13 Metaphors for eminent

Eminent among the student body for maturity of thought and depth of Christian purpose is Shelomith Vincent.

Great were the capitals of Greece and Asia, but how pre-eminent was Rome, since all were subordinate to her!

They were paid teachers, and sought pupils from the sons of the rich,the more eminent of them being Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias, and Prodicus; men who travelled from city to city, exciting great admiration for their rhetorical skill, and really improving the public speaking of popular orators.

" Not eminent, perhaps, has been the realization of this augury.

"Confucius taught three thousand disciples, of whom the more eminent became influential authors.

So great and so successful were his labors among the native heathen, and so eminent were his piety and his self-denying charity, that he has been well named the 'Prince of Missionaries' and 'the Great Apostle of the Indians.'

Great were the capitals of Greece and Asia, but how pre-eminent was Rome, since all were subordinate to her!

"The most eminent of the kennel are bloodhounds, which lead the van, and are as follow.

It is worthy of remark, that the present eminent and estimable Dr. Gooch, Librarian to His Majesty, and Dr. Abel, should both have been pupils of Mr. Borrett, Surgeon, of Yarmouth.

The most eminent among the followers of Reid was Dugald Stewart (professor in Edinburgh; Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1792-1827; Collected Works, edited by Hamilton, 1854-58), who developed the doctrines of the master and in some points modified them.

But there was a younger class of an opposite school who now came forward, and the more eminent of these were also frequent visitors to the old queen of society,Ampère, Thiers, Mignet, Guizot, De Tocqueville, Sainte-Beuve.

And pre-eminent among these was Swift.

Eminent, respectable, and rich must be the qualification of any candidate who sought its suffragesthe last, at all events, being indispensable.

13 Metaphors for  eminent