Which preposition to use with greatnesses

of Occurrences 726%

We had a notion that the greatness of the prize would wipe away the offence by which it was secured, and that the delicious breakfast they would afford, would be received as a sufficient atonement for the sin of having taken them on a Sunday.

in Occurrences 65%

After his retirement in 1683 it fell to Betterton, of whose greatness in the part Cibber gives a lively picture.

as Occurrences 15%

No meditated praises could have borne such testimony to her greatness as the lofty strain in which Horace celebrates her fall and congratulates the Roman world on its escape from the ruin which she was threatening to the Capitol.

by Occurrences 13%

It rises to greatness by the fact that, underneath all its lambent buffoonery, it is aflame with righteous wrath.

to Occurrences 11%

If she was sent by a voice that spoke to her soul, and that voice was from God, what was human greatness to her?

from Occurrences 11%

" In vain I sought relief from my favourite books; those memorials of past nobleness and greatness from which I had always hitherto drawn strength and animation.

for Occurrences 10%

"For a few days Science reigns supreme,we are fêted and complimented to the top of our bent, and although complimenters and complimented must feel that it is only a sort of theatrical performance, for a few days and over, one does enjoy acting the part of greatness for a while!

without Occurrences 8%

The Lucian wits knew this very well; and, with a converse policy, when they would express scorn of greatness without the pity, they show us an Alexander in the shades cobbling shoes, or a Semiramis getting up foul linen.

with Occurrences 8%

Thus, once, long since, the daring of my youth Drew nigh thy greatness with a little thing; And thou didst take me in: thy home of truth Has domed me since, a heaven of sheltering, Uplighted by the tenderness and grace Which round thy absolute friendship ever fling A radiant atmosphere.

on Occurrences 5%

Within sight of the Mediterranean and of the Pyrenees, towering above the brown plains of Catalonia, this shrine is the greatest in Christendom that bases its greatness on nothing but tradition.

at Occurrences 4%

Those, who have set greatness at defiance, have yet been the slaves of fashion.

under Occurrences 4%

They will also know how, on his death, Gaumata, the "pseudo-Smerdis" of the Greeks, was urged by his ambitious brother, Oropastes, to seize the throne by impersonating the dead Bartja; how, finally, the pretender was defeated and had to pay for his attempt with his life; and how Persia rose again to unity and greatness under the rule of the noble Darius, Bartja's faithful kinsman and friend.

than Occurrences 4%

Nothing is more hostile to national greatness than when the poor see the rich governed only by pecuniary considerationsleaving nothing for the mind and the soul, or undervaluing virtue and talents.

into Occurrences 3%

Even Jove himself, who rules the skies, by this god coerced, molded his greatness into forms inferior to his own.

above Occurrences 2%

Probably Joe agreed with Steele, who, in speaking of a certain coffee-house, observed that in it men differed rather in the time of day wherein they made a figure, than in any real greatness above one another.

about Occurrences 2%

There came to her an overwhelming sense of greatness about to be revealed.

before Occurrences 2%

Thus, when we meet with strong natures, endowed with the secret of leadership and command, yet able to resist the subtle temptation to which so many of the finer spirits have succumbed, it behooves us to bow and to salute in them a greatness before which all that it is customary to call by that name fades into nothingness.

between Occurrences 1%

And it is but a debt of justice to the Guinevere of the romancers to observe, that she loses considerably by the marked transposition which Mr. Tennyson has effected in the order of greatness between Lancelot and Arthur.

amid Occurrences 1%

In the sweat and twilight and crudity of the actual event, when so much is merely ludicrous and discomforting, and all is enveloped in the element of fear, it is rare to perceive a glory shining, or to distinguish greatness amid the mud of contumely and commonplace.

against Occurrences 1%

But when war is forced upon us by Russian Czarism, then, whatever the final decision may be, we must drop all class distinctions and differences of every kind, to form a single, determined people, prepared to defend Germany's independence and greatness against the enemyeven to the last drop of blood."

after Occurrences 1%

Trained by Pitt, and in many gifts and graces his superior, Canning first displayed his full greatness after the death of his illustrious master.

over Occurrences 1%

All this proved to me that I was indeed upon the old road, and so I went on across Cobham Park without a thought of the great house, intent now on the noble city of Rochester, which presently as I came over the last hill I saw standing in all its greatness over the broad river of Medway, its mighty castle four square upon the further bank.

through Occurrences 1%

These of to-day were finer sufferings; this an age of transition in which she was passing through valleys of terrible shadow, but having preserved her natural greatness through the milleniums, she could not fail now with her poor gleanings of real love to give the world a generation of finer-grained men.

unto Occurrences 1%

As to how he came into the world to achieve that greatness unto which he had been preordained, and as to how King Arthur made him knight, and as to many very excellent adventures that befell him, you shall immediately read in what followeth.

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