SEE SMITH, NILA BANTON. Read and do to accompany the pre-primers Bill and Susan and Under the tree.

The commoners of England hold a proud pre-eminence.

She prided herself that she never worked in anybody's house but her own, and this immunity from outside service gave her a certain pre-eminence among her sisters.

William, by his power, his courage, and his abilities, had long maintained a pre-eminence among those haughty chieftains; and every one who desired to signalize himself by his address in military exercises, or in valour in action, had been ambitious of acquiring a reputation in the court and in the armies of Normandy.

Yet there is one paragraph I should have been glad he had omitted, which I am sure was owing to misinformation; that is, that I had acknowledged McLeod to be my chief, though my ancestors disputed the pre-eminence for a long tract of time.

seeing that as alive thou didst surpass all men in glory, thou must needs retain thy pre-eminence here below: so great Achilles triumphs over death.

He who affects the Applauses and Addresses of a Multitude, or assumes to himself a Pre-eminence upon any other Consideration, must soon turn Admiration into Contempt.

One view of the world is forced to yield its pre-eminence to another, which it has itself helped to produce by its own one-sidedness; only to reconquer its opponent later, when it has learned from her, when it has been purified, corrected, and deepened by the struggle.

Suppose an Infidel to ask me, how the Jews were to ascertain that John the Baptist was Elijah the Prophet;am I to assert the pre-existence of John's personal identity as Elijah?

To Thucydides, as an historian, the modern world also assigns a proud pre-eminence.

If these premisses be granted, 'tis no partiality to conclude, That our English Plays justly challenge the pre-eminence.

He occupied two spheres, in each of which he gained pre-eminence.

As we have thus traced the situation of man from unbounded liberty to subordination, it will be proper to carry our inquiries farther, and to consider, who first obtained the pre-eminence in these primoeval societies, and by what particular methods it was obtained.

Hence it is easy to collect its pre-eminence to all other philosophies; to show that where they oppose it, they are erroneous; that so far as they contain any thing scientific they are allied to it; and that at best they are but rivulets derived from this vast ocean of truth.

This established his pre-eminence as a sculptor.

"] [Footnote 130: In his stimulating book, Comment la route crée le type Social, Edmond Desmolins submits an ingenious hypothesis to explain the pre-eminence of the Gauls in the growing and making of pork, and how that pre-eminence was itself the explanation of their early success in cultivating the cereals.

" His death was regretted, not only from the memory of his virtues, but also from the fact that Nero appointed two men as his successors, of whom the one, Fenius Rufus, was honorable but indolent; the other and more powerful, Sofonius Tigellinus had won for himself among cruel and shameful associates a pre-eminence of hatred and of shame.

But the Argylls had borne a bad pre-eminence even among these.

And Yama granted him subtle taste in food as well as pre-eminence in virtue.

How very great the pre-eminence of those few whom all ages and nations admire!

A man hath no pre-eminence over a beast; all go to the same place....

It was Dryden's first theatrical production, and its reception by no means augured his future pre-eminence in literature; nor was it more than tolerated, when afterwards revived under the sanction of his increasing fame.

To this supremacy in wave and stream is joined a no less manifest pre-eminence in the character of trees.

Nobby keeps his pre-eminence of condition and has now the heaviest load by some 50 lbs.

It is in the mode just described, that those countries which formerly supplied Europe with manufactures, but which owed their power of doing so not to any natural and permanent advantages, but to their more advanced state of civilization as compared with other countries, have lost their pre-eminence as other countries successively attained an equal degree of civilization.