelius Felton, Louis Agassiz and Charles Sumner, whom he calls "The noble three, Who half my life were more than friends to me."

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  • This is not the highest praise that can be given to works of art; but it implies less dispraise in Longfellow's case than in almost any other, by reason of his noble subjectivity.

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  • Notwithstanding this, however, Marco Polo can still, in the following century, describe it as "a noble city and a great."

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  • His father was an advocate at the parlement of Grenoble, and his mother was a woman of high birth, superior ability and noble character.

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  • It has a noble facade with a deeply recessed portico, and a brick campanile of 1414.

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  • During the latter part of its course this noble river expands into a large estuary containing many islands, the principal of which is that of Dakshin Shahbazpur.

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  • But nothing was yet done to modify the relative positions of noble and serf.

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  • The pureblood Ruman population, noble and plebeian, inhabited the cities and towns or larger villages; the peasantry were mostly of Little Russian and Hungarian race, and were in a servile condition.

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  • At the commencement of his new career he enriched the academical collection with many memoirs, which excited a noble emulation between him and the Bernoullis, though this did not in any way affect their friendship. It was at this time that he carried the integral calculus to a higher degree of perfection, invented the calculation of sines, reduced analytical operations to a greater simplicity, and threw new light on nearly all parts of pure mathematics.

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  • Each of us looks back to a noble past.

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  • From the hill that rises behind the tomb there is a noble prospect of his beloved city, and of the all-fruitful plain stretching to the north of it.

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  • He was a Greek, and his enrolment among the protectores domestici (household guards) shows that he was of noble birth.

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  • A thousand mountain torrents have scooped out for themselves picturesque ravines, clothed with an ever-fresh verdure of prickly thorns, stunted gnarled shrubs, and here and there a noble forest tree.

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  • We are not accurately informed how Whiston obtained possession of this work; but it is stated by one of the editors of the English edition " that Mr Whiston, thinking it a pity that so noble and useful a work should be doomed to a college confinement, obtained leave to make it public."

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  • His paternal grandfather was a rich clothier of Wotton-under-Edge; on his mother's side he was connected with the noble family of the Poyntzes of Acton.

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  • Of noble birth, he adopted the profession of arms and with other Burgundians fought in the English ranks at Agincourt.

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  • The chief feature of the rooms was his noble library, the cherished collection of a lifetime.

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  • In the front of the Sorbonne, below the lecture rooms of the faculty of letters, a tablet records an extract from his will, in which he bequeaths his noble and cherished library to the halls of his professorial work and triumphs.

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  • Flaith (flah = noble chief) was a term applied to a man of this rank.

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  • Philip must have been satisfied with Requesens, for he named him viceroy in Milan, a post usually given to a great noble.

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  • He himself claimed only the power of foreseeing the future; yet in Rome it was said that he raised from death the body of a noble lady.

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  • The seaports soon recovered from their losses in the Black Death, and English shipping was beginning to appear in the distant seas of Portugal and the Baltic. Nothing illustrates the growth of English wealth better than the fact that the kingdom had, till the time of Edward IlL, contrived to conduct all its commerce with a currency of small silver, but that within thirty years of his introduction of a gold coinage in 1343, the English noble was being struck in enormous quantities.

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  • His chosen instruments were two men whom his enemies called his favorites, though it was absurd to apply the name either to an elderly statesman like Michael de la Pole, who was made chancellor in 1384, or to Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, a young noble of the oldest lineage, who was the kings other confidant.

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  • For the successive attainders of the Lancastrians and the Nevilles had swept away many of the older noble families, and Edwards house of peers consisted for the main part of new men, his own partisans promoted for good service, who had not the grip on the land that their predecessors had possessed.

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  • Burke from principle, and his noble patrons mainly from lower motives, were opposed to any such change.

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  • Apart from the parliamentary crisis, really hingeing on the difficulty of discovering a means by which the real will of the people should be carried out without actually making the House of Commons autocratically omnipotent, but also without allowing the House of Lords to obstruct a Liberal government merely as the organ of the Tory party, the new king succeeded to a noble heritage.

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  • The noble suitors crowded round him speaking words of respect while plotting evil in the depths of their hearts.

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  • And ecclesiastical supremacy was the bondage from which those brave and noble men delivered us.

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  • In the Vedic sutras, the word aryan is used to refer to those who are spiritually oriented and of noble character.

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  • Having passed the river Remni, we approached the noble castle of Caerdyf, situated on the banks of the river TAF.

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  • In this book he skilfully and poetically explains the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path and other basic Buddhist teachings.

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  • Then one of the warriors let a dart fly from his hand, so that it pierced all too deeply Ethelred's noble thegn.

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  • Whatever is noble, whatever is dignified, whatever is reverent, whatever is lofty, not trashy, mundane, common.

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  • Of the French prose versions of the Historia de proeliis may be noticed the late romance, L' Histoire du noble et vaillant roy Alixandre le Grant (1506).

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  • He rejects the attempt to explain human personality as " generated by the material molecular aggregate of its own unaided latent power," and affirms that the " universe where the human spirit is more at home than it is among these temporary collocations of matter" is " a universe capable of infinite development, of noble contemplation, and of lofty joy, long after this planet - nay the whole solar system - shall have fulfilled its present spire of destiny, and retired cold and lifeless upon its endless way " (pp. 199-200).

