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He walked like a god, not showing it by his outward gesture, not declaring that it was so by any assumed grace or arrogant carriage of himself; but knowing within himself that that had happened down at Cheltenham which had all but divested him of humanity, and made a star of him.
He used to assert, with that arrogant absurdity which, in spite of his great abilities and virtues, renders him, perhaps the most ridiculous character in literary history, that Demosthenes spoke to a people of brutes; to a barbarous people; that there could have been no civilisation before the invention of printing. Johnson was a keen but a very narrow-minded observer of mankind.
The emperor, in his vexation, foolishly sent an army of five thousand men into Hungary, insanely hoping to take the crown by force of arms, but he was soon compelled to relinquish the hopeless enterprise. And now Frederic and Albert began to quarrel at Vienna. The emperor was arrogant and domineering. Albert was irritable and jealous.
'The lusty lord, rejoicing in his pride, He draweth down; before the armèd knight With jingling bridle-rein he still doth ride; He crosseth the strong captain in the fight'; but such are proud people, arrogant in beauty and strength.
I shall never forget his demeanour towards me, for from the first his attitude was arrogant, cruel, and generally unbearable. He refused me parole, and declined to give me a pass beyond the confines of the camp. The unreasonableness of this hard treatment will be seen when it is remembered that not the slightest possibility of escape from the Island existed.
The poor woman quavered: "Oh, I do believe it! I just know it must be true!" The manufacturer shook his head sorrowfully and sat down, and remained there, looking at the ground. "I am aware," the Altrurian went on, "that what I have said as to our realizing the kingdom of heaven on the earth must seem boastful and arrogant.
"Gettin' a shade less arrogant, what?" said Saunders. "May God be with thee!" said a man in the third stall as King passed. "They seem to be anxious for your morals!" laughed Saunders, keeping a pace or two ahead to do the honors of the place. "May God be with thee!" said a fourth man, and King desisted for the present, because Saunders looked as if he were growing inquisitive.
Grandma was old-fashioned, and Aunt Alice insignificant, in Leslie's eyes, but stunning, arrogant, fearless Aunt Annie was the model upon which she would have based herself if she had known how.
Kings were becoming more powerful; grim spiritual despotism was less arrogant. The end of the world, it was found, had not come. A glorious future began to shed forth the beams of its coming day. It was the dawn of a new civilization. So a lighter, more cheerful, and grander architecture, with symbolic beauties, appeared with changing ideas and sentiments.
This palace was called Placentia by the King because it was pleasant to live in. Cromwell mounted the steps with a slow gait and an arrogant figure.
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