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Abstaining from flattery and from bowing thy heads to others, and avoiding both good and evil, live thou in the forest by thyself, appeasing hunger by any means that comes by the way. Whether this is authoritative or that is so, when there is this conflict, how can they be said to be scriptural? I desire to hear this: how can both be regarded as authoritative?
Meekin?" said Sylvia, putting out one of her small hands, and looking straight at him. "Papa will be in directly." "His daughter more than compensates for his absence, my dear Miss Vickers." "I don't like flattery, Mr. Meekin, so don't use it. At least," she added, with a delicious frankness, that seemed born of her very brightness and beauty, "not that sort of flattery.
"What!" said Sybil, looking at her with open-mouthed interest; "you don't mean are you really tell me, quick!" "Yes!" said Victoria relapsing into composure; "I am engaged!" "To Lord Dunbeg?" Victoria nodded, and Sybil, whose nerves were strung to the highest pitch by excitement, flattery, fatigue, perplexity, and terror, burst into a paroxysm of laughter, that startled even the calm Miss Dare.
"It is even so, illustrious Frank, on a line with that snowy peak, Djara Djura, which towers above the Atlas Mountains." "Your plan, Mustapha speak, for I know you have been considering it." The courier places his hand on his chest and bows. Praise delights even the tympanum of an Arab, and flattery gains favors in the most unexpected quarter.
And of course any check just now means to us a serious financial loss both in England and America, a deficit in Vatican revenues which will very gravely incommode certain necessary measures now under the consideration of His Holiness. I expected you to grasp the man and hold him, not by intimidation but by flattery." "You think he is to be caught by so common a bait?" said Gherardi, "Bah!
A poet, not in theory only, but in practice; accustomed to intoxicate the women with melodious flattery; fond of being intimate; avowedly devoted to the sex; eloquent in his encomiums upon female charms; and affecting to select his friends only from that sex. What effect might such a character have upon your peace, even without imputing any ill intention to him?
Ricord was along, and night and day he was harping on his scheme; but he disgusted Colonel Mason with his flattery, and, on reaching Monterey, he opened what he called a law-office, but there were neither courts nor clients, so necessity forced him to turn his thoughts to something else, and quicksilver became his hobby.
The rest were summoned by letters from Pompey to come and join him; he, by the favor of the people and by flattery of their leaders, having been chosen general of the army against Mithridates and Tigranes, though the senate and the nobility all thought that Lucullus was injured, having those put over his head who succeeded rather to his triumph, than to his commission, and that he was not so truly deprived of his command, as of the glory he had deserved in his command, which he was forced to yield to another.
Fearing to be admonished for the fraud by another of his ministers, the scholar Wang Tan, the Emperor resolved to put a golden gag in his mouth. So one day, having invited him to a banquet, he overwhelmed him with flattery and made him drunk with good wine. "I would like the members of your family also to taste this wine," he added, "so I am making you a present of a cask of it."
"One alters so much what one has heard from others in repeating it, only because one has not understood it." "Whoever indulges long in monologue in the presence of others, without flattering his listeners, provokes ill-will." "Every word a man utters provokes the opposite opinion." "Argument and flattery are but poor elements out of which to form a conversation."
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