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Besides, by the favours of the king, Macbeth stood high in the opinion of all sorts of men, and how would those honours be stained by the reputation of so foul a murder! In these conflicts of the mind lady Macbeth found her husband inclining to the better part, and resolving to proceed no further.
In all my career I was never less entitled to a good reputation than in those June days; yet the disastrous gambling follies, yes, and worse, I then committed, formed the secure foundation of my reputation for conservatism and square dealing. From that time dates the decline of the habit the newspapers had of speaking of me as "Black Matt" or "Matt" Blacklock.
I may here add that the coffee of Mysore has always had a high reputation. This high quality has been partly attributed to soil and climate and partly to the coffee being slowly ripened under shade.
The reputation of an honest inn like that of the Beau Paon was concerned in not allowing its visitors to be robbed.
"Well, she's good enough in her way, though rather eccentric. I understand she furnishes good board, however. She has kept the house for many years." "Has she many boarders?" "Eight or ten. She used to have more. But they were rather a lively set and hurt the reputation of the place." Mr. Harrison paid for the soda, and a second later we quitted the place.
I hope they had time to get around in that other direction and close in. That was what he sent the chauffeur back to see about, to make sure that they were placed by the man who is the trainer of the pack." "What kind of dogs are they?" "Some Airedales, but mostly Belgian sheep dogs. There is one in the pack, Cherry, who has a wonderful reputation.
Such intrepid virtue, which had escaped pure and unsullied from the intrigues courts, the habits of business, and the arts of his profession, reflects more lustre on the memory of Papinian, than all his great employments, his numerous writings, and the superior reputation as a lawyer, which he has preserved through every age of the Roman jurisprudence.
H. O. Merwin has very truly said: Part of Burr's reputation for profligacy was due, no doubt, to that vanity respecting women of which Davis himself speaks. He never refused to accept the parentage of a child. "Why do you allow this woman to saddle you with her child when you KNOW you are not the father of it?" said a friend to him a few months before his death.
His reputation, in fact, will depend upon the extent to which he has been able to help others, as well as upon the number of people whom he has thus aided. In a very high sense, the true librarian is an educator; his school is as large as the town in which his library is situated.
He gained great fame and reputation by it, so that already, in the opinion of the world, not only did he greatly surpass all others of the time and of the times before, but also he challenged the ancients themselves.
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