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He was himself preëminently a doer of deeds, and not a critic or a phrase-maker, and we can read very distinctly in the extracts which have been brought together in this chapter what he thought on party and public questions. He was opposed to the party which had resisted all the great measures of his administration from the foundation of the government of the United States.
His work is preeminently the disinterested and thankless task of the apostle and pioneer. For the rest, Herr Kraft, though his faith is active, zealous and infectious, has nothing in common with the visionaries or illuminati.
The thing that attracted my attention more than anything else about him was his pockets. He had dozens of them and they were always full of bread crusts, scraps of meat and cooking utensils, for like a snail he carried his domicile on his back. He was preëminently a citizen of the world. He had not lived in a house in half a century. A haystack in summer and a pigsty in winter sufficed him.
That which was, after all, the most remarkable characteristic of these wars might be guessed from this fact about the fashions. The Fronde was preëminently "the War of the Ladies." Educated far beyond the Englishwomen of their time, they took a controlling share, sometimes ignoble, as often noble, always powerful, in the affairs of the time.
The third method of nation-making may be called the Teutonic or preeminently the English method. It differs from the Oriental and Roman methods which we have been considering in a feature of most profound significance; it contains the principle of representation.
Sabre's house was of grey stone and it presented over the doorway the date 1667. "Nearly two hundred and fifty years," Mabel had once said. "And I bet," Sabre had replied, "it's never been better kept or run than you run it now, Mabel." The tribute was well deserved. Mabel, who was in many ways a model woman, was preëminently a model housewife.
Amongst the utterances of this man was one command not a new nor perfect one which has seemed to his adorers so preeminently wise that they have given it a name by which it is known over half the world.
One thing has been preeminently forced in upon me during this brief examination of our London Arabs namely, that individuals work better than communities amongst these people. The work done by the great establishments, whether of England, Rome, or Protestant Dissent, is insignificant compared with that carried out by persons labouring like Mr.
He rose with unabated cheerfulness and offered to continue the combat; but Skene declined any further exercise just then, and, much pleased with his novice's game, promised to give him a scientific education and make a man of him. The champion now sent for his wife, whom he revered as a preeminently sensible and well-mannered woman.
It may not have appeared to be a novel or perhaps brilliant conception, but it has turned out to be preeminently sound. It has not failed to work. It has surely brought results.
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