He had many fine qualities, which commanded esteem; but he was fitful, uncertain, ambitious, and warlike.

What a lesson this is to all ambitious monarchs who sacrifice the interest of their country to personal aggrandizement!

But he fell because a young, inexperienced, and ambitious sovereign,apt pupil of his own in the divine right of monarchs to govern, and yet seemingly inspired by a keen sensitiveness to his people's wants and the spirit of the age,could not endure his commanding ascendency and haughty dictation, and accepted his resignation offered in a moment of pique.

It would seem that Mr. Gladstone, occupying for forty years so superb a social and public station, has not been ambitious for the worldly advancement of his children, nor has he been stained by nepotism in pushing on their fortunes.

It would also be difficult to tell which of the two was the more ambitious and more tenacious of office.

No government was ever started on an ambitious course with louder pretensions or brighter promises than Mr. Gladstone's cabinet in 1868.

This great work, the most ambitious and famous of all Carlyle's writings, and in many respects his best, was not received by the public with the enthusiam it ought to have awakened.

It cannot be disguised that Macaulay was worldly in his turn of mind, intensely practical, and ambitious of distinction as soon as he became conscious of his great powers, although in his school-days he was very modest and retiring.

Are these congelations in consequence of the daily solution of the hoar-frost which is produced on the summit during the night?] Stay, bright inhabitant of air, alight, 260 Ambitious VISCA, from thy eagle-flight!

We pass over L'Egotiste Corrigée, par Madame de Labourtpretty enoughand the Ambitious Primrose, by Miss Dagley.

The World should sinke, and all the pompe she hugs Close in her hart, in her ambitious gripe, Ere I sustaine it, if this slendrest joynt Mou'd with the worth that worldlings love so well Had power to save it from the throate of hell.

It is well that the proud, the ambitious, the self-seeking, should suffer defeat, humiliation, and misfortune; that they should pass through the scorching fires of affliction; for only thus can the wayward soul be brought to reflect upon the enigma of life; only thus can the heart be softened and purified, and prepared to receive the Truth.

If any man (saith Lemnius) will attempt such a thing, without all those juggling circumstances, astrological elections of time, place, prodigious habits, fustian, big, sesquipedal words, spells, crosses, characters, which exorcists ordinarily use, let him follow the example of Peter and John, that without any ambitious swelling terms, cured a lame man.

The first and principal object would be to take care to prevent the government from being ambitious and bent on conquest.

The principles which Pitt had laid down as the guiding maxims for the governors; the avoidance of ambitious views of conquest, the preservation of peace, and the limitation of the aims of the government to the encouragement and extension of commerce, were not equally adhered to.

Nothing, however, came of his more ambitious "idea," and, until to-day, no one has taken in hand to write The Tragedies of the Medici.

Next, after lending to one another with a moderate profita dono di tempo or a merito"quick returns," came the ambitious system of State loans, with the regulated interesso and the speculative dealings in Cambioon 'Changewith boroccolo"unexpected gain," and ritravgola"sly advantage," or, as we say, "sharp practice.

But he was luxurious and ambitious, void of religion, and in his philosophy an epicurean.

The hard-worked authoress even achieved a new reputation on the success of her "Fortunate Foundlings" (1744), "Female Spectator" (1744-6), and her most ambitious novel, "The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless" (1751).

Ambition has been the bane of my life, Mary; and when I could no longer be ambitious for myselfwhen my own existence had become a mere death in life, I began to dream and to scheme for the aggrandisement of my granddaughter.

'I taught her to be ambitious.

In fact, in these regions we find ambitious nobles forestalling the action of the King, and in order to attach towns to themselves and their houses, suppressing the most obnoxious of the taxes, and at the same time granting legal guarantees.

There was something exquisitely refreshing in the great glasses of foaming soda that a spruce young man was drawing from a marble fountain, above which half a dozen polar bears in an ambitious print were disporting themselves.

His most ambitious work, Irene, can be read by men in whom a sense of duty has been abnormally developed.

That is a bad definition, when it either describes common things in this manner:"He is seditious who is a bad and useless citizen;" for this does not describe the character of a seditious man more than of an ambitious one,of a calumniator, than of any wicked man whatever, in short.