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He was called the Hercules of music; the opera-house was crammed night after night; his footsteps were dogged in the streets by admiring enthusiasts; the wits and poets occupied themselves with composing sonnets in his praise; brilliant courtiers and fine ladies showered valuable gifts on the new musical oracle; he was hailed as the exponent of Rousseauism in music.
And so he took Nature as a figurative exponent of humanity, and extracted the symbolic truths from her productions, and used them nobly in his Art.
The world is full of God's instruments, and He sends punishments by the ordinary play of motives and circumstances, which we best understand when we see behind all His mighty hand and sovereign will. The short-sighted view of history says 'Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem B.C. so and so, and then discourses about the tendencies of which Babylonia was exponent and creature.
Some laughed, some sang a little, softly, to themselves all smiled all spoke in glad, hopeful words, clean words there seemed no base thought in any mind, only that cleanness, that wholesomeness that had so appealed to Marvin that somehow Madison found he was taking a delight in responding to, and, because it afforded him whimsical pleasure, chose to pretend that he was quite a genuine exponent of it himself.
All hail to you, Madame the finest exponent, in all this War, of the art of Carrying On! We know now why France is such a great country. Practically all the business of an Army in the field is transacted by telephone. If the telephone breaks down, whether by the Act of God or of the King's Enemies, that business is at a standstill until the telephone is put right again.
Lincoln's destiny was to be that of an explainer, at first to a local audience in store or tavern or courtroom, then to upturned serious faces of Illinois farmers who wished to hear national issues made clear to them, then to a listening nation in the agony of civil war, and ultimately to a world which looks to Lincoln as an exponent and interpreter of the essence of democracy.
As an eclectic system it had much vogue, side by side with Stoicism and Epicureanism, among the Romans, having as its chief exponent Cicero, as Epicureanism had Lucretius, and Stoicism, Seneca. The common characteristic of all these systems in their later developments, is their cosmopolitanism.
Graydon Sherwen over and present him?" he asked. "I can vouch for him, having known his family at home, and " "Oh, bring them all, Fitzhugh," commanded the girl. The exponent of Southern aristocracy looked uncomfortable. "As to the others," he said, "Mr. Raimonda is a native " "With the manners of a prince. I've quite fallen in love with him already," she said wickedly.
His was the large imagination which conceived a new and expanding England beyond the seas; the broad grasp of ideas which made him a leading exponent of the theory of the Oceanic policy and the new naval methods; the ready practicality which made him, after Drake's day, perhaps the ablest of Elizabeth's captains; the versatility and culture, which place him securely in the second flight of the writers of the time; the breadth of intellectual outlook which caused his enemies to call him an atheist, coupled with an actual sincerity of belief; boundless energy, daring, ambition.
I thought it was the best of all." "Is that what they think at home?" I asked. "Yes, of course." "The Atlantic is broad," I suggested. This man of affairs, an exponent of the efficiency of business, was a sentimentalist when it came to war, as Anglo-Saxons usually are. The side which they favour that is the efficient side.
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