| 单词 | ennobling |
| 例句 | And this confession made his romantic gestures all the more ennobling. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His images of New York dockworkers and later Maine shipbuilders start to be more ennobling and hollow than gritty. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z “My grief was not ennobling me,” she writes. Books of The Times: Tales of Lives Extinguished All Too Soon 2011-04-12T23:52:00Z There’s also the vague sense that there’s something high-minded and ennobling about the show’s very existence. Dead Tree Alert: Smash: Broadway?s West Wing, or Its Studio 60? 2012-02-02T15:31:12Z I think something more stately would be more ennobling. Obama Portraits ‘Push Us to Think More,’ Readers Say 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Lest we enjoy all this flesh without an ennobling context, the movie kicks off with Wilhelm Reich’s assertion of the link between sexual repression and violence. | 'Now & Later': ?Now & Later? Explores Sex and Politics 2011-02-18T01:35:18Z He hopes to inspire a youthful generation, “obsessed,” in his phrase, with “the short-term payoff,” to participate in a larger, more ennobling scheme. Why Is Fashion Having an Astral Moment? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Something about forcing these strangers to bear witness to my tears felt ennobling, as if on behalf of a good fight. The tears of men: a crusade to have the sight of male crying be accepted, once and for all 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The Chorus becomes one of us, a bewildered face in the crowd doing its best to - hoping desperately to -- accept the ennobling official take on a bloody war but not quite buying it. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z The real shocker, though, is that classical music aficionados – including Alex Ross – still believe there can be something intrinsically morally ennobling about music. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z The actual sound of his voice was a cut above the rest of the competition, though, and he took the criticism gracefully — which was ennobling. LeRoy Bell and the 'b' word on 'X Factor': ranking the field 2011-11-18T18:02:03Z It’s the way the patty snuggles into the bun, the mutually ennobling contrast of pickle with tomato, tomato with lettuce, lettuce with mustard, mustard with patty. Beauty is in the mouth of the beholder: why veggie burgers deserve a chance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Dvorák had only good intentions – the ennobling of African American culture – but it's important not to see a piece of music isolated from its times. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Portland's the Decemberists give an earnest if unexciting account of the Bob Dylan anthem "When the Ship Comes In," redeemed by an ennobling instrumental bridge. New CDs: The Chieftains celebrate 50 years with 'Voice of Ages' 2012-02-18T00:31:13Z It’s from within the enabling, ennobling, and ostensibly sane frameworks of their business ventures that they find ways to pursue destructive and violent visions of godlike transcendence. Werner Herzog’s Internet Visionaries 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z “Theater isn’t supposed to be accusing anyone. It’s supposed to be supporting and maybe ennobling them in some way.” A Rare ‘Othello’ Puts the Spotlight on Race 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York’s exalted public spaces, is an ennobling experience, a gift. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z It was also pretty hard to keep my breakfast down, watching this exercise in simultaneously ennobling and judging the financially distressed. Reality TV’s sick depths: How the altruism porn of “The Briefcase” highlights America’s twisted relationship with its poor 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “We must imagine Sisyphus happy,” Camus famously wrote, and such a prompt is the ennobling virtue at the core of “Solitary.” The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Residents there were far less likely to see the L.A. freeway as ennobling or beautiful. Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z On the contrary, the film not only transports viewers to an entertaining and action-filled world, but it does so with positive and inspiring characters who ultimately deliver an ennobling and life-affirming message. Milk writer brands Ender's Game boycott 'misguided' 2013-07-15T10:36:41Z And his trio, with the bassist Henry Grimes and the drummer Chad Taylor, suggested both a convulsive departure from the club’s center-lane programming and the reverent ennobling of a chapter in its history. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z At the same time, it undid decades of headway by Bruce Springsteen in ennobling his native state, forever cementing its status as a punch line. Shutting down the house: 'Jersey Shore' ending run 2012-12-18T16:32:50Z When my stores of sympathy have not been fully depleted by contemplating the indignities heaped on Mr. Fleischer, I’ll then go on and immerse myself in the ennobling humility of the comedian Dane Cook. Circa Now: Bah, Humblebrag: The (Unfortunate) Rise of False Humility 2012-11-30T20:49:55Z It's a little bit irreverent, but isn't it also ennobling? Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The sight of these veteran actors contending with a world that has trashed its moral codes and exhausted not only hope but meaning itself is the ennobling promise of these productions. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z "The great ennobling outcome of Civil War was not just the end of a secessionist movement but the liberating of 4 million Americans who happened to be owned by other Americans." National Archives puts Civil War vaults on display 2010-04-27T22:35:00Z But as a whole “Brooklyn Village” was irresistible, suffused with conviction and ennobling warmth. Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Roulette 2012-03-26T22:28:24Z Exploring, ennobling and fusing a dozen forms of American music, he composed suites, symphonies, Broadway and Hollywood scores. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Photograph: Sarah Shatz There are people who insist that grief is ennobling. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief by Meghan O'Rourke ? review 2011-08-12T11:15:01Z We focus often on the form itself, the idea of getting kids reading, and it’s as if the process of decoding letters on flat, dead wood was somehow ennobling in and of itself. Scott McCloud: Girls Are Taking the Comic Book World By Storm 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It was ennobling and heartwarming and uplifting to the human spirit, of course, but kind of predictable and somehow not very … satisfying. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What to do with that half-hour before a nuclear missile strikes 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Sacrifice is ennobling and it is also searing. Bipolar drugs suck 2012-08-09T00:00:00Z He influenced a generation of architectural students as much through his insistence on the socially ennobling role of architecture, and its integrity as a discipline, as through his work. Raimund Abraham, Architect With Vision, Dies at 76 2010-03-06T06:27:00Z Bidart avoids the pitfalls of therapeutic poetry by ennobling thought itself. Five Decades of Frank Bidart’s Verse, From Masks to Self-Mythology 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z "It is perhaps naive to expect black men to be better — oppression is always demeaning and rarely ennobling," Coates writes. How the media at large failed Gayle King 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z But this aspect of Melville’s failure with the book is perhaps ennobling. Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z Each of them took the language of the common people and elevated it into verse, thereby ennobling both the language and the characters who spoke it. The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happened 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Such children may have fought valiantly, Samet writes, “but their motivations were hardly lofty, their experience less than ennobling.” ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z They are hardly placed on pedestals or lit by false, ennobling, autumnal light. ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Everyone knew that Amundsen had relied on sled dogs to reach the pole while Scott and his men had been man-hauling, a grueling practice that the British considered far more ennobling. Science and the Race for the South Pole 2011-06-03T16:50:45Z “But to ignore that there are everyday concerns that are much more ennobling for the spirit is to be blind in front of the frame.” Finding Poetry in a Couple?s Pain 2011-07-29T20:01:01Z “Such study must exercise an ennobling and purifying effect on the human soul,” a botanist wrote in 1866. Antiques: Fern History, Fry Glass and a Militiaman?s Sword 2012-03-15T21:37:47Z Ultimately, "The Guilty" isn't quite as unwatchable as some of the older cop thrillers and "Law and Order" spinoffs, set on ennobling law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z There's something ennobling about making the best of a bad job – my mother did. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z While even Beethoven's deafness is seen as ennobling, however, our vision of Schumann as spent, lifeless and inert only diminishes him. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z He bristles at the notion of suffering as ennobling, be that notion drawn from an epic poem or a religious text. ‘The Book of My Lives’: war and wonder, death and remembrance 2013-03-27T22:25:54Z I was suffused with a splendid, ennobling feeling, a sense of fortitude and power. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z The opportunities that arise, to compete for the attention of the publishers and production companies that now want their stories, are corrupting, not ennobling. Review | Tell your friends about the disturbing ‘Gloria,’ but do not tell them the plot. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z People teach, Keegin said, "because they believe in the ennobling of the human soul through encounters with the great minds of the past." Can we untangle our humanity from the artificial intelligence ouroboros? 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z There's a lot of talk about protecting democracy and our institutions from Trump, which can feel ennobling to the pundits, but often feels bloodless to ordinary people listening. Why the new Trump indictment feels so different: This time, there are victims 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z It adds an ennobling air to their real function, which is propaganda. Fox News has learned nothing — the mainstream press can't let them get away with it 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Philanthropy, the ennobling pursuit of the rich and famous, is in the headlines. Jeff Bezos: Does US-style philanthropy exist in UK? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z British media have reported that Johnson overruled British intelligence agencies’ concerns about the 2020 ennobling of Lebedev, who owns the Independent and Evening Standard newspapers. UK withholds security advice over peerage for oligarch’s son 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z I found little ennobling about a struggle to overcome enemies that demands a sort of rote perfectionism. Review | ‘Elden Ring’: A sparkling version of the old Souls formula 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The language about "protecting" girls is just bad faith posturing, trying to make a vicious attack on the rights of young trans people sound somehow ennobling. Oh, c'mon — anti-trans hysteria has nothing to do with "protecting" girls and women 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Second, contending that the Emancipation Proclamation freed no enslaved people — because it exempted border states and applied only to areas then under rebel control — ignored its true significance in transforming and ennobling the war’s aims. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: What’s going on in this photo? 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z “We believe in ennobling our people,” he said. A small-town congregation sold its church. A whites-only group moved in. 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Like “multiculturalism,” “minority” is a no-no in France, because in its self-image this is a nation of undifferentiated citizens drawn to an ennobling, universal idea. Eyeing Re-election, Macron Walks a Tightrope Above Swirling Crises in France 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Or maybe because they believed that showing up to honor a successful and worthy opponent is a demonstration of character — and an especially ennobling act after a hotly contested election. Opinion | If Trump attends Biden’s inauguration, he should do these other eminently decent tasks, too 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The presidency is a complex burden that practically ensures moments of failure, even as a man or woman tries mightily to rise to its ennobling challenges day after day. Perspective | Trump’s refusal to wear face masks turned them into a sad national symbol 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a way not to argue for its value but to recognise and proclaim its value, and to lavish it with the peculiar, ennobling dignity art can bestow. 'I wanted something 100% pornographic and 100% high art': the joy of writing about sex 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Her tone is astringent, stripping the memories of any ennobling tragedy or nostalgic fuzz. Review | Asian Americans’ uneasy place in the national narrative 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z He feared that a new invention, the record player, would render obsolete “the ennobling discipline of learning music,” putting professional musicians out of work. Like It or Not, Automation Is Coming 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “We’re in a moment now where a woman going through an intense internal conflict that is not necessarily ennobling or touching traditional maternal touchstones is happening.” Film roles for women have seen old tropes fall away and full-fledged human beings emerge 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z In conversations with associates, Hughes has said that he believes giving secretly is ennobling. This secret donor has given USC $400 million 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z "It isn't an ennobling gesture to the American people," said Bennet, calling the attempt to "bribe" voters "the worst angels of our nature." Bill Bennett: 2020 Dems trying to 'bribe' voters with 'free money,' Americans won't fall for it 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Bit by bit, these little troll-the-liberals stunts build and reinforce the idea that there's something ennobling and necessary about killing their own capacity for compassion or concern for others. New frontiers in sucking: Why is the Trump campaign selling plastic straws? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z As a result, democracy is at once “the most free, most humane, most decent political system ever invented by man,” and also “the most banal. Dying for it is far more ennobling than living it.” Opinion | The lessons my father, Charles Krauthammer, taught me about being thankful 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Kavanaugh’s evident desire to play down his drinking — “Sometimes I had too many beers,” he told the Senate Judiciary Committee — may be natural, but it is not exactly ennobling. Opinion | Does it matter what Kavanaugh did in high school? Well, yes. 