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  • The cause of this sudden eclipse was the cruel vengeance he took on the milites, or noble order, who, emulating the example of their brethren in Bohemia, were already attempting to curb the royal power.

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  • To be a fraction of the corporate sovereign, if it had its gains, had also its disadvantages; the Venetian noble was fettered by burthens, restrictions and suspicions from which the Venetian citizen was free.

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  • Before a year had passed a conspiracy was formed against him by an ambitious noble called Basil (Vassili) Shuiski, and he was assassinated in the Kremlin.

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  • This noble queen, whose career was as distinguished as that of her father and brother, left one daughter, Ælfwyn.

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  • He who will cast aside the "Bonds," the "Intoxications," the "Hindrances," and tread the Noble Eightfold Path (see Buddhism) which leads to Nirvana, will attain the ideal, the "Fruit of Arahatship," which is described in terms of glowing praise in the Pali hymns.

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  • He gained from the struggle a more catholic view of human happiness, at delight in the poetry of nature and the affections as well as the poetry of heroic unselfishness, a disposition to study more sympathetically the point of view of opponents, a more courteous style of polemic, a hatred of sectarianism, an ambition,, no less noble and disinterested, but moderated to practical' possibilities.

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  • Marino kept a minute entry of his expenses, a document of the highest value, not merely for the history of the building, but also for the light it throws on the private life of the great patricians who gave to Venice such noble examples of art.

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  • The first doge elected in Rialto was Angelo Particiaco, a Heraclean noble, with a strong bias towards Byzantium, and his reign was signalized by the building of the first church of San Marco, and by the translation of the saint's body from Alexandria, as though to affirm and to symbolize the creation of united Venice.

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  • But it was an easier thing to consecrate the fighting instinct than to curb it; and the institution of chivalry represents such a clerical consecration, for ideal ends and noble purposes, of the martial impulses which the Church had hitherto endeavoured to check.

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  • It is surrounded by huge hollows containing noble palm groves; and beyond these on every side stretches the limitless desert with its great billows of sand, the encroachments of which on the oasis are only held at bay by ceaseless toil.

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  • Richelieu had sent to the block the first noble of France, the last of a family illustrious for seven centuries, the feudal head of the nobility of Languedoc; then, unmoved by threats or entreaties, inexorable as fate itself, he cowed all opposition by his relentless vengeance.

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  • The leading spirit of this reform was Giano della Bella, a noble who by engaging in trade had become a popolano; the grandi now tried to make him unpopular with the popolani grassi, hoping that without him the Ordinamenti would not be executed, and opened negotiations with Pope Boniface VIII.

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  • This order played a noble part in the protection of Tuscan commerce, by fighting the Barbary pirates and establishing the prestige of the grand-ducal navy (see Medici).

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  • Altogether, in spite of some shortcomings, Grant was a massive, noble and lovable personality, well fit to be remembered as one of the heroes of a great nation.

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  • Wollner, whom Frederick the Great had described as a "treacherous and intriguing priest," had started life as a poor tutor in the family of General von Itzenplitz, a noble of the mark of Brandenburg, had, after the general's death and to the scandal of king and nobility, married the general's daughter, and with his mother-in-law's assistance settled down on a small estate.

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  • Her noble attitude, even in the face of the atrocious accusations of Fouquier-Tinville, commanded the admiration even of her enemies, and her answers during her long examination were clear and skilful.

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  • The annates were thereafter to accrue to the king; and bishops and archbishops were thenceforth, in case the pope refused to confirm them,' to be consecrated and invested within the realm, " in like manner as divers other archbishops and bishops have been heretofore in ancient times by sundry the king's most noble progenitors."

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  • Apart from certain blemishes and awkward and even incorrect renderings, Tyndale's translation may be described as a truly noble work, faithful and scholarly, though couched in simple and popular language.

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  • The homely terseness of his style, his abounding humour - rough, cheery and playful, but irresistible in its simplicity, and occasionally displaying sudden and dangerous barbs of satire - his avoidance of dogmatic subtleties, his noble advocacy of practical righteousness, his bold and open denunciation of the oppression practised by the powerful, his scathing diatribes against ecclesiastical hypocrisy, the transparent honesty of his fervent zeal, tempered by sagacious moderation - these are the qualities which not only rendered his influence so paramount in his lifetime, but have transmitted his memory to posterity as perhaps that of the one among his contemporaries most worthy of our interest and admiration.

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  • He is said by Herodotus and others to have been of Phoenician extraction, but the more common account (see Diogenes Laertius) is that he was a native Milesian of noble birth.

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  • P. vacciniifolium, 6 to to in., is a pretty prostrate subshrubby species, with handsome rose-pink flowers, suitable for rockwork, and prefers boggy soil; P. affine (Brunonis), I ft., deep rose, is a showy border plant, flowering in the late summer; P. cuspidatum, 8 to To ft., is a grand object for planting where a screen is desired, as it suckers abundantly, and its tall spotted stems and handsome cordate leaves have quite a noble appearance.

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  • And yet he, who was generally the haughtiest and most irritable of mankind, who was but too prompt to resent anything which looked like a slight on the part of a purse-proud bookseller, or of a noble and powerful patron, bore patiently from mendicants, who, but for his bounty, must have gone to the workhouse, insults more provoking than those for which he had knocked down Osborne and bidden defiance to Chesterfield.

