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The world had been tolerant; his fellow-men at least those who knew the real Isaac loyally appreciative. The knowledge of his honours and fame stirred him to his soul. Not that he was any better, or abler, he meditated, than other men, but that when "opportunity" offered he was permitted to grasp it. "For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake and rise to fight and win."
But in their preaching they laid the whole stress, well-nigh, of their efforts upon morals, to the neglect of doctrine; and in their theology, they attributed to human reason a strength and authority which gradually opened the way to the invasion of the gravest heresies. Of generally purer character than their opponents, they were also abler preachers.
Though the President was an abler politician than Adams had been in the former struggle, he was hardly able to parry the blows of Clay and his Eastern allies, especially after the elections of 1838, when both houses of Congress were lost to the Administration. Calhoun, Benton, and Silas Wright made a strong fight on behalf of the Democrats.
Cities were built, fortresses erected, the enemies of Russia defeated; Siberia was brought under firm control, and the whole nation made to see that it had never been ruled by abler hands. Boris in all this was strongly paving his way to the throne. In 1598 the weak Feodor died. He left no sons, and with him, its fifty-second sovereign, the dynasty of Rurik the Varangian came to an end.
In the National Assembly he had no opportunity of displaying the full extent either of his talents or of his vices. He was indeed eclipsed by much abler men. He went, as was his habit, with the stream, spoke occasionally with some success, and edited a journal called the Point du Jour, in which the debates of the Assembly were reported. He at first ranked by no means among the violent reformers.
Why not? At home, at school, among acquaintances, she had been used to have her conscious superiority admitted; and she had moved in a society where everything, from low arithmetic to high art, is of the amateur kind, politely supposed to fall short of perfection only because gentlemen and ladies are not obliged to do more than they like otherwise they would probably give forth abler writings, and show themselves more commanding artists than any the world is at present obliged to put up with.
His friend is his friend still, entirely heart-whole. That malady is never fatal to a sound organ. And George goes through his part of godpapa perfectly, and lives alone. If Mr. Pen's works have procured him more reputation than has been acquired by his abler friend, whom no one knows, George lives contented without the fame.
They have selected a field of battle on which I am an abler general than they that of a conference. No, we shall beat them by merely temporizing. They want food already. They will be ten times worse off in a week." "Ah, yes! Good heavens! I know it will end in that way; but it is not they who taunt me with the most wounding reproaches, but "
"But," again interposed the Spanish Minister, "if these gentlemen do go anywhere, I have offered to accompany them, and my services have been accepted. Both of us are needless." "Of course, your Excellency," replied poor old C , "I yield; for you are, by your rank, abler than I am to secure for them that attention which, as strangers, they merit."
A man of more wisdom than wittiness, and brain than fancy; and abler to any thing than to make verses. You shall hear him confute his commenders, and giving reasons how much they are mistaken, and is angry almost if they do not believe him.
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