Do we say praise or prase

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Rather, it pleased; what word of praise had she heard during these latter days?

CHAPTER V. 'Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.' PSA.

A murmur of praise went round the group, as she put aside the instrument.

If laudari à laudato viro be praise which is highly estimable, I should not forgive myself were I to omit the following sepulchral verses on the authour of THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY, written by the Right Honourable Henry Flood: 'No need of Latin or of Greek to grace Our JOHNSON'S memory, or inscribe his grave; His native language claims this mournful space, To pay the Immortality he gave.

He loved praise, when it was brought to him; but was too proud to seek for it.

213:'The wits must praise her bad poetry if they frequented her house.

See ante, p. 263, for the just praise bestowed by Johnson on physicians in his Life of Garth.

When Miss More was introduced to him, she began singing his praise in the warmest manner.

For some time he heard her with that quietness which a long use of praise has given him: she then redoubled her strokes, till at length he turned suddenly to her, with a stern and angry countenance, and said, "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

They praise me for the aqueducts I built, and for the peace I left along the border.

I came because my father tells me you are a Roman beyond praise.

I believe praise is worthless unless proven to the hiltas for instance: I have come to bare my thoughts to you, which is a bold compliment in these days of treachery.

A more dishonest man would let it rule itself and claim the credit, whereas you would give the praise to others, who would shoulder off the work and all the blame on to you.

The second observation that I shall make on this postscript is, that it does not deny the fact asserted, though I must acknowledge from the praise it bestows on Mrs. Montague's book, it may have been designed to convey that meaning.

[1091] 'At Edinburgh,' he wrote, 'I passed some days with men of learning, whose names want no advancement from my commemoration, or with women of elegance, which, perhaps, disclaims a pedant's praise.' Johnson's Works, ix.

I know not which most to applaudthat good sense and liberality of mind, which could see and admit the defects of his native country, to which no man is a more zealous friend:or that candour, which induced him to give just praise to the minister whom he honestly and strenuously opposed.

Then the royal pontiff arose from the brazen scaffold on which he had seated himself, and amid clouds of incense and the smoke of burning sacrifice offered unto God the tribute of national praise, and implored His divine protection.

"Oft did the shepheards which my hap did heare, And oft their lasses, which my luck envyde, Daylie resort to me from farre and neare, To see my Lyonesse, whose praises wyde Were spred abroad; and when her worthinesse 145 Much greater than the rude report they tryde*, They her did praise, and my good fortune blesse.

Whether or not we agree with his conclusions, we must all admire the spirit of the man, which is above praise or criticism.

Praise of Folly Prelude, The Pre-Raphaelites (rä'f[=a]-el-ites) Pride and Prejudice Princess, The Prometheus Unbound (pr[=o]-m[=e]'th[=u]s) Prose development in eighteenth century Pseudo-classicism (s[=u]'d[=o]) Purchas, Samuel;

Canton is coming round to tranquillity as fast as we ever had any right to expect; but the absurd thing is that these funny people at Hong-Kong are beginning to praise me!

His importance was perpetually forced upon his notice by the praise of his dependants, by the foreign envoys who paid court to him, and by the royalists who craved his protection.

At length he yielded; but it was not till he had acquired by his resistance the praise of moderation, and the right of attributing his acquiescence to the importunity of others instead of his own ambition.

Strictly speaking, he deserved no great amount of praise for dragging us out of danger, as he frankly admitted that he was waiting for a good chance to attack the person who resembled Soma, without having any particular worry whether the stone slab would descend before the opportunity arrived.

p. 137): When in the daily service of our Church we repeat these words of the sublime hymn ("The noble army of martyrs praise Thee!"), I wonder sometimes whether it be with a full appreciation of their meaning? whether we do really reflect on all that this noble army of martyrs has conquered for us?

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But we are told generally, in Phillips's Mineralogy, that "the large emeralds spoken of by various writers, such as that in the Abbey of Richenau, of the weight of 28 lbs., and which formerly belonged to Charlemagne, are believed to be either green fluor, or prase.

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