Heaven may now excel me by creating a larger number of living figures than I, but pre-eminence in this matter is not a question of arithmetic" "Ah, yes, my squinting boy has all the virtues, including that of modesty!"

Johnson's pre-eminence is the pre-eminence of character.

"] [Footnote 130: In his stimulating book, Comment la route crée le type Social, Edmond Desmolins submits an ingenious hypothesis to explain the pre-eminence of the Gauls in the growing and making of pork, and how that pre-eminence was itself the explanation of their early success in cultivating the cereals.

The jutting eminence, however, may have been a crag, amongst the Colthouse heights, to the north-east of Hawkshead.Ed.]

He had not yet experienced the disadvantages attendant on such society, or learned how soon literary eminence becomes the object of detraction, of envy, of injury, even from those who can best feel its merit, if they are discouraged by dissipated habits from emulating its flight, or hardened by perverted feeling against loving its possessors.

The Spy begins with a low Voice, Such an one, the Advocate, whispered to one of his Friends, within my Hearing, that your Eminence was a very great Poultron; and after having given his Patron time to take it down, adds that another called him a Mercenary Rascal in a publick Conversation.

Johnson's pre-eminence is the pre-eminence of character.