While no literary excellence is claimed for the narrative, it has the greater merit of being truthful, and is verified in such a manner that no one can doubt its veracity.

" The company agreed that this last illustration was of superior excellence, or, in the phrase used by them, "Fust-rate."

It contains salt, which keeps the sea from putrefaction: salt, which is made the image of intellectual excellence, contributes to the formation of a pudding.'

He drew his observations chiefly from those he conversed with, and has seldom given any additional heightening, or indelible marks to his characters; which was the peculiar excellence of Shakespear, Johnson, and Congreve.

The truly immortal books are most valued for their artistic excellences.

We have appended these two songs because of their rare excellence.

Even at the very early age at which I read with him the Memorabilia of Xenophon, I imbibed from that work and from his comments a deep respect for the character of Socrates; who stood in my mind as a model of ideal excellence: and I well remember how my father at that time impressed upon me the lesson of the "Choice of Hercules."

His literary criticisms note subtleties of style, delicate shadings in expression, and many technical excellences and errors that Carlyle would have passed over unheeded.

In the Exchange, about the courts, among the "banks," there was lively talking concerning its intrinsic excellence and extrinsic chances.

It has most the continuous power of interesting you all along, like a rapid original, of any, and in the uncommon excellence of the more finished parts goes beyond Fairfax or any of 'em.

From this ode is struck out a digression on the nature of odes, and the comparative excellence of the ancients and moderns.

Beauty was adored in Greece, and every means were used to perfect it, especially beauty of form, which is the characteristic excellence of Grecian statuary.

A liking for the stage, or a lively sense of poetic excellence, was not among the preferences of King William.

They left behind them their magazines and heavy artillery, among which were seven pieces of remarkable excellence, called "the seven electors."

I then read Ogden's second and ninth Sermons on Prayer, which, with their other distinguished excellence, have the merit of being short.

Indeed, the whole account of the customs and usages of the interior of the seraglio, as described in Don Juan, can only be regarded as inventions; and though the descriptions abound in picturesque beauty, they have not that air of truth and fact about them which render the pictures of Byron so generally valuable, independent of their poetical excellence.

In expansive moments he, who made nothing of his undoubted excellence in his own profession, was wont to boast that you couldn't teach him much about motors!

This work is entitled, we think, to rank with the best grammars of the Greek language that have appeared in German or English, in all the points that constitute grammatical excellence; while its monographic character justified and required an exhaustive treatment of its particular topic, not to be found even in the huge grammars of Matthiæ and Kühner.

[But not even this caused him to suffer any harm at the hands of any one else; it was a self-sought death that he suffered, and the fact seems strange, inasmuch as he had been honored among the foremost men by Marcus and in mental excellence and forensic eloquence stood second to none of his contemporaries.

He had forgotten all about the room, and when the knives came, in even less than the promised jiffy, he forgot everything but the varied excellences of the food before him.

Like most of his own sex who have associated freely with the worst part of the other, his opinions of female excellences were by no means extravagant or romantic.

It is quite true that genuine moral excellence is really innate; but the meaning of the Christian doctrine is expressed in another and more rational way by the theory of metempsychosis, common to Brahmans and Buddhists.

Not that the latter are inferior to the former in beauty, or are without images and lineaments of graphic distinctness, but they want that air of reality which constitutes the singular excellence of his scenes drawn from nature; and there is a vagueness in them which has the effect of making them obscure, and even fantastical.

But, in thy opinion, I suffer for that simplicity in my contrivances, which is their principal excellence.

It is popularly ascribed to the over-cultivation of the race, as plants and animals highly civilisedthat is, greatly modified and bred to an artificial excellence by human agencyare certainly delicate, unprolific, and especially difficult to rear.