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  • In point of fact, Schiller's genius lacks that universality which characterizes Goethe's; as a dramatist, a philosopher, an historian, and a lyric poet, he was the exponent of ideas which belong rather to the Europe of the period before the French Revolution than to our time; we look to his high principles of moral conduct, his noble idealism and optimism, rather as the ideal of an age that has passed away than as the expression of the more material ambitions of the modern world.

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  • The plebeians (plebs, plebes) are the complement (from root pleo, fill, see Plebs) of the noble families possessing a genealogy, and include all the free population other than the patricians.

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  • Though their full style as proclaimed by the herald is "most high, potent and noble prince," and they are included in the Almanach de Gotha, they are not recognized as the equals in blood of the crowned or mediatized dukes of the continent, and the daughter of an English duke marrying a foreign royal prince can only take his title by courtesy, or where, under the "house-laws" of certain families, a family council sanctions the match.

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  • This alone, however, does not account for the peculiar character of the Sauternes, for during the latter period of ripening a specific microorganism termed Botrytis cinerea develops on the grape, causing a peculiar condition termed pourriture noble (German Edelfaule), which appears to be responsible for the remarkable bouquet observed in the wines.

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  • It was a house for the daughters of noble Saxon families and was richly endowed; owning at one time a territory about 40 sq.

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  • The Italian school was founded by SA de Miranda (q.v.), a man of noble character who, on his return in 1526 from a six years' stay in Italy, where he had foregathered with the leading writers of the day, initiated a reform of Portuguese literature which amounted to a revolu- tistas.

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  • The eccentric duchess of Marlborough, dying in 1744, at the age of ninety, left him a legacy of Lio,000 as an "acknowledgment of the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England and to prevent the ruin of his country."

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  • Albeit of illustrious descent, the genealogies which represent Arnulf as an Aquitanian noble, and his family as connected - by more or less complicated devices - with the saints honoured in Aquitaine, are worthless, dating from the time of Louis the Pious in the 9th century.

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  • Joinville was the head of a noble family of the province of Champagne (see Joinville, above).

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  • It has been disputed whether the name was written originally d'Arc or Darc. It is beyond doubt that the father of Joan was not of noble origin, but Bouteiller suggests that at that period the apostrophe did not indicate nobility.

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  • Buddha replies by explaining to them the principles of his new gospel, in the form of noble truths, and the Noble Eightfold Path (see Buddhism).

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  • Of the six parts into which it is divided, the first translates into manysided music the joys and sorrows, the thoughts and fancies, the studies and ardours and speculations of youth; the second, as full of light and colour, grows gradually deeper in tone of thought and music; the third is yet riper and more various in form of melody and in fervour of meditation; the fourth is the noblest of all tributes ever paid by song to sorrow - a series of poems consecrated to the memory of the poet's eldest daughter, who was drowned, together with her husband, by the upsetting of a boat off the coast of Normandy, a few months after their wedding-day, in 1843; the fifth and the sixth books, written during his first four years of exile (all but one noble poem which bears date nine years earlier than its epilogue or postscript), contain more than a few poems unsurpassed and unsurpassable for depth and clarity and trenchancy of thought, for sublimity of inspiration, for intensity of faith, for loyalty in translation from nature, and for tenderness in devotion to truth; crowned and glorified and completed by their matchless dedication to the dead.

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  • To these generalizations there are few exceptions, though Icelandic literature includes a group of poems which possess qualities of high imagination, deep pathos, fresh love of nature, passionate dramatic power, and noble simplicity of language which Icelandic poetry lacks.

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  • Beginning with the sagas of the west, most perfect in style and form, the earliest in subject is that of Gold-Thori (c. 930), whose adventurous career it relates; Hensa-porissaga tells of the burning of Blund-Ketil, a noble chief, an event which led to Thord Gelli's reforms next year (c. 964); Gislasaga (960-980) tells of the career and death of that ill-fated outlaw; it is beautifully written, and the verses by the editor (13th century) are good and appropriate; Hord's Saga (980) is the life of a band of outlaws on Whalesfirth, and especially of their leader Hord.

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  • There is, however, hardly anything dramatic in the poem, but the characters deliver magnificent descriptions of Montenegro and Montenegrins, and the play is full of noble sentiments and great thoughts.

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  • Isn't that lovely and noble!

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  • Always pursue what is good, noble, beautiful.

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  • If there is still doubt how can he realize the noble Truths?

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  • It remained in the possession of this noble family, with but little interruption, till 1620.

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  • Note the large scutellum and shiny appearance compared with the Noble Chafer left.

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  • Emphasis was placed on a noble portrayal of Tristan, highly skilled in the craft of courtly love.

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  • In Othello, the idea of the treacherous Moor versus the noble white man is inverted, subverting the stereotype.

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  • The noble Suitors crowded round him speaking words of respect while plotting evil in the depths of their hearts.

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  • Having passed the river Remni, we approached the noble castle of Caerdyf, situated on the banks of the river Taf.

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  • Then one of the warriors let a dart fly from his hand, so that it pierced all too deeply Ethelred 's noble thegn.

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  • Divine peace glows on all the majestic landscape like the silent enthusiastic joy that sometimes transfigures a noble human face.

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  • Islam was the cement he used to unite the Arab tribes; commerce was to be the only noble occupation.

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  • The noble comb machine revolutionized the worsted textile industry and was distributed world wide.

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  • For a list of the best books, visit sites like Barnes and Noble where you'll find age appropriate book recommendations.

