This will be an advantage both to the country and themselves.

A still greater advantage was gained by Russia in the surrender by Turkey of everything on the left bank of the Danube,cities, fortresses, and lands, all with the view to their future annexation to Russia.

The Russian ambassador even found means to have the advantage of a private audience with the Sultan, without the knowledge of the grand vizier; but the Sultan, though courteous, remained firm.

"As regards the condition of Finland," Alexander I. had declared, "my intention has been to give this people a political existence, so that they may not feel themselves conquered by Russia, but united to her for their own clear advantage; therefore, not only their civil but their political laws have been maintained."

Each of these houses, or, as one may perhaps call them, pavilions, has a separate entrance and staircase; and the advantage of this, to one circumstanced as M. Zola was, must be obvious.

The two sitting-rooms were an advantage, particularly during the time that Mme.

A single line written by him in a moment of weakness, and all the advantage of the effort he had made would be lost, and their misery would begin again.

On this day it had chanced that she had quarreled with her brother Maxime, who, taking advantage of his privileges as an invalid, had tormented her more and more every day by his unreasonable caprices and his outbursts of ill temper.

Another advantage might be claimed for them, namely, that being in their very nature objective and external, they are attainable, and every one is presented with the possibility, at least, of coming into possession of them; whilst what is subjective is not open to us to acquire, but making its entry by a kind of divine right, it remains for life, immutable, inalienable, an inexorable doom.

It may be reckoned as a personal advantage; though it does not, properly speaking, contribute directly to our happiness.

It does so indirectly, by impressing other people; and it is no unimportant advantage, even in man.

Still this advantage is accompanied by a substantial disadvantage; for the whole of Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.]

There they fought with varying success, and as it were with equal advantage.

As a popular leader, the advantage which daring would have given him is more than counterpoised by an acuteness and refinement of mind which have no sympathy with the mass of men, and which they in turn are likely to distrust from imperfect comprehension.

Mr. Everett long ago pointed out the advantage we should gain by having a responsible ministry.

In this respect Mr. Cushing has the advantage of it, for he has been on both sides of the Slavery question also.

It must be granted, however, that his lapse into Negrophilism was but a momentary weakness, and that without it the Whig Party would have lost the advantage of his character, and the lesson of his desertion, in Congress.

Right, as inevitable; and there is a kind of change that is suspicious because it is sudden,and detrimental to the character in proportion as it is of advantage to the man; and the judgment of mankind allows a well-founded distinction between an alteration of policy compelled by events, and an abandonment of professed principles tainted with any suspicion of self-interest.

An active warfare has been kept up for years with alternate success, though generally to the advantage of the American patriots.

At others they have actually established duties and impositions operating unfavorably to the United States to the advantage of other European powers, and sometimes they have appeared to consider that they might interchange among themselves mutual concessions of exclusive favor, to which neither European powers nor the United States should be admitted.

The Carthaginians retired thence to the city Auringis, whither the Romans followed them, in order to take advantage of their terror.

In Spain also the arrival of the king's ambassadors was of the greatest advantage to the Romans, for at the news thereof the Numidians began rapidly to pass over.

And, as you are neither a Manager to sign agreements, nor a Dramatic Author to apportion rôles, nor a Journalist to write notices, nor a young man from the draper's to take advantage of a moment's caprice as opportunity offers when delivering a new frock, I don't see in the least how you are to make her favour you, and I think your tragedy queen did quite right to slam her gate in your face.

Lying back in an arm-chair and displaying his famous waistcoat to the very best advantage, he enlarged on such episodes of his life as he thought most impressive: "The fates were vanquished," he was telling Servien, "my livelihood was assured.

The Southern States possess certain staples, tobacco, rice, indigo, &c.which must be capital objects in treaties of commerce with foreign nations; and the advantage which they necessarily procure in these treaties will be felt throughout all the States.