4482 examples of talents in sentences

A fox stept forth before the rest, And thus the servile throng address'd. 'How vast his talents, born to rule, And trained in virtue's honest school: 20 What clemency his temper sways!

50 Boldly to everything attend, And men your talents shall commend.

Know'st thou the loadstone's power and art, That virtue virtues can impart? Of all his talents I partake, Who then can such a friend forsake?

I wished the council to see more of my African productions and manufactures, that they might really know what Africa was capable of affording, instead of the Slave Trade; and that they might make a proper estimate of the genius and talents of the natives.

There would be a day of retribution, wherein we should have to give an account of all those talents, faculties, and opportunities with which we have been intrusted.

He regretted his inability to do justice to such a cause; but if, in having attempted to forward it, he had shown the weakness of his powers, he must console himself with the consideration, that he felt more solid comfort in having acted up to sound public principles, than he could have done from the exercise of the most splendid talents, against the conviction of his conscience.

Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush, the days of servitude without loyalty and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.

We regret that a body to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles the First, or the easy good-breeding for which the court of Charles the Second was celebrated.

Other admirable works by Guido, Rubens, Bassan, Ruysdael, Vanderneer, and Canaletta, have met with a host of imitators, from whose talents we may anticipate, at no distant period, pictorial excellency of the first order.

The causes are, his high character for probity, honour, and talents; his fine countenance; the benevolent interest he took in the concerns of all his friends; his simple and gentlemanlike manners; his untimely death.'

To this undertaking Sydney Smith devoted his talents for more than twenty-eight years.

But Churchill's talents for a time kept him from utter destitution.

After all, amusing as personalities must always be, neither the humours of Foote, the vigorous satire of Churchill, nor the careful limning of Cumberland, whilst they cannot be ranked among talents of the highest order, imply a sort of social treachery.

I will give thee a thousand talents of gold, and two boles besides, which I took from Cleocritus, worth a hundred talents apiece."

I will give thee a thousand talents of gold, and two boles besides, which I took from Cleocritus, worth a hundred talents apiece."

Dear PayneI have no mornings (my day begins at 5 P.M.) to transact business in, or talents for it, so I employ Mary, who has seen Robertson, who says that the Piece which is to be Operafied was sent to you six weeks since by a Mr. Hunter, whose journey has been delayed, but he supposes you have it by this time.

It seems that he felt some delicacy at first in accepting this munificent testimony which his own people offered to his talents."

splay of his own talents and the gallantry of those under his command.

Savage belonged to the very common type of men, who seem to employ their whole talents to throw away their chances in life, and to disgust every one who offers them a helping hand.

Neefe was, if not a man of genius, of very respectable talents, a learned and accomplished organist and composer, as a violinist respectable, even in a corps which included Reicha, Romberg, Ries.

The writer closes his list of musicians and singers thus: "Louis van Beethoven, son of the above-named tenorist, a boy of eleven years, and of most promising talents.

His talents are known and appreciated everywhere in Bonn.

The promising pupil of Neefe was soon brought to his notice, and his talents and attainments excited in him an extraordinary interest.

distant!to analyze his talents and count up his merits and defects.

Here we see the combination of the man of science and the man of business, each contributing needed talents for the establishment of a great invention on a working basis.

4482 examples of  talents  in sentences