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  • Barnes & Noble is another top-notch store for book shopping.

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  • Conduct a search for a book you want at Barnes & Noble.

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  • Barnes & Noble has an amazing array of books on tennis instruction in their Sports section, including titles on successful doubles play, tennis rules and basic training.

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  • Barnes & Noble offers a nice selection of instructional yoga videos and DVDs in its DVD and Video section.

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  • Noble Fir stays fragrant longer than most evergreen needles and has a silvery-blue hue.

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  • You can also check out their swags, garland, and small Noble Fir Christmas trees.

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  • They use Balsam Fir, Noble Fir, Shorewood Pine, and Wild Boxwood.

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  • In addition to the membership card, there is a Barnes & Noble Mastercard; when you sign up there, you may receive a special offer, such as a discount, money back, or a gift card.

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  • Barnes and Noble can show you what other readers thought of the books you're considering, plus make recommendations for others that may hold your interest.

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  • If you have a Barnes & Noble, Borders or a Books-A-Million near you, check there first if you are in need of a crossword dictionary soon.

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  • Borders is very similar to Barnes & Noble in their online strategy, but you may find different crossword dictionaries here than on other sites.

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  • For instance, Kindle owners can shop from Amazon's vast selection of eBooks, Nook owners buy direct from Barnes and Noble and Kobo users have access to eBooks sold by Borders Books.

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  • Barnes and Noble is one of the most popular booksellers to find specials on new and older releases.

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  • Barnes and Noble's Nook is also a huge contender thanks to its recently released model boasting a brand new full color screen.

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  • There are also many different offerings out there, but perhaps the best and most well known are the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, the Apple iPad and the Sony Readers.

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  • Nook's bookstores include Barnes and Noble eBookstore and Google Books.

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  • The Nook is an e-reading device sold by Barnes & Noble Booksellers.

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  • Barnes & Noble has over two million titles available for the Nook, many of which are available for free or less than ten dollars.

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  • For those with Wi-Fi capable Nooks, you can enter any Barnes & Noble, connect to the store's free Wi-Fi service and read any book for free for up to one hour per day.

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  • The Nook eReader was originally only available through Barnes & Noble Booksellers and the company's website, but now it's available from a wide range of stores both physical and online.

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  • Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook both offer readers easy access to a huge library of books on the run, but different features and construction mean that each has its pros and cons.

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  • Of course, you can go right to the source and buy your Kindle from Amazon or Nook from Barnes and Noble.

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  • For example, Barnes & Noble has a summer reading program where students can earn one free book by completing a reading log showing they've read eight age appropriate titles.

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  • Barnes & Noble University Online is set up primarily to sell books to support the classes, but the courses are pretty good and cover topics ranging from basic foreign languages to understanding science.

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  • Barnes and Noble sells books through its website in addition to its standard retail locations.

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  • Barnes and Noble University is a popular source for free courses and reading groups.

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  • Stores like Starbucks, McDonald's and Barnes and Noble also offer WI-FI hotspots where people can wirelessly connect to the Internet, though you might have to buy something to be able to use it.

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  • While it might seem noble to stand beside and support a bad friend, don't think you have to be there for someone who brings you down.

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  • Lowell took his basic collection of bedding and linens one step further when he partnered with Smith + Noble, America's leading resource for window treatments®.

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  • It's not like she's volunteering her time or money toward some noble deed like helping those in need or volunteering at a local children's hospital or starting a foundation to help…well, anybody who needs help.

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  • Chelsea Noble joined the cast in 1989, playing Mike Seaver's girlfriend.

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  • Married to Chelsea Noble in 1991, Cameron now has six children with four beingadopted.

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  • Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal - These siblings' mother is Jewish, while their father was born in the Swedenborgian religion, being part of the Swedish noble family.

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  • Since Girl Scouts stand for things that are good and noble, it's important that a scout look clean, tidy and put together.

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  • The noble cruise ambience pervades even this laid-back option with background piano music and wait staff providing drinks.

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  • It's a noble effort, but unfortunately not every pup is going to wind up in an ideal living situation.

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  • Rottweilers are a popular breed thanks to their combination of noble aloofness, intelligence and irresistible clownish behavior.

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  • You are helping a loving, loyal, noble breed, and that is somethingof which you canbe proud.

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  • The nakedness of "savages," for example, has been imagined as evidence of their inferior humanness-but it has also been subject to romanticization (the "naturalness" of the "noble savage").

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  • A noble evergreen Tree Fern, having a stout trunk, 30 feet high or more, the fronds forming a magnificent crown, often 20 to 30 feet across.

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  • Scolymus, much grown as food, is of noble form and much beauty.

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  • In its own land it makes a noble evergreen tree 90 to 100 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 4, 6, or even 8 feet in rare instances where the trees have endured for centuries.

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  • Cape Hyacinth (Galtonia) - A noble bulb from the Cape, G. candicans having spires of waxy, white, bell-like blossoms, 1 1/2 inches long, on stems 4 to 6 feet high, in late summer and autumn.

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  • We have so many beautiful and noble hardy trees that we can well dispense with grafted hybrids.

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  • California, we look for a tree hardy enough for our island climate, and in this noble Hemlock we have it.

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  • Himalayan Laurel (Aucuba) - A noble evergreen which came into this country in a curious way.

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  • Ivy (Hedera) - H. helix is the most beautiful evergreen climber of our northern and temperate world, and is a noble garden plant that may be used in many ways.

