"How's that?" the other asked, with just the shade of superciliousness in the tone admired in the Senate for suavity.

Pericles, after the reduction of Samos, returned to Athens, where he buried those who had fallen in the war in a magnificent manner, and was much admired for the funeral oration which, as is customary, was spoken by him over the graves of his countrymen.

Shou'd we shew each her own partic'lar Dear, What they admire at home, they wou'd loath here.

This was the beginning of my acquaintance with General Custer, whom I always admired as a man and as an officer.

He threw himself with the fervor of the convert into the radical wing of the Whigs, and was brought into close relation with some of the most admired of the band of great men who created the young Republican party.

She told me she had read a play-book giving a description of our Society in the character of one of its members, and ever since she had had a particular desire to see one of us, and that she could not but admire with thankfulness that she had been gratified in having one to reside under her roof.

I know no one whom I less admire than Goethe; he seems a very epitome of the sins of genius, breaking open the doors of private life, and wantonly wounding friends, in that crowning offence of Werther, and in his own character a mere pen-and-ink Napoleon, conscious of the rights and duties of superior talents as a Spanish inquisitor was conscious of the rights and duties of his office.

There was one thing I admired about Sam: there was a thorough absence in him of all hypocrisy and cant.

The Passmores were tender of each other's eccentricities, admiring of each other's virtues.

Even when I shine my brightest I am less admired than when I was a Firefly, there are so many others like me.

I admire above everything young folk who throw themselves into ventures of war and sentiment with the impetuosity natural to their age.

The reflexions that occupied his mind continually varied: at one time he painted to himself the proud career of his high spirited boy, known and admired among the mighty of his time; a moment after he saw the prediction verified, and the child of his love lying in the tomb.

Much the greater portion of the volume has of course, as usual, been given to those poems (by Pope, Thomson, Collins, Gray, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, and Burns) which have been loved or admired from their day to our own.

Disraeli's Ixion, which she had admired without understanding it.

He is at least a male Horace Walpole; as superior to the "silken Baron," as Fonthill, with its York-like tower embosomed among hoary forests, was to that silly band-box which may still be admired on the road to Twickenham ...

It is plain that Lippi, left to himself, would never have chosen religious themes as such: it is equally plain, that having chosen them, he would naturally try to emulate and eclipse what was most admired in the great works of his predecessors and contemporaries.

"I thought you would admire to," said Mr. Aiken; "like as not you'd give a tooth to know, now wouldn't you?

[Illustration: CINDERELLA DANCING WITH THE PRINCE IS ADMIRED FOR HER GRACEFULNESS.

Belloc I admire beyond measure, but there is a sort of partisan viciousness about Belloc that bars him from my celestial dreams.

His "Summa Theologica" Its vast learning Parallel between Aquinas and Plato Parallel between Plato and Aristotle Influence of Scholasticism Waste of intellectual life Scholasticism attractive to the Middle Ages To be admired like a cathedral Authorities THOMAS BECKET.

What was most admired at the International Exhibition?The Dirty Boy.

He died A.D. 814, after a reign of half a century, lamented by his own subjects and to be admired by succeeding generations.

Not for your beauty; Though I confess, it blowes the first fire in us, Time as he passes by, puts out that sparkle; Nor for your wealth, although the world kneel to it, And make it all addition to a woman, Fortune that ruines all, makes that his conquest; Be honest, and be vertuous, I'le admire ye, At least be wise, and where ye lay these nets, Strow over 'em a little modesty, 'Twill well become your cause, and catch more Fools.

God forbid that I should attempt to describe it; and indeed I am not sure that the things that are most admired about it are the most admirable.

These speedy messengers have then bellies, loins, and heads firmly swathed, and they always travel as fast as their horses can go; and such as are able to endure this excessive riding, are held in great estimation, as nothing is more admired among the Tartars than good horsemanship.