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But to complete the view of his intellectual character, a survey of Sulla's legislation is necessary. Sulla was an educated man: he was not a mere soldier like Marius; he was not only a general; he was a man of letters, a lover of the arts, a keen discriminator of men and times, a legislator, and a statesman. He remodelled and reformed the whole criminal law of the Romans.
Molly frankly confessed what had made her smile, since her cousin wanted to know, and of course in her confession praise of the gravy had to be included. "Brava, brava," and the Marquis d'Ochtè clapped his hands. "She is like my Sara in all ways. She is also a discriminator in foods. This gravy, my dear Mademoiselle, is the chef d'oeuvre of my chef. You notice the butler, Jules, has left the room.
Homer so nice a discriminator that he dwells upon the barbarous tongue even of the Carians never seems to intimate any distinction between the language and race of the Pelasgi and Hellenes, yet he wrote in an age when the struggle was still unconcluded, and when traces of any marked difference must have been sufficiently obvious to detect sufficiently interesting to notice. Strabo, viii.
A fellow is certain to fight with his brothers and sisters, his father, and perhaps even his mother. Tenfold thus with his wife; but whoever did fight with his uncle? Of course I mean unless he was his heir. And the tenderness of this relation has not escaped vox populi, that keen discriminator.
He has all the dramatic talent which Scott has, and all the passion which Scott has not, and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are very fine things in his 'Denounced. We subscribe to the best library here, but the best is not a good one. I have, however, a table-load of my own books, and with them I can always be satisfied. Do you know that Mr.
Salutations to thee that art of three eyes, that art the lord of Amvika, that art Manifest, and that art Unmanifest. Salutations to thee that art Desire, that art the Giver of all desires, that art the Killer of all desires, and that art the discriminator between the gratified and the ungratified. Salutations to thee that art all things, the Giver of all things, and the Destroyer of all things.
Let me press upon you, in conclusion, some few of the many advantages to be derived from the habit of distinguishing synonyms. Among Church writers Augustine is a frequent and successful discriminator of words. But the advantages of attending to synonyms need not be taken on trust; they are evident. Rem.
Then I had never seen a yucca, much less a tree of the kind we were gazing at; of course I could only guess at what they might be. Ben thought they were palms; but Ben was wrong again, for he was no great discriminator of genus or species. His opinion was based upon the general aspect which the trees that is, the smaller ones presented.
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