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  • L. crenulata is similar, but not quite so hardy, though it succeeds in the mildest localities, as will also the Chili L. chilensis, a tree Fern of noble growth.

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  • In such a noble family of trees, often fine in form and color, the planting of variegated kinds is a mistake.

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  • P. tenax is the common green-leaved kind, and is a noble plant of very vigorous growth, but tender.

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  • Tree Peony (Paeonia Moutan) - A noble plant of great beauty for its varieties, which are very numerous.

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  • Bare borders are not the places where this noble Lily does or looks best-there is no shelter or support for plants which in their own country have many shrubs for companions and are sheltered by the finest trees of the northern world.

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  • America is a noble plant in the summer garden, but will not stand our winters in the open.

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  • Europe generally, it is a noble tree in the southern parts of England, attaining its best size, height, and form in good valley soils, and there are many fine examples of it in the Thames Valley.

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  • Rhododendron Falconeri - A noble kind thriving in Cornish gardens, with oblong leaves about 10 inches long, coated beneath with reddish down, dark green, slightly downy and curiously wrinkled above.

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  • There is no need to make a class of Japanese Roses; we should do much better to keep to the one noble wild Rose of Japan, rugosa.

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  • Calceolaria Pavonii - A noble kind, from 2 to 4 feet high, with large light green, much-wrinkled foliage, bearing large, pale yellow, slipper-shaped blossoms.

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  • Walnut (Juglans) - Stately trees of northern and eastern regions, among them being our noble European Walnut, a tree as well known to the ancients as to ourselves, and useful and beautiful in all ways.

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  • Carnea - A noble hardy plant, in color a soft flesh-pink, deepening towards the base of the petals and paling gradually to white.

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  • Common guitar sellers (such as Guitar Center or Sam Ash) and most larger book retailers (such as Amazon.com, Borders or Barnes and Noble) have books of tabs that customers can purchase.

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  • There were several variations of hose styles, including the classic "slops" (as seen in this picture of a noble from 1570) which are often associated with Shakespearean costumes.

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  • Another major difference between the common man's clothing and the noble's was the quantity.

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  • If the senior has a computer, a gift certificate or card from Amazon or Barnes & Noble is a great gift.

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  • But the irritants of the multiplayer maps were similar to the ones in single-person mode and we quit after 10 minutes and went to Barnes and Noble.

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  • The ice blue and navy colors arrived a few days after the Crystal White and then four months later, Nintendo added the Noble Pink color.

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  • Soon, Coral Pink (or Noble Pink) and a Platinum DS Lite released.

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  • Try the 2008 Terra Noble Carmenère Maule Valley Reserva, or a similar Maule Valley Carmenere from the current vintage.

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  • This noblest of noble grapes has found its natural home here and it comprises the majority of plantings.

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  • In Textbook of Primary Care Medicine, 3rd ed. Edited by John Noble.

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  • The more noble you were, the more likely it was that you had long, braided hair, particularly in Asia.

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  • Specialty origami paper can be purchased at Japanese variety stores and at book stores, such as Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

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  • In addition to the Gyllenhaal family's accomplishments in the entertainment industry, they are also descendants of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.

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  • You can find Webkinz Jr. at most stores where you are able to purchase Webkinz and Lil'kinz, including brick-and-mortar stores like Wal-Mart, Hallmark, Target, and Barnes & Noble.

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  • Barnes & Noble always keeps a nice stock of this series.

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  • The obvious answer is to play up your dog's size, and choose noble, protective costumes, such as sheriffs, firefighters, or superheroes.

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  • Wealthy or noble people of the Renaissance period wore rich fabrics and colors.

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  • It is very noble of you to want to make this woman's dreams come true.

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  • According to Chinese astrology, the Ox is a noble character indeed.

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  • This sign, in its balanced form, presents a stable, hygienic, noble individual, but an inauspicious astrological aspect can result in a hypercritical, paranoid and stringent individual who makes a miserable partner.

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  • Educational stores like Holcomb's and book stores like Barnes and Noble also carry kids' puzzle games.

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  • Current Codes has a full-time staff that works to post coupon codes from Amazon, Staples, Barnes and Noble, and other popular retailers.

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  • While wanting to live within your means is certainly a noble goal, it's worth pointing out that a strict philosophy of debt free living does have its disadvantages.

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  • The company is a subsidiary of the Barnes & Noble publishing group, so writers are subjected to an intensive screening and training process that ensures they understand how to prepare a high quality study guide.

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  • You can find Barnes and Noble coupons to use at the store or online to save money on books, DVDs, music, magazines, toys, and items for your home.

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  • Barnes and Noble carries a wide range of products that makes it the perfect place to shop for gifts.

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  • Barnes and Noble is the largest book seller in the United States, selling over 300 million books each year.

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  • Many of the retail stores also house a Starbucks coffee shop, making Barnes and Noble the second largest coffee house in the country.

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  • Barnes and Noble began in 1873, and was founded by Charles Barnes as a book printing establishment.

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  • Clifford Noble in 1917, and the pair opened the first Barnes and Noble book store in New York City.

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  • In his rhymed chronicle Robert of Gloucester tells how "A bourgois at Bristowe - Robert Harding Vor gret tresour and richesse - so wel was mid the king That he gat him and is eirs - the noble baronie That so riche is of Berkele - mid al the seignorie."

