What public-spirited merchant, think you, has contributed this part of the show?

One extract must suffice here: "Whenever we step on shore a species of plover, a plaguy sort of public-spirited individual, follows, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give warning to all animals to flee from the approaching danger.

The marks of his task were conspicuous all over him, and he scarcely looked the part of the public-spirited young Methodist.

* Two public-spirited citizens of St. Paul, John McCloud and Thompson Ritchie, purchased in the East and brought to the city at their own expense the first fire engine introduced in the Northwest.

"And most public-spirited of you, I'm sure, Captain Monk...

Several of our most public-spirited citizens seemed to father it simultaneously.

The French brought with them the regularity and neatness that characterize their home-settlements, and the abundance in which they lived enabled them to be public-spirited and to deal liberally even with the Indians.

Yet I managed to kill them; and I think I deserve praise at your hands, and not censure, for my public-spirited action.

William had many sterling virtues; he was sincere and patriotic and public-spirited; he was a stanch Protestant of the Calvinistic school, and very attentive to his religious duties.

So cleverly had the affair been worked, and so flaring were the defalcations, that had it not been for the public-spirited behaviour and generosity of two of the directors, the position of the bank would have been most seriously compromised, if not shattered altogether.

Among his acquaintance, indeed, were most of the literary, and eminent professional, and public-spirited men of the times.

He was, it is true, far from popular, was cold and severe in manners, and irritable in temperament; but he was public-spirited, patriotic, incorruptible, lofty in sentiment, and unstained by vices.

Elwin and Courthope's Pope, III, 279. CHAPTER V THE HEROINE OF "THE DUNCIAD" Mr. Pope's devious efforts to make the gratification of his personal animosities seem due to public-spirited indignation have been generally exposed.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking; and the advent of the public-spirited, contradictory, yet affectionate Felix, into Treby life had made a welcome epoch to the minister.

It happened, for example, that Lord Northcliffe was public-spirited, That was the good luck of Great Britain rather than her merit.

But without doubt they were public-spirited bodies according to their lights, maintaining schools (as at Stratford-on-Avon) hospitals and almshouses, and giving freely on all occasions of public importance.

He was a man of literary tastes and public-spirited withal, for he is said to have erected posts upon the lonely hills hereabouts to guide wayfarers to civilization.

At least one public-spirited planter advocated in 1801 the heroic measure of closing the slave trade in order to raise the price of labor and coerce the planters into saving it both by improving their apparatus and by diminishing the death rate.

The letter was a curious example of the weakness and of the bumptiousness of the man, while it gave evidence also, it is fair to say, of a real public-spirited desire that things should go right and that the nation should be saved.

Chief among these public-spirited patriots were Francis Vigo, and the priest Gibault, both of them already honorably mentioned.

They are public-spirited, but torn to pieces by factions.

Prominent on the beadroll of Australian fame stand the names of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903), founder of the Nation newspaper in Dublin, member of the British house of commons, and afterwards premier of Victoria and speaker of the legislative assembly, and his sons, John Gavan Duffy and Frank Gavan Duffy, public-spirited citizens and authorities on legal matters.

He was public-spirited, charitable, a death-fighter of courage and persistence.

We don't require that such a man should be active, public-spirited, wise.

" "You are a public-spirited woman, Cecil," said Lady Tyrrell.