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To prevent such a misfortune, he decided to attack the Spartan king while he was too young to excel in the art of war. He therefore advanced with a good army; but, to his surprise and dismay, he was completely defeated by the young king. Several of the smaller towns now showed a desire to leave the Achæan League and join Sparta, so Aratus became more eager than ever to suppress her rising power.
There was a short pause. "I think," said Madame D'Anville, "that it is in those pensees which you admire so much in Rousseau, that our authors in general excel." "You are right," said Vincent, "and for this reason with you les gens de letters are always les gens du monde. Hence their quick perceptions are devoted to men as well as to books.
The railway carriages, like most others on the Continent, greatly excel ours; the 1st class have three spacious seats, the 2nd two double seats, and the 3rd much like our 2nd. It is a good line, and I should think made at a moderate cost, there being few cuttings or embankments, and not many bridges; the rails appeared to be about seven yards long.
In learning, indeed, and all kinds of literature, Greece did excel us, and it was easy to do so where there was no competition; for while among the Greeks the poets were the most ancient species of learned men since Homer and Hesiod lived before the foundation of Rome, and Archilochus was a contemporary of Romulus we received poetry much later.
He shows so little ambition to excel in any particular branch that I should say his choice of a profession may be best determined by his parents. I am, of course, ignorant whether his relatives possess influence likely to be of use to him. That is often the chief point to be considered, particularly in cases like your son's, where no special aptitude manifests itself."
The attempt at making the acquaintance was so successful that in five minutes they were firm friends, and in as many more had laid all kinds of plans for future enjoyment. Both the boys claimed to excel in the art of kinging the ring; but, unfortunately, neither one had a top with him.
In purity of character and in politeness of manners labor to excel all, if you wish to equal many. Adieu. LONDON, January 11, O. S. 1750 MY DEAR FRIEND: Yesterday I received a letter from Mr. Harte, of the 31st December, N. S., which I will answer soon; and for which I desire you to return him my thanks now.
The lowest pheasant is taken first, and then the next above, like fowls perched on the rungs of a ladder; and, indeed, it is not unlikely that those who excel in this kind of work base their operations upon previous experiences in the hen roost. The wood pigeons begin to come home, and the wood is filled with their hollow notes: now here, now yonder, for as one ceases another takes it up.
He is the comrade of his boys: English, French, Germans, Italians, a Spaniard in my time a South American I have sent him two from Boston, Massachusetts and clever! all emulous to excel, none boasting. But, to myself; I was that mean fellow. I did I could let you know: before this young lady she would wither me with her scorn, Enough, I sneaked, I lied.
Most barbarous nations excel in the fabrication of arms; and the Scots had attained great proficiency in forging swords, so early as the field of Pinkie; at which period the historian Patten describes them as 'all notably broad and thin, universally made to slice, and of such exceeding good temper, that as I never saw any so good, so I think it hard to devise better. ACCOUNT OF SOMERSET'S EXPEDITION.
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