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  • Two years afterwards he published Les Orientales, a volume of poems so various in style, so noble in spirit, so perfect in workmanship, in music and in form, that they might alone suffice for the foundation of an immortal fame.

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  • Angelo, Tyran de Padoue (1835), the last of the tragic triad to which their creator denied the transfiguration of tragic verse, is inferior to neither in power of imagination and of style, in skill of invention and construction, and in mastery over all natural and noble sources of pity and of terror.

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  • In command and in expression of passion and of pathos, of noble and of evil nature, it equals any other work of this great dramatic poet; in the lifelike fusion of high comedy with deep tragedy it excels them all.

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  • Between the dates of these two great books appeared La Voix de Guernesey, a noble and terrible poem on the massacre of Mentana which branded and commemorated for ever the papal and imperial infamy of the colleagues in that crime.

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  • The unfinished poems, Dieu and La Fin de Satan, are full to overflowing of such magnificent work, such wise simplicity of noble thought, such heroic and pathetic imagination, such reverent and daring faith, as no other poet has ever cast into deathless words and set to deathless music. Les Jumeaux, an unfinished tragedy, would possibly have been the very greatest of his works if it had been completed on the same scale and on the same lines as it was begun and carried forward to the point at which it was cut short for ever.

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  • Joan Beaufort, wife of Ralph Nevill, 1st earl of Westmoreland, by whom she became an ancestor of Edward IV., Richard III., Warwick the Henry John King Maker and many Beaufort, Beaufort, noble families.

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  • But he had that quality which Aristotle places high among the virtues - the noble mean of Magnificence, standing midway between the two extremes of vulgar ostentation and narrow pettiness.

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  • In all its varieties Burke's style is noble, earnest, deep-flowing, because his sentiment was lofty and fervid, and went with sincerity and ardent disciplined travail of judgment.

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  • The vileness of such criticism was punished, as it deserved to be, in the Letter to a Noble Lord (1796), in which Burke showed the usual art of all his compositions in shaking aside the insignificances of a subject.

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  • In 1030 there arrived William and Drogo, the two eldest sons of Tancred of Hauteville, a petty noble of Coutances in Normandy..

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  • There is more force in the charge that his Hellenic sympathies prevented him from seeing the innate weakness and mutual jealousies of the Greek states of that period, whose only hope of peace and safety lay in submitting to the protectorate of the Roman republic. But if the event proved that the liberation of Greece was a political mistake, it was a noble and generous mistake, and reflects nothing but honour on the name of Flamininus, "the liberator of the Greeks."

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  • On the north side of the Augustaion rose the church of St Sophia, the most glorious cathedral of Eastern Christendom; opposite, on the southern side of the square, was the Chalce, the great gate of the imperial palace; on the east was the senate house, with a porch of six noble columns; to the west, across the Mese, were the law courts.

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  • The noble tower, however, which formed the citadel of the colony, still remains, and is a striking feature in the scenery of Constantinople.

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  • His family is said to have been of noble and ancient descent; his father belonged to the equestrian order, and was very wealthy.

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  • The upper chamber (Standesherren) is composed of adult princes of the blood, heads of noble families from the rank of count (Graf) upwards, representatives of territories (Standesherrschaften), which possessed votes in the old German imperial diet or in the local diet; it has also members (not more than 6) nominated by the king, 8 members of knightly rank, 6 ecclesiastical dignitaries, a representative of the university of Tubingen, and of the technical high school of Stuttgart, 2 representatives of commerce and industry, 2 of agriculture, and i of handicrafts.

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  • On the 27th he wrote to those clerical and noble deputies who still held out, urging submission.

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  • The Law of Suspects, passed at the same time, declared suspect every person who was of noble birth, or had held office before the Revolution, or had any connexion with an émigré, or could not produce a card of civisme granted by the local authority, which had full discretion to refuse.

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  • The noble collection of paintings which formerly adorned the Dusseldorf gallery was removed to Munich in 1805, and has not since been restored; but there is no lack of artistic treasures in the town.

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  • Pleasure, in Aristotle's view, is not the primary constituent of well-being, but rather an inseparable accident of it; human well-being is essentially well-doing, excellent activity of some kind, whether its aim and end be abstract truth or noble conduct; knowledge and virtue are objects of rational choice apart from the pleasure attending them; still all activities are attended and in a manner perfected by pleasure, which is better and more desirable in proportion to the excellence of the activity.

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  • They range from the rough and noble pathos of Egil, the mystic obscurity of Kormak, the pride and grief of Hallfred, and the marvellous fluency of Sighvat, to the florid intricacy of Einar and Markus.

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  • The post-classical literature falls chiefly under three heads - religious, literary and scientific. Under the first comes foremost the noble translation of the New Testament by Odd Gottskalksson, son of the bishop of Holar.

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  • His writings appear to show that he had made a special study of the law; and this is the more likely as he appears to have been of noble birth and could describe one of his relations as being "of no small account in her own district and not obscure in family" (Ep. i.).

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  • His father destined him from the first for an ecclesiastical career, and paid for his education in the household of the noble family of Hangest de Montmor.

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  • At one corner of the picturesque square in front of it is a Roman sarcophagus with a representation of the hunt of Meleager, with an inscription in honour of the fair Galiana, to win whom, it is said, a Roman noble laid siege to Viterbo in 1135.

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  • During the earliest years of the Anglo-Saxon rule in England the word was probably used to denote any person of noble birth.

