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He soon discovered a partiality for me, and he was indeed too pleasing to be seen with indifference. Gratitude for the valuable life he had preserved, was perhaps the groundwork of an esteem which soon increased into the most affectionate love.
The ship had been inspected several times by the commander of the port and the civil authorities, and its fame as a model hospital had spread over all Flanders. Some attempt had been made to place with the Americans the most important of the wounded officers of high rank or those of social prominence and wealth but Mr. Merrick and his aids were determined to show no partiality.
But as the northern gentlemen were the first breeders of racing Horses, so it is very probably they were also the first subscribers to his book, and then we shall find his partiality might arise, either from his gratitude to these gentlemen, or from its being the place of his nativity, or perhaps from both.
Sometimes he was tempted to think that his own merits had, even during the short intervals when they had seen each other, secured such a hold of the affections of a young person who had probably been bred up in ignorance of the world and its forms that she was unable to conceal her partiality.
The persons whom I have described, and who alone made that sojourn memorable, must be my apology. One day I was honoured by a visit from the Abbe Dubois. After a short conversation upon indifferent things, he accosted me thus: "You are aware, Count Devereux, of the partiality which the Regent has conceived towards you.
They who acted and suffered in the cause acted and suffered for the miracles: for there was no anterior persuasion to induce them, no prior reverence, prejudice, or partiality to take hold of Jesus had not one follower when he set up his claim. His miracles gave birth to his sect. No part of this description belongs to the ordinary evidence of Heathen or Popish miracles.
The English were not aware that, while they were murmuring at their Sovereign's partiality for the land of his birth, a strong party in Holland was murmuring at his partiality for the land of his adoption.
"Dorothy, don't be a fool." "I must say it. I don't suppose Mr. Gibson thinks of me the least in the world." "Psha! I tell you he does." "But as for mamma and Priscilla, I never could like anybody for a moment who would be ashamed of them." She was most anxious to declare that, as far as she knew herself and her own wishes at present, she entertained no partiality for Mr.
"What's that?" said Miss Crawley, interrupted in her after-dinner doze by the stoppage of the music. "It's a false note," Miss Sharp said with a laugh; and Rawdon Crawley fumed with rage and mortification. Seeing the evident partiality of Miss Crawley for the new governess, how good it was of Mrs.
Were he tempted to expand in praises, it would be set down to partiality, while he was hardly free to censure. No wonder he wrote of his performance: "Forster will think it too lukewarm; others the reverse." As it happened, the amiable Forster was enchanted. "For upwards of three-and-thirty years," says Mr.
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