Do we say personal or personable

personal 11764 occurrences

The accompanying plans were made by a firm who have had not only experience in this kind of domestic building, but who have sympathy with and personal knowledge of similar conditions in widely separated parts of the country.

It must be acknowledged, however, that comfort and discomfort are so largely matters of habit and personal point of view that education as to ideals is an important duty of society in its own defence.

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on *persistir* persist *persona* f. person *personaje* m. personage, character *personal* personal *persuadir* persuade *pertenecer* belong *Perú* m. Peru (country rich in mines)

I mention this incident as an evidence of what diversified materials an army is composed, and that the instruments of military despotism are not necessarily endowed with personal courage, the discipline of the mass compensating for individual imperfection.

He adds, respecting their personal bearing towards others,"The demeanor of these gentlemen is very fine and unexceptionable.

"The members of the Chapel, almost without exception, are in their best years, glowing with health, men of culture and fine personal appearance.

What personal means of controlling the public the minister has at his command!

Other speakers must have some magnetism of personal power or public reputation to attract men; but the minister can dispense with that; to him men answer before he calls, and even when they are not sent by others are drawn by him.

Looked at collectively, the changes of old age appear as a series of personal insults and indignities, terminating at last in death, which Sir Thomas Browne has called "the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Approving of his general doctrines, and grateful for his records of personal experience, I cannot refuse to add my own experimental confirmation of his eulogy of one particular form of active exercise and amusement, namely, boating.

I have never read them my sermon yet, and I don't know that I shall, as some of them might take my convictions as a personal indignity to themselves.

The stories of these developments, in both the personal and executive sides, embody the true romance of the modern business world.

But these documents bear on their face a direct aim at personal, domestic, ecclesiastical, and civil reformation.

In the second head of doctrine, viz., That it is the duty of a people who have broken covenant with God, to engage themselves again to him by renovation of their covenant; after proving the proposition by several heads of arguments deduced1st, From the lawfulness of entering into covenant with God, whether personal, as Jacob, Gen. xxviii.

" 2. Reviving and advancement in reformation, being the ordinary consequent and effect of upright covenanting with the Lord, may be another motive and inducement thereunto; this appears both in personal and national covenantingIn personal, Psal. cxix.

" 2. Reviving and advancement in reformation, being the ordinary consequent and effect of upright covenanting with the Lord, may be another motive and inducement thereunto; this appears both in personal and national covenantingIn personal, Psal. cxix.

cognizance;but if the sin be public and national, or only personal, but publickly acted, so as the same has been stumbling, scandalous, and offensive to others; then it is requisite, for the glory of God and good of offended brethren, that the acknowledgment be equally public as the offence.

Neither have we been careful to preserve the discipline, church censures being laid aside, and not impartially exercised against scandals, personal and public.

We have been far from amending our lives and promoting a personal reformation, and going before one another in the example of a real reformation, when we have been examples of deformation in our personal practices and public transactions, and being too-familiar and too far united with the patrons and patterns of the land's deformations.

We have been far from amending our lives and promoting a personal reformation, and going before one another in the example of a real reformation, when we have been examples of deformation in our personal practices and public transactions, and being too-familiar and too far united with the patrons and patterns of the land's deformations.

Our rational and social nature fits us both for personal and federal responsibility.

Again, when we renew our covenant, we do not mean that the obligation has ceased, or that we can increase its obligation, for this is infinite and permanent; we intend by our personal act to deepen and render more durable our sense of preexisting obligation.

Dead to the law as a covenant of works, we cheerfully receive it from Christ's hand as our perfect rule of life, to direct our personal and social conduct.

In the edition of 1842 the following footnote is given by Wordsworth, "This biographical Sonnet, if so it may be called, together with the Epistle that follows, have been long suppressed from feelings of personal delicacy.

personable 27 occurrences

But they can't say I am too young now," and with that easy skill which is one of the secrets of youth, he managed to contemplate himself, serenely conscious that he was personable and "right.

Still, it was a tolerably personable figure that suffered Lanyard's critical inspection.

For he was not only a personable person in those days, with a suggestion of devil-may-care in his air that measurably lifted the curse of his superficial foppishness, but he was putting a spoke in Prince Victor's wheel.

" "Oh," said Sofia with a good show of indifferenceshe was so tired"that!" "Believe me, little Sofia"Victor put out a hand to hers, and held her eyes with a compelling gaze"boy-and-girl romance is all very well, but there is a greater destiny reserved for you than marriage to a hired secretary, however amiable, personable, and well-meaning.

But that so personable a man as Endymion Westcote would let the family perish was monstrous to suppose.

" CHAPTER X Andrew Slate, a very personable man in his spring clothes of grey tweed, took up his hat and prepared to depart.

Indeed, all old gentlemen are prone to choose the most personable and virile young man they can find for themselves to have been like.

Adj. beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive &c (inviting) 615; delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny

"You must wait awhile for Florence," I continued; "she is four years old, and twelve years hence you will yet be quite a personable individual.

I caught a peep at another soldier, who was flirting with a personable Flemish scullery maid behind the protection of the kitchen wall.

And how do they suppose so popular and personable man as Taradine could come back to England under an assumed name without a number of highly inconvenient questions being asked?

And his eyessurely you noted his eyes, Betty?" "Yes," replied Betty, blushing with remembrance of the parting glance the hazel eyes had bestowed upon her; "he is a personable fellow enough.

She describes him as a fine personable youth, and I think it maybe Oliver's friend, young Otis, who in expected at the Tracys' on a visit from Boston.

I think I have heard something of a handsome young lawyer from Branford" "Fie!" cried Sally, in her turn averting her face quickly, but not before Betty had perceived her heightened color, "I have but met him three times, and there are plenty of other personable men as well as he, for while one stops with Dolly the officers from Fort Trumbull are ever coming and going, you know.

She was not a woman of lofty ideals; with her a man was a man "For a' that an' a' that;" and, aside from the accident of color, uncle Wellington was as personable a man as any of her acquaintance.

He kiss'd no hand, he bent no knee, Nor measur'd steps of one, two, three, But made a careless, slouching bow, And said, "Your highness will allow, That I am personable, tall, A rather handsome face withal, And fit to serve as volunteer, At least as any present here!

I remember a well-dressed personable man, of what, after the fashion of the nomenclature in the Chamber of Deputies, might be called the young middle-age.

Indeed, it had been said, that, when, just after the declaration of peace, he walked through the town in the commemorative procession side by side with General Washington, the minister, in the majesty of his gown, bands, cocked hat, and full flowing wig, was thought by many to be the more majestic and personable figure of the two.

Perhaps it is from some general notion of their impropriety, that several words of this doubtful character have already become obsolete, or are gradually falling into disuse: as, accustomable, chanceable, concordable, conusable, customable, behoovable, leisurable, medicinable, personable, powerable, razorable, shapable, semblable, vengeable, veritable.

Don't ye be in a hurry; ye're personable enough in yer way, and there's as good fish in the seas as ever come out of 'em.

Monica's young man is the son of a yeoman farmer, personable, certainly, on horseback and of a blood older than the Sampfords', but an essential resilient, and altogether impossible when playing the concertina or after mixing his drinks (or both).

The major, a tall, personable man, stood up in the cart.

The King is a personable man; but, my dear sister, he has a certain countenance, which you and I have often remarked: a red face and white eyebrows.

Still he said it was possible that the Coquette might yet be ordered for service among the islands!" It has been said, that Oloff Van Staats was a fair personable young man of vast stature, and with much of the air of a gentleman of his country; for, though a British subject, he was rather a Hollander in feelings, habits, and opinions.

He was a personable youth enough.

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