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  • Among the miscellaneous body of attendants about the house of a king or noble were many Saxon slaves, in whom there was a regular trade until it was abolished by the action of the church in 1171.

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  • As a consequence of this, in place of receiving the farm produce at his own home the chief or noble reserved to himself the right of quartering himself and a certain number of followers in the house of his vassal, a practice which must have been ruinous to the small farmers.

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  • The noble professions almost invariably 'ran in families, so that members of the same household devoted themselves for generations to one particular science or art, such as poetry, history, medicine, law.

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  • Thus armed, and provided with gold extorted from his former subjects in Leinster, Dermod went to Bristol and sought the acquaintance of Richard de Clare, earl of Pembroke, a Norman noble of great ability but broken fortunes.

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  • His family was accounted noble, and was possessed of considerable property.

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  • Under his rule Bec became the first seat of learning in Europe, a result due not more to his intellectual powers than to the great moral influence of his noble character and kindly discipline.

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  • There was nothing noble about Louis XI.

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  • The decrees of the 4th of August, proposed by those noble patriots the duc dAiguillon and the vicomte de Noailles, who had already on the 23rd of June made armed resistance to the evacuation of the Hall of Assembly, August 4.

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  • He was of noble family, and in 238 was princeps senates.

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  • His order and enumeration of the principles of being, his doctrine of the double aspect of intellect, and of the perfect beatitude which consists in the aggregation of noble minds when they are delivered from the separating barriers of individual bodies, present at least in germ the characteristic theory of Averroes.

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  • The noble church of St Wulfram, Grantham, with one of the finest spires in England, is also principally Decorated; this style in fact is particularly well displayed in Kesteven, as in the churches of Caythorpe, Claypole, Navenby and Ewerby.

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  • His father, Vincenzio, was an impoverished descendant of a noble Florentine house, which had exchanged the surname of Bonajuti for that of Galilei, on the election, in 1 343, of one of its members, Tommaso de' Bonajuti, to the college of the twelve Buonuomini.

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  • The Arab was incurably anarchical, and was a noble who had no political idea except the tribal one.

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  • The rule went to the sultana, and her trusted agent Ibn AbI Amir Mahommed ben Abdallahan Arab of noble descent, who in his early life was a scribe, and who rose by making himself useful first to the ministers and to the favorite wife.

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  • Berengaria, a woman of very noble character and eminent ability, deserved a better husband than her cousin of Leon, who was nicknamed El Babosothe Slobbererand who appears to have been epileptic. In 1212 the king of Castile reaped the reward of long years of patience.

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  • But the distinctions between Class Disnoble and not noble, between town and country, were tinctions.

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  • But in this land, where nothing was consistent, there was in reality no sharp division except in the smaller and feudal portioncalled Aragon for convenmenceand save as between Christian and non-Christian, noble and non-noble.

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  • In many places the movement was simply an excuse for a revival of private wars between wealthy noble families.

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  • He remained every bit the noble Greek prince with his commanding blue gaze and chiseled features.

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  • She couldn't help thinking about all the Guardians buried around her home and if they'd been as dedicated and noble as those she'd met.

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  • His noble features and cold, aloof air gave her the impression of an ancient Greek prince.

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  • His dark skin was offset by brilliant turquoise eyes, his noble carriage and cold features giving him the appearance of an ancient prince.

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  • Not a noble pastime for one who will wed our next ruler, the second said with a frown.

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  • This noble restraint wasn't entirely out of respect for Dean's condition.

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  • Her fate was uncertain, but his was sealed.  She saw it on his face every time he looked at her.  Where he'd once looked almost noble with his chiseled features and air of command, he now looked haggard.  When she gave herself too much time to think, she began to understand the depth of the despair he must've been feeling.  After all, her own soul – and that of her daughter's – was just as likely to be lost if she didn't escape.

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  • Jenn, the only daughter of a low-ranking noble's servant, repeated the mantra of the Guardians for days before taking the sacred oath.

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  • The little boy cut through the central square, where neat stone walkways hedged by vibrant grass wound around the familial obelisks marking the bloodline and succession of each noble house.

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  • From a lower immortal noble House, she'd been sent into the Guardians at a young age, a spare child to a House too poor to support her.

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  • This noble alloy is found in the magnesium generator cover with titanium screws and dedicated sprocket cover of billet aluminum.

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  • The usual stories of noble ancestry abound, but I've not been able to find out anything more.

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  • Born in a noble family, he became archdeacon of Tours in France, where his father was bishop.

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  • Have a go at the noble art of archery with the local team of expert archers.

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  • Step 3. Finally some form of noble aspiration, or even idealism, is generated.

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  • Although they were noble, they liked tae caper jist like ony ither bairns.

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  • The noble Lord, Lord Judd, dealt in particular with Clause 8 on desertion, as did the noble baroness, Lady Dean.

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  • I see the noble baroness nodding her assent to that statement.

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  • However, let me point to the contribution made by the noble baroness, Lady Warwick of Undercliffe.

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  • The Home Office letter obstinately refuses to delete the effect leaving only " purpose " as proposed by the noble baroness, Lady Miller.

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  • Secondly, there is the question of the Olympic Games, mentioned by the noble baroness, Lady Strange, and others.

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  • Part of the Union saw many Lithuanian boyars adopted into Polish Noble families.

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  • He also brandished a pair of shears, which he insisted Noble used to trim the grass underneath where she had parked.

