The readiness with which they have submitted to the rigorous measures necessary for the elimination of leprosy is a lasting honour to them.

This would have been true; yet his readiness to decide and to condemn where he himself is concerned, shews that passion is not dead in him, nor subject to the controul of reason; but that self-love is the main-spring that moves it, though on all beyond that limit he looks with the most perfect calmness and philosophic indifference.

Genius can in no sense be applied to Hook, though readiness was his chief charm.

Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that any one can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.

Their readiness is the product of the same fiery individualism as the readiness of the old fighting oligarchs.

In fact readiness to receive according to the Anglican rites became the test of a loyal subject.

Is it not so, Roderigo?" "There is more cleverness in thee, Master Stefano, than I had thought; though thy readiness with the felucca is no secret.