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It may still be possible to overtake the prisoner. France is large; the nearest frontier is sixty leagues distant." "And who is to pursue him?" cried Mazarin. "I, pardieu!" "And you would arrest him?" "Why not?" "You would arrest the Duc de Beaufort, armed, in the field?" "If your eminence should order me to arrest the devil, I would seize him by the horns and would bring him in."

Juvenal looked down upon the corruption of the age from the eminence of his virtue, and punished it like an avenging deity. Persius, pure in heart and passionless by education, while he lashes wickedness in the abstract, almost ignores its existence, and shrinks from probing to the bottom the vileness of the human heart.

Now, Mrs Pipchin, instead of being behind his peers, my son ought to be before them; far before them. There is an eminence ready for him to mount upon. There is nothing of chance or doubt in the course before my son. His way in life was clear and prepared, and marked out before he existed. The education of such a young gentleman must not be delayed. It must not be left imperfect.

But, to the amazement of his Eminence, when the clauses specifying the enormities to which the accused had confessed were being recited, the veteran Master and the preceptor of Normandy rose, and in loud voices, heard of all the people, repudiated the confession, and declared that they were wholly guiltless, and ready to suffer death. They had not long to wait.

I have seen the following passage in a certain, work: "Bonaparte, having arrived at Jaffa, ordered three removals of the infected: one by sea to Damietta, and also by land; the second to Gaza; and the third to El-Arish!" So, many words, so many errors! Some tents were pitched on an eminence near the gardens east of Jaffa.

"Perhaps his Eminence will help you to decide." "Yes; they say he is the cleverest man in Europe." "In that opinion they whoever they may be are mistaken," replied Giovanni. "But he is a man of immense intellect, nevertheless." "I am not sure whether I will paint his portrait after all," said Gouache. "You do not wish to be persuaded?" "No. My own ideas please me very well for the present.

Under whose care he was educated, or in what manner he passed his childhood, whether he made any early discoveries of a genius peculiarly adapted to the study of nature, or gave any presages of his future eminence in medicine, no information is to be obtained.

These are trifling: but by not despising these trifling matters, our ancestors have raised this state to the highest eminence. Now, as if we had no need of the favour of the gods, we violate all religious ceremonies. Wherefore let pontiffs, augurs, kings of the sacrifices be appointed at random. Let us place the tiara of Jupiter's flamen on any person, provided he be a man.

"Yes, my lord cardinal; yes, madame," replied Louis XIV., tearing the parchment which Mazarin had not yet ventured to clutch; "yes, I annihilate this deed, which despoiled a whole family. The wealth acquired by his eminence in my service is his own wealth and not mine." "But, sire, does your majesty reflect," said Anne of Austria, "that you have not ten thousand crowns in your coffers?"

Has he, in fact, done that which, had he been a white man, would have given him a solid and substantial claim to the esteem that he now enjoys?" "There is no evidence that his mind is in any way exceptional," he adds.... "Were he a white man, he never would be singled out for eminence.... He is not an orator; he is not a writer; he is not a thinker. He is something more than these.