Class struggles at home, in their acutest form, are like the competition of nationalism abroad: explosions of cupidity, masked by the pretext of the country's greatness.

We have seen the act of observation and that of reflection alike swift in Juliaonce her subject was within rangeand she had now, with all her perceptions at the acutest, taken in, by a single stare, the strange presence to a happy connection with which Mr. Pitman aspired and which had thus sailed, with placid majesty, into their troubled waters.

Voltaire, the acutest French mind of his age, remarked on this when he visited England in 1726.

In the Pioneers, Leatherstocking; is first introduceda philosopher of the woods, ignorant of books, but instructed in all that nature, without the aid of, science, could reveal to the man of quick senses and inquiring intellect, whose life has been passed under the open sky, and in companionship with a race whose animal perceptions are the acutest and most cultivated of which there is any example.

" Such is the verdict of one of the acutest and most dispassionate men that ever lived.

On the first-floor landing, where indeed the danger was acutest, they were trapped by two of the Watchetts.

Like the great Mr. Barry Lyndon (the acutest sketch of human nature dear Thackeray ever made), he cannot understand why the world is so unjust and foolish as to have taken a prejudice against him.

It was a wise and just measure; and if its success has not entirely answered the expectations of the minister who granted it, its comparative failure has been owing to circumstances which the acutest judgment could not have foreseen.

'The most powerful, acutest, and holiest mind,' says a learned divine, 'will eternally be unable fully to find out God, or perfectly to comprehend Him.'

The keenest observer, the acutest judge of his kind, could never have detected that one of these men was meditating bloodshed, the other prompting him to something very like murder as an accessory before the fact.

Four volumes of 'Essays' contain some of his acutest writings on the subject.

Sufferings inconceivable and innumerableunmingled wretchedness from the ties of nature rudely broken and destroyed, the acutest bodily tortures, groans, tears and bloodlying forever in weariness and painfulness, in watchings, in hunger and in thirst, in cold and nakedness.

Sufferings inconceivable and innumerableunmingled wretchedness from the ties of nature rudely broken and destroyed, the acutest bodily tortures, groans, tears and bloodlying forever in weariness and painfulness, in watchings, in hunger and in thirst, in cold and nakedness.

Mr. Falkland, on the contrary, was a man of the acutest sensibility; hence arose his pleasures and his pains, his virtues and his vices.

Had Spenser not published this explanation, it is impossible that anybody, even the acutest minded German professor, could have guessed.

"I am not a heathen, I'd thank you to rememberand when I'm a wife I shall be my husband's only wife" He winced in acutest pain.

It is far more reasonable to think, with a later author, that, "Adam had an insight into natural things far beyond the acutest philosopher, as may be gathered from his giving of names to all creatures, according to their different constitutions.

Sacrifice is not only not a pain, but the deepest and acutest pleasure possible.

The batteries, it was known, were manned; and although it would have puzzled the acutest mind of Elba to give a reason why the French should risk so unprofitable an attack as one on their principal port, long ere Raoul was seen among them such a result was not only dreaded, but in a measure anticipated with confidence.

IV.The Horrors of Dreamland I now pass to what is the main subject of these latter confessions, to the history of what took place in my dreams, for these were the immediate and proximate cause of my acutest suffering.

While he could solve, in fancy, problems that had baffled the acutest investigators, what matter if his tie-pin got mislaid?

He placed his hand on his brow, now pale with the acutest anguish.

They had almost reached the entrance gate of Culvercoombe before he reduced the affronted horse to a trot, and Doctor Glasson, who had been clutching the rail of the dog-cart in acutest physical terror, had no nerve as yet to resume the conversation.

Even by those least willing to accept popular idols, Béranger will always be ranked as one of the subtilest wits of the French school, and as something more than this,as one of the acutest servants of free human thought.

Civilization robs us of many of our acutest pleasures.