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  • From the Roof of the World includes a Tibetan noble's jacket made from a silk brocade woven Chinese carpet.

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  • The great conservation concern for the welfare of the noble chafer is the continuing loss of old orchards.

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  • During my school days I used to have some classmates from such ' noble houses ' .

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  • Left alone, he might have lived and died a noble debauchee, not very different from hundreds of others.

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  • Goodbrand came out fast, obviously looking to avenge the defeat a couple of weeks ago at the Noble Art Show.

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  • While on the Amnesty show, did I detect some sly digs at Noel Fielding from Boothby Graffoe and Ross Noble?

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  • They can not be made noble nor to suffer disgrace.

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  • During the long course of my opposition to the noble Lord, I cannot charge myself with having ever said anything disrespectful of him.

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  • Noble women of the Middle Ages were expected to bring a dowry to the marriage.

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  • A certain ball which a noble duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the above-named year is historical.

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  • Elements from group 3 across to the noble gases all have their outer electrons in p orbitals.

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  • Many of the noble women were believed to be in sexual relations with Rasputin, possibly including the empress.

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  • Tree buyers camped outside a shopping center hours before dawn on Saturday to await a shipment of 130 noble firs flown in from Oregon.

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  • The ancient villa of a noble family is today a small hideaway and relais hotel, with magnificent frescoes in every room.

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  • You said noble brother friars were in the lurch.

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  • Guide to Irish genealogy The legendary Fianna of Ireland were a band of mighty noble warriors.

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  • O now lift up thy song Thy noble note prolong Thou living Chinese gong!

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  • We really could not grudge such a noble bird an easy breakfast.

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  • The ugly old hag has a valid point, against Hilda, the noble Dane.

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  • Looking down I saw a stately carriage and pair, the brilliant lamps gleaming on the glossy haunches of the noble chestnuts.

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  • Kevin Noble of Spon End Red Brick, said the group had recieved financial help from the city council.

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  • Kevin Noble of Spon End Red Brick Residents Association said Railtrack had agreed to remove the hoardings, which were now badly damaged.

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  • Introduction to the Pharaoh hound The Kennel Club describes the dog as ' medium sized, of noble bearing with clean cut lines.

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  • We must reform the Arts Council, to refresh the ambition of the noble ideal Clement Atlee's government had 60 years ago.

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  • He will treat the scurrilous lampoon with noble scorn, reflecting that such things as these are the penalty of greatness.

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  • The noble figure of Simon Bolivar, the great South American liberator, has naturally been compared with that of George Washington.

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  • I'm sure it was only modesty which prevented the noble lord himself from mentioning it.

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  • Yet in the end, his noble qualities were subsumed by his insatiable lust for glory.

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  • There are less noble weapons that you can wield, such as an executioner's ax or spiked maces.

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  • It is the noble mission of the Korean People's Army to safeguard the socialist motherland and the people reliably by force of arms.

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  • I would have you curse yourself now, that your bounty (Which makes men truly noble) e'er should make me A villain.

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  • Just beyond the wall a truly noble prospect presented itself to our eyes.

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  • Our services and activities offer the clearest possible indication of our refusal to be trapped or imprisoned by our history however noble.

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  • Oh you heavens, dares any so noble beare a guilty busines!

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  • It is too noble to be conceived by the intelligences... It is too elevated for thoughts to grasp It.

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  • Klaus claimed he was a German noble, and he certainly had a nobleman 's aversion to work.

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  • That's never a charge you could level at Ross Noble, whose unique mind is always in creative overdrive.

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  • Joan of Acre was buried there in 1307 before a concourse of royal and noble personages.

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  • The winner was Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and noble peace prizewinner.

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  • In 1920, a passing rambler noticed the noble proportions.

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  • However, contrary to what the noble Lord said, bus ridership is up and London Underground is carrying more passengers than ever before.

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  • No ' noble savage ' he, the tasks he prescribes for Jason amount to a death sentence.

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  • In addition to a wide range of general statistics, the deprivation scores from the Noble research are available on the GIS.

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  • If there is to be a " noble lie ", it is also to involve the willful self-deception of the liars.

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  • Sit in the shade, and take inspiration from a bubbling fountain and a neat semicircle of noble Belgian statuary.

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  • Dance, " said the squire, " you are a very noble fellow.

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  • Therefore, one should control oneself, even as a trader controls a noble steed.

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  • He made every labor subservient to this noble end.

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  • The Fancies Chaste and Noble (acted before 1636, printed 1638), though it includes scenes of real force and feeling, is dramatically a failure, of which the main idea is almost provokingly slight and feeble; and The Lady's Trial (acted 1638, printed 1639) is only redeemed from utter wearisomeness by an unusually even pleasingness of form.

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  • The friend of St Teresa, St Peter of Alcantara, and of all the noble minds of Spain of his day, no one among the three hundred Spanish mystics excels Luis de Granada in the beauty of a didactic style, variety of illustration and soberness of statement.

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  • In the beginning of the 16th century one of its leading citizens, Francesco Burlamacchi, made a noble attempt to give political cohesion to Italy, but perished on the scaffold (1548); his statue by Ulisse Cambi was erected on the Piazza San Michele in 1863.1', As a principality formed in 1805 by Napoleon in favour of his sister Elisa and her husband Bacchiocchi, Lucca was for a few years wonderfully prosperous.

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