5 Metaphors for promotion

But he will enjoy all the pleasure that novelty can afford, when he becomes acquainted with the Chinese government and constitution; he will be amazed to find that there is a country where nobility and knowledge are the same, where men advance in rank as they advance in learning, and promotion is the effect of virtuous industry; where no man thinks ignorance a mark of greatness, or laziness the privilege of high birth.

"It declares that the promotion of human improvement and happiness is the highest duty, and that morality is to be tested by utility.

The rapid promotion acquired in the French army is likewise another cause of its adherence to the government.

But the section under which mere promotion of disaffection is a crime.

I mean by that that promotion is a lottery from which they begin by withdrawing all the big numbers to distribute them to Monsieur Cretinard whose papa is a millionaire, to Monsieur Tartuffe whose papa is a Jesuit, or to a Marquis de Carabas whose mamma has the good graces of my Lord the Bishop, and they make the poor devils draw from the rest.

5 Metaphors for  promotion