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Then there is the larger issue of ennobling violence, particularly the constant portrayal of bloody retribution as the pinnacle of masculine autonomy. Toxic gaming culture can’t fully explain the Jacksonville Madden shooting 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z France in 1857 was not quite ready for Millet's ennobling of the poor. Jonathan Gold recommends 10 food-centric films 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Blame much of it on the cultural value we place on hard work, and the ennobling status that it confers. In Defense of the Not-So-Busy Retirement 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z His website proclaims his new book, “shattered the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.” Jordan Peterson, clinical psychologist and scholar, becomes global star, marked man 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Mocked with such unmanly epithets as “weakling” and “Oscar Wilde”, Roosevelt tried to overcome, Gore Vidal once pointed out, “his physical fragility through ‘manly’ activities of which the most exciting and ennobling was war”. The crisis in modern masculinity 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z That did not mean abjuring love as a subject, but rather ennobling it while understanding its limitations. A Brief History of Gay Theater, in Three Acts 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Americans are longing for a more ennobling, less exhausting political leader. Opinion | Trump’s White House Is a Black Hole 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z They feel there is something ennobling about letting the people speak. Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I’m not sure if it’s a winning one, but I’m certain it’s an ennobling one. Opinion | Going Against the Republican Herd 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z But instead of an ennobling defeat, he’s been saddled with a dubious draw that’s reinforced his reputation, fair or otherwise, as a child of privilege. How boxing won the lottery but lost the ticket once again 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z With rousing music and sentimental scripts, Avildsen was a master at ennobling and lifting the underdog into states of grace. 'Rocky' director John G. Avildsen dies at 81 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Tony Horowitz of The Atlantic stated, “The Civil War today is generally seen as a necessary and ennobling sacrifice, redeemed by the liberation of four million slaves.” Racists, slavery apologists, and white nationalists knew exactly what Trump was saying about the Civil War 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The two sides of the controversy over the woman breast-feeding her child in church suffer from the ennobling smokescreen of principle. Opinion | The right to breast-feed in public 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z There's something mysterious and ennobling about the dangerous endeavor to extract valuable commodities from deep within the earth, something that's missing from, say, used-car sales or ski-lift operation. Analysis | The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The movie seems to be ennobling the Quangels, and mourning them, long before their inevitable capture. Wartime resistance drama 'Alone in Berlin' never gets a grip on its historical moment 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z To him, our faith in the ennobling power of political debate is no more well grounded than the supposition that college fraternities build character. The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z It is hard to tell whether Simon is ennobling his fit of pique by comparing it to the anger of the dispossessed or mocking his own overreaction. Paul Simon’s Hot Streak 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “Yet in the rearview mirror it appears ennobling and grand. And now it feels jagged, and the fabric is worn.” That Moment When 2016 Hits You 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet, far from ennobling its hero, “Werther” is actually a warning against what Goethe sees as a consuming spiritual disease. Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z I used to believe there was something ennobling in all that loss. Why I’m Rooting for the Cubs in the World Series 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z But that default assumes that the only kind of force that matters is violence, and that sex, or love, are automatically less valid, less interesting, and less ennobling than hitting people. Super sexy Wonder Woman shows that violence isn't the only way to battle evil 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott spent Monday morning mired in controversy after his office kicked off National Day celebrations by ennobling Britain’s loose-tongued Prince Philip as a Knight of the Order of Australia. Australia Awards Prince Philip With Top Honor 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z And of course there are a great many ennobling and inspiring things that movies can do, other passions that can be aroused as we sit on soft chairs in the dark, surrounded by strangers. A Brief History of Kissing in Movies 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “I’m someone that believes there’s nothing more ennobling to a person than a job,” Pence insisted. Indiana's Pence hopes to 'ennoble' hungry workers 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The Knowledge stands for, well, knowledge — for the Enlightenment ideal of encyclopedic learning, for the humanist notion that diligent intellectual endeavor is ennobling, an end in itself. The Knowledge, London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z It was an ennobling performance for all three colts involved in the photo finish. Bayern deserved Breeders’ Cup victory, despite infraction Instead of concealing or ennobling this lack as a conventional history painting might, Rembrandt homed in on it with morbid fascination. Rembrandt: The Late Works review – triumph in master’s tragedy 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z For some, the act of tweeting about the death of a public figure is not only cathartic but ennobling as well. Robin Williams’s Death, Reflected in Social Media 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Nice for sure, but it is not something as ennobling as patriotism. The Art Of Loving Your Country 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The campaign is a carnival, and yet in rare bright moments, it can seem a hopeful, ennobling, pluralistic spectacle. Smile! One of You Will Be the Next Mayor of New York 2013-07-25T15:17:11Z The Regent that Blackadder has to deal with can be relied on to do the foolish thing - whether it be ennobling Baldrick or confusing a play with real life. Blackadder and history 2013-06-15T03:52:03Z Not infinitely good, or infinitely ennobling, or infinitely beautiful. The pain when children fly the nest 2013-04-19T17:22:52Z After all, buildings are not just about their ennobling features and uplifting vistas. City Room: Celebrating Penn Station, in All Its Blandness 2012-09-04T16:23:48Z It is genuinely ennobling, this belief in the basic sanctity of the managerial mission. Perhaps it is time to cut André Villas-Boas some slack 2012-07-13T12:28:07Z This was hardly material for an ennobling Memorial Day tale of sacrifice and devotion to duty. City Room: Remembering the New Yorkers Who Served 2012-05-29T13:15:05Z The object of art is the giving of pleasure; the mission of the artist is that of giving ennobling pleasure. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Amongst those who demonstrate the ennobling influence of science let us only name Boyle, Bacon, Kepler, and Newton. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z To pass through Grand Central Terminal," he wrote, "is an ennobling experience, a gift. City Room: Celebrating Penn Station, in All Its Blandness 2012-09-04T16:23:48Z It had occurred to her that if she had been born in the gutter and grown to adolescence with no ennobling influence, she would have developed into a notable force for evil. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z The style, the sentiments, and the teachings are faultless and ennobling. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z Love, my young friend, is in itself a grand and ennobling thing, leading us to do great actions for the esteem and approbation of her we love. Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z To have loved so truly was surely in itself an ennobling thing. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z He considers successively its extent, its effects, and the means to avert it—the last being, of course, the ennobling and spiritualizing influence of Catholicism. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z While, then, all inferior nature shrinks instinctively from the winds of Autumn and the storms of winter, to the high intellect of man they teach ennobling lessons. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The effects of music may, therefore, be ennobling and refining; but they can as easily be degrading and demoralizing. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The ennobling difference between one man and another—between one animal and another—is precisely in this, that one feels more than another. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z How could killing on a large scale be anything but an ennobling occupation? A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z This last alternative has the advantage of ennobling your position into a quasi-martyrdom, by, in a measure, compelling you to stay where you are, whether you like it or not. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Strong and ennobling love between man and woman may involve, under certain conditions, temptation and struggle; even the best of our impulses may not always be followed, if we desire to act morally. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Around us are the countless opportunities for ennobling and gladdening the lives of those whose courage burns low, or who have never known the transforming companionship of Christ. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z I could see the ennobling effect of that great passion. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z The Attic wit and Spartan boldness of the latter, exhibit original powers of mind, strength of will, and a degree of self-possession truly grand and ennobling. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z O mother, wife, and loved one, know thine unlimited powers, and hold them forever for the ennobling of men! Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z He feels no ennobling principle in his own heart who wishes to level all the artificial institutions which have been adopted for giving a body to opinion and permanence to fugitive esteem. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Thus her influence was ever ennobling, and each felt that in her society he was truer, wiser, better, and yet more free and happy than elsewhere. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z I could not account for the oppressive silence, for often before I had reclined at the foot of some forest giant, and experienced widely different feelings; all here seemed indescribably grand and ennobling. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z To him it was a crowded place of ennobling strife. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z And like these and various other pagan Saviors Jesus is assigned the highest and most ennobling human origin—a birth from a virgin. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Art, while losing naught of beauty, would become unfailingly ennobling. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Yet the genius of Lucretius and of Horace expressed these doctrines in tones of dignity and beauty, which have been denied to more ennobling truths. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z What Mrs. St. Cloud had told her of the ennobling influence of a true woman, flashed upon her mind.142 "You see, I had no mother," he said simply—"and Aunt Rella spoiled me—." The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z This was a purifying and ennobling of civil society wrought by the Church over and above its spiritual end. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z But even if we admit that warfare � l'espagnole may be degrading, and that just wars are ennobling and necessary to our moral welfare, we should nevertheless be condemned to degeneracy and decline. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Within that manly heart was enthroned a conscience, alert alike to receive and to originate, as also to approve and fulfill all noble and ennobling obligations. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Another Lincoln was to do something—something equally ennobling to himself and his fellowmen. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z She said that such a friendship was 'an ennobling influence' for the boys. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z His poems revealed the grandeur of scenery, as well as history, and made delight in mountains and thunderstorms felt as an ennobling influence. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z There is another, less ennobling convention, and it has been observed with zeal ever since a wretch fired a shot that took Officer Figoski’s life a week ago. City Room: Assigning Blame for Officer Peter J. Figoski's Killing 2011-12-19T14:41:31Z Have we no traits and sentiments which are lofty and ennobling? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z There was something delightfully ingenuous and ennobling in our intimacy—one might say pastoral; I don't know what to call it—it was delightful. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z In gratitude for her pre-eminent and timely services in his cause, Charles issued his royal edict ennobling her and her family. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z In a life without reproach, spent in the discharge of duty, and in refined and ennobling pursuits, there was nothing on which self-observation, while it looked at the outward, could detect a stain. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z An ennobling philosophy, however, gave him support, and in the morning he had again been refreshed by a sleep of some few hours' duration. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z "In other years," thought the English gentleman, "this might have been a great man—the defender unto death of his country's rights—the advocate of all that is ennobling, stern, and grand." The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z To be called his mistress is dear and ennobling to her. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z The scene that followed discloses the religious nature of Magellan and his joy in what was ennobling. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z It encourages thought of all that is ennobling and pure. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z What a purifying and ennobling ministration for ourselves! Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Surrounded by an atmosphere densely impregnated with the miasm of a false religion and a corrupt morality, the ennobling thought of a true God and the moral accountability of man never enters their minds. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z It is this ennobling consciousness of intellectual power, supplemented by unconquerable and irresistible will, that makes the magnificence of the personality of Lucifer. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Taking in washing would be much more ennobling than what some of them were doing. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z Why is the reality less ennobling than the imagination? The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. The Unnecessary Conflict Between Evangelicalism and Science 2011-10-07T11:35:28Z True patriotism is a very noble and ennobling sentiment. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z Like Goethe, the Dutch poet exerted an ennobling influence on the theatre of his country. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Overlooking Long Island Sound in the Bronx, it also has a humanistic side, as an ennobling public work of democratic ambition. | Orchard Beach, the Bronx: Streetscapes | A High-Minded Pavilion at Orchard Beach in the Bronx 2011-09-22T21:41:59Z This historical tale is full of the most interesting episodes, while at the same time its tone is pure and ennobling. Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1891 Books for Young People 2011-09-19T02:00:13.163Z Into these different faces at Mrs. Dandridge's table, a single idea had passed suddenly, vitalizing and ennobling both the bright and the dull features—the idea of willing sacrifice. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z For the real terror of the time of war is not during the war; then war has certain very ennobling powers. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z In the family, Christianity has most signally displayed its power of refining, ennobling, and sanctifying earthly relationships. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z It was not Honor he was angry with; it was the systematic perversion of ideals, and the hypocrisy which exalted this mischievous doctrine into something fine and ennobling that enraged him. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Every added step in the way he had chosen was taking him farther from the ideals of an ennobling love and nearer to a possibility which precluded all ideals. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z The doctrine, in itself, has nothing elevating about it, but the teaching closely connected with the doctrine has its ennobling and purifying side. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Science is good and its study ennobling, but it does not suffice for man’s highest aspirations, nor for the development of his moral nature. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z It is the destroyer of womanly purity, womanly refinement—destroying the higher instincts and ennobling qualities. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z I don't know whether I belong to decent society or not, but, in my humble opinion, it's the same as ennobling a woman. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z One presents all the grossness and belittling aspect of money-getting, the other the graces, liberality, and ennobling appearance of culture and refinement. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Some people think the fact that the idea embodied in their verse is good and ennobling, should condone weak or faulty workmanship. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z He always meant justly, and did not hesitate to give us new and ennobling estimates of hated men. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z To be majestic and ennobling, thought must be unrestrained; to be praiseworthy, deeds must be uncontrolled. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z The thrice wretched unfortunates in our prisons are refused all means of cheering and ennobling them. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z What ennobling influences come to schoolboys when once they can think their teacher is the sort of person they would like to be! The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Full of these ennobling, and as it proved, delusive ideas, she entered the wigwam with a mien and step which would not have disgraced a far more regal palace. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z And shall I resign this ennobling possession because I am a woman? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The fact that money changes hands in the process doesn’t make any less ennobling. Radical Management In France: The Quest For Heavenly Bread 2011-07-09T08:02:38Z Perhaps the blissful task of ennobling him is assigned to her whom he loves. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z We have, it is true, this splendid hall, which lessens our expense for food and encompasses us with ennobling influences; but it costs $150 a year to board here. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z A more touching and tender address to the dead was never uttered than this Poem expresses, a more pure and ennobling affection was never described. A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z To know what has been done in all countries, since man was placed upon the earth, is a laudable curiosity, and an ennobling pursuit. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z He loved with an insatiable love the town and the pleasures of the town, whilst the ennobling influences of our English lakes were quite unknown to him. The Happy Hypocrite A Fairy Tale For Tired Men 2011-06-24T02:00:21.977Z He showed us the museum, which, like the library, was fixed in glass cases to the walls of the chambers, adorning and ennobling the space, which it did not crowd. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z In this heightened national dignity, women will have a large and ennobling share. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Her cheek was flushed with holy enthusiasm; her figure dilated with the sublimity of the thoughts in which she had been indulging; and her eyes beamed with the ennobling hopes of religious enthusiasm. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z The sublimer the ideal the more potent and ennobling its influence on the human soul. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Fellow Passengers in the Diligence to MALAGA—one, a corpulent and famous Bull-Fighter, and the other, an envious and admiring follower of the same ennobling Profession. Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868 2011-06-09T02:00:21.267Z My love for Helena, for reasons which I did not then comprehend, was not of a soothing, ennobling, purifying type. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z I still believe this, and I am pretty confident that a good many years will pass before we shall dispense with the ennobling services of our ministers. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Moreover, it is a purifying and ennobling way. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z I think that my analysis of the conditions which must be fulfilled if the relations is to be an ennobling one was sound. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z What a purifying and ennobling influence was thus exercised over the taste of the artist! an influence which nothing can replace. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z There is a love so pure and ennobling that eternity shall not be long enough to cast its blossom, nor death sharp enough to loosen the foundation of its hold. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z All that is tender, grand, and ennobling finds there its home, its source and sustenance, its inspiration, and its exceeding great reward. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z As a rule women are of a more retiring disposition, and the result is that their merits are not so readily recognised as those of men, yet their works are often more ennobling and lasting. Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z It interested Edward to imagine what such a countenance could express under the ennobling influence of a pure Christian life. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z But, after all, I was fortuitous in advancing many ennobling and wholesome truths. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z They can therefore bring it about that a person subject to their influence decides in favor of good conduct in the civilized sense without any ennobling of impulse or change from egotistic into altruistic inclinations. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z Literature very early became the passion, the one serious and ennobling enthusiasm of his life. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The contemplation of the really beautiful, whether in nature or in art, ought per se to have an elevating, ennobling, refining influence on the mind. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Let us, who love it, treat Agriculture as the elevated, ennobling pursuit it might and should be, and thus exalt it in the estimation of the entire community. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z If, on the other hand, your aspirations pertain to the realm of the lofty and beautiful, you render yourself thereby receptive to the grand and ennobling influences of the pure and heavenly. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Some ennobling phase of that wonderful story which would touch the tender, true affinity of human nature for the higher things—from this he would preach to-day. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z The tale of Agilulf vulgarizes the chivalrous conception of love ennobling men of low estate, by showing how a groom, whose heart is set upon a queen, avails himself of opportunity. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Dear old Mrs. Lea was charming, and full of quaint proverbs and sayings, all, as far as I remember them, of a very ennobling nature. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z "There is surely another kind,--a genuine, sacred, ennobling love!" Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Her soul was kept enraptured by the ennobling influences of music, and such music, of which you as yet have no conception. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z The Christian faith would make no progress whatever in Japan were it not found by Japanese themselves to be ennobling and satisfying. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z It was the extreme of grandeur, awe-inspiring and ennobling. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Tell him, besides, that I am ever the same, save in that expansion of the soul which comes of enlarged views of life,—more exalted notions and more ennobling emotions! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Whence came the generous feelings, the high imaginations, the glorious fancies, the heavenward inspirations, which raised him above the herd of vulgar men—but from the ennobling influence of her he loved? The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Whatever is beautiful or sublime has the same purifying and ennobling tendency. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z From boyhood his mother's hand had pointed steadily to the search for truth as the supreme ennobling fact in life. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z Let us choose carefully, that only pure and ennobling influences may be thus shed into our hearts. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z The passion they celebrated never seems to have inspired one ennobling or generous sentiment, nor to have lifted them for one moment above the grossest selfishness. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z He has convinced me that the work of ennobling men was several sizes too large for me—so I am going to let it alone—— Rebecca. Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas 2011-02-19T03:01:38.583Z Henley, whose town and hospital poems had a poignant as well as an ennobling strain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "The ennobling depths of pain" need also "the purifying fire of love" to round out a perfect character. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z There was another ennobling, however, which the public as warmly approved as the Queen heartily sanctioned. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z Shakespeare's grave, in the chancel of Stratford church, awakens the same ennobling awe and melancholy pleasure; and it is with kindred feeling that you linger at the tomb of Gray. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z The Rosmer view of life is ennobling, very—but hardly lively. Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas 2011-02-19T03:01:38.583Z A people with such an art, combined with ennobling vegetarianism, must necessarily be a superior people. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The cares of the wife and mother, however numerous, however anxious, are comparatively ennobling! Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-01-26T03:00:28.110Z She looked more indulgently than the general public did, on the ennobling of his children of the Jordan family. Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z More than this: it is to rise to the ennobling serenity that always accompanies broad, retrospective contemplation of the current of human affairs. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z As he noted the girl's hesitation a trace of sadness passed over his coarsened features, almost ennobling them. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Belief in God—Religion.—There is no evidence that man was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an Omnipotent God. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z It was a work ennobling to a people—the inspiration of a great national usefulness. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z In such a view Mr. Mill sees much that is ennobling. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z "The fine ideal of womanhood in a person never once physically described will gratify the highest tone of the period, and is an ennobling conception."—Time and The Hour, Boston. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z “Doing business with North Korea is not for the faint of heart,” Mr. Kim said on the school’s Web site, “but the effort is ennobling and necessary.” An Unlikely Pairing Bears Fruit in North Korea 2010-10-26T00:59:00Z The ennobling belief in God is not universal with man; and the belief in active spiritual agencies naturally follows from his other mental powers. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Moreover, Mr. Moore’s assertion that the work of the photographers here was a search “toward the rediscovery of something ennobling and purposeful in modern American life” feels disingenuous and off base. | New Jersey: Tracking the Decade When Color Photography Rose 2010-08-06T23:24:00Z So now Mr. Giannoulias is climbing in the polls, and Mr. Obama has at last decided to plunge into what will probably be one of this fall’s least ennobling Senate campaigns. Political Times: Obama and Illinois Keep Each Other at Arm?s Length 2010-08-04T16:50:00Z It also helped that Judaism, unlike many strains of Christianity, did not consider poverty particularly ennobling. 2010-02-12T18:43:00Z "Your daughter actually refuses the ennobling alliance which I have been at such pains to arrange for her." A Poached Peerage It converts the abolition of legal restraint into a form of freedom that will help the full development of personality, and make the love of man and woman more wonderful, more beautiful, and more ennobling. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Why do they all say suffering is necessary and ennobling? Woman He received a good English education and was designed for the ennobling pursuit of agriculture. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution I cannot even begin to remind you of the immense treasure of noble and ennobling prose and verse that this world has accumulated in the past three thousand years. The Salvaging Of Civilisation "Am I such a moral companion—such an ennobling influence?" Sinister Street, vol. 2 A feeling of his self-importance was strong in the coiner; the work itself, the handling of the precious metals fresh from the fire, was considered ennobling. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. He took a body and soul like ours, thus ennobling and deifying, so to speak, our human nature. Fraternal Charity Were there no hope of ennobling that heart, of freeing it from the absurdities with which it is encrusted, I declare solemnly I would not accept it for three millions. The Progressionists, and Angela. She would—oh yes, she would have given her up—with gladness—as a mother gives up her child—to a love that she could have recognized as ennobling. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Tell classes that they need the instructions of this Master, that society may be less a den of selfish contentions, and more a field of gracious ministries and ennobling toils. Misread Passage of Scriptures Of the free public library he held a view radically opposed to that of Mr. O'Brien, believing it to be “an engine for operating upon” the community, in ways at once protective and ennobling. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Has my position as religious, has the majesty of the King of Kings, of whom I have become the intimate friend, in place of ennobling me, degraded me? Fraternal Charity And yet, in a spirit of self-sacrifice, the sons of St. Benedict came among the German barbarians, to bring to them the ennobling doctrines of Christianity. The Progressionists, and Angela. But there is nothing great and ennobling about this suffering, and tragedy is concerned with the sufferings of greatness. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This comes so soon that talking is ennobling. Geography and Plays The story of the three sisters was infinitely sad, but it is the ennobling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result. Maria Edgeworth I too once, like "Winthrop," longed to pluck the precious fruits of knowledge and prepare myself for something high and ennobling. An Artilleryman's Diary To such a one, it seems to me, literature must prove ennobling. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. No; that feature would seem the prerogative of the highly born; fashioned to the expression of high and holy thoughts; moulded to the utterance of ennobling sentiment, or proud desire. Jack Hinton The Guardsman It was a pleasing ride, ennobling to the soul as a series of beautiful scenes were unrolled to the view. A Daughter of the Union The ennobling effect of all great and perfect art, after the primary emotion, seems to be to set our minds wandering in a thousand channels, to suggest new outlets. Interpreters Trouble is educational and ennobling; monotony cramps growth at the roots. An Unknown Lover I have awaited this virile disavowal from the proudest spirits of Germany, a disavowal which would have been ennobling instead of humiliating. Above the Battle Whether the subject be the ‘Newspaper People,’ ‘Spiritualism,’ ‘London Gents.’ or ‘Criminal London,’ he has the happy disposition of educing good and ennobling lessons and influence from each and all.—Press. About London Considered in its highest aspect, no art ever was attempted by man more elevated and ennobling than the historical romance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 For both the culture of the intellect and the ennobling of the soul it is necessary that man should step out of the narrow limits of self and come into touch with a larger world. Jewish Theology In the midst of their internal convulsions, and through all the prostration of their national strength, the Poles had never lost their individual courage, or the ennobling feelings of civil independence. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 Their effect in stimulating and ennobling the spirit of the navy during the war with France was so marked as to call for special acknowledgment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" He proclaims this love to be not only a daily fact in the present, but also a saving and ennobling aspiration. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists Making play, instead of ennobling work till through that the soul can play,—that is child's play. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 The synagogal worship exerts an ennobling influence upon the spirit of the individual as well as that of the community. Jewish Theology But he had or seemed to have all the benefits, all the ennobling force of strong emotion, with a complete exemption from its dangers. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Many of their prayers dimly reflected those pure and ennobling sentiments which shine so brilliantly in the word of God. Hernando Cortez Makers of History This is a wholesome and ennobling exercise of the memory. Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania And Goethe's great knowledge of human nature is shown in this, that Wilhelm does not regain his ennobling imaginations while holding fast to the cool suggestions of prudence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 From that hour, I wished to live; a changed spirit came over me, and I felt as though with higher and more ennobling thoughts I should once more tread the earth. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands From his very childhood, Sir Archy had instilled into him this thirst for distinction, wisely substituting such an ambition for any other less ennobling. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago Have they found the battle of life any more ennobling in masculine professions than in their old feminine household ways? Maids Wives and Bachelors The comradeship that fears to urge the ennobling ideal is not comradeship but concession. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home She knew how holy were its charities, how pure its precepts, how ennobling its influences, even when encumbered with the grossest superstitions. Josephine Makers of History The Middle Ages proclaimed, through chivalry, the truth, then for the first time fully apprehended, that woman is the mediating and ennobling element in human life. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Put together the wisest and most ennobling suggestions of those who regard Christianity as obsolete and you find that it is virtually Christianity which is delineated. Modern Substitutes for Christianity In his eyes she remains a being incapable of any grand and sustained sacrifice of her instincts to the ennobling mastery of moral responsibility. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. Loyalty, liberty, patriotism, charity, piety, benevolence, every generous feeling, every glowing sentiment, every ennobling passion, grows out of his descriptive powers. Coelebs In Search of a Wife It accomplishes the most exalted achievements, and diffuses the most ennobling happiness. Josephine Makers of History Under the constant influence of such comfortable and ennobling thoughts, it is not in the elastic nature of the human mind to remain long dejected. The Witches of New York On the whole the Old Gospel will be found as ennobling, as inspiring, as practical as the New. Modern Substitutes for Christianity It is the most beguiling solace of life: it is its most ennobling pursuit. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries The vacancy of mind, the absence of any ennobling aspiration, so noticeable in the agricultural labourer, is a painful fact. The Hills and the Vale The first step in the paths of vice in any form, whether in sexual errors or any other, detracts in the exact degree of the digression from all of the above beautiful and ennobling characteristics. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects Those who were looked upon as mere carpet knights became veritable heroes; lawyers became colonels: war has an ennobling influence on so many types of character. Eyes Like the Sea It is to turn away, though it be to Zeus, a belief in whom, however stupid, is ennobling beside the turpitudes that Christian mysticism produced. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal What feeling so endearing, so ennobling as gratitude? Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 It is a grand and an ennobling feeling to know that at this moment illimitable time extends on either hand. The Hills and the Vale She should read much that is elevating and ennobling in character as this serves a good purpose in producing a more perfect, more healthy and more brilliant child. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects They are often obliged to mingle in the life of the people, and more than the "children of the sun," they are capable of enlarging their minds and ennobling their duties. Contemporary Russian Novelists The land was quite another thing, and farming, to his mind, as ennobling an occupation as any under heaven. An Isle in the Water Yes, you are my lovely, glorious star of love," said Nathanael, "and will shine for ever, purifying and ennobling my heart" "Ach! Weird Tales. Vol. I These words are more than formal expressions of great principles; they are ennobling. History of the Constitutions of Iowa They cloak their grief in the fashions of other days, thus ennobling it and despoiling it of its poisoned dart. The Forerunners To work is dignified and ennobling, for to work means the exercise of the mental quite as much as the physical self. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself The Stretta ensued, and the music-tide flowed so high and full that the fashionable audience forgot all artificial conventionalities, and yielded themselves freely to the ennobling emotions of human sympathy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Contrary to his custom, Shakespeare has degraded the characters of his original, instead of ennobling them. An Introduction to Shakespeare He knows, as few know on our side of the wide water, the effect, chastening and yet ennobling, of such architecture, consecrated by such associations. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 Rapidly she was groping her way from the gloom of the most wretched of all lives—a life of pleasure and of self-indulgence—to the true and ennobling happiness of benevolence and self-sacrifice. Maria Antoinette Makers of History The Morning Post: “The book is full of poignant moments ... a noble and ennobling study in human idealism.” The Count's Chauffeur This truth constitutes the most ennobling and inspiring part of man's knowledge, and it was naturally discovered by him, not supernaturally revealed to him. Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View Hardly a day goes by without some new discovery, some new experience being made towards improving and ennobling one or other of these several branches. Woman under socialism They must imitate the worship of the true God, a worship of sincere devotion and honest intention, with their offering, the calf, in the attempt to introduce a refined and ennobling worship. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent Rightly directed, the study of law was ennobling, and jurists should receive an education which would give them broad and generous views of the principles of justice. George Brown “The cause is the Democracy of Art, the ennobling of daily and common work.” Needlework As Art You tried to train some one, and he or she followed the ignis fatuus more readily than any high, ennobling truth. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Thus, the joining of hands by husband and wife for the common weal, so closely connected with the weal of the individual, will exert a most ennobling influence. Woman under socialism They, in the manner of swift angels ennobling and glorifying those hidden plains, expanded the habitation of Japhet, in order that he might possess the famous tents of Shem. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Nay, if we admit that we have instincts which are the very substance of all that afterwards becomes ennobling, have we not also instincts which suggest a close alliance with the brutes? Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) And there is an ennobling and enriching effect of sorrow well borne. The Heart of the New Thought How many of these, who formerly dissipated their leisure time at drinking-houses, now find an ennobling recreation in these associations, where the spirit of union and fraternity is engendered and developed! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Suffer me to point it out to you, and to impress upon your minds the ennobling sentiments they are so well adapted to convey. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. It was quite as inspiriting and ennobling as going over a battlefield and robbing the dead, and about as safe for the operators. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life "I consider that passage one of the finest in modern fiction—one of the most ennobling and illumining—" "Ennobling!" The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse It is only by loosening all the chains of all women and all men alike that the inherent energies of the world's workers can be set free for the eventual ennobling of the race. The Truth About Woman These ennobling sentiments or ideals, while universal in their essential nature, assume in each civilized nation a somewhat specific coloring. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures God bless you all and give you an ennobling season together, harmonious and uplifting in its results. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Do you suggest that an inner ennobling of scattered Israel might be the finer goal, the truer antidote to anti-Semitism? Dreamers of the Ghetto He had the body and muscle of an athlete, but there was nothing ennobling or inspiring in the expression of his countenance. Raiding with Morgan It is the office of commerce to give to the world perpetual illustrations of the homely but ennobling truth that honesty is the best policy. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' She had expected 70 something romantic, something ennobling and fine. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Nobler task, Or more ennobling, can our Sisters ask? Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 The opposite is also held, to the effect that beautiful objects, delightful music, and everything elevating and ennobling will have a favorable effect upon the body or mind of the child. Treatise on the Diseases of Women The youngest midshipman acquires habits of command, the oldest captain practises the ennobling virtue of obedience; and these, we take it, form the alpha and omega of man's useful existence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 The boyhood of Phidias fell in a time of national revival, when under the influence of an ennobling political excitement, all the arts were quickened to a fresh, original, and splendid growth. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History I cannot see that it would be possible to replace the great and, on the whole, ennobling sentiment of patriotism by a broad international trades-unionism, which is practically what Marx proposes. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Life in a historical district is bound to have an ennobling effect on a man, especially if he feels knit to the past by lineal descent from the historical actors. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland We may go even farther and say with Mr. Grant Allen that everything high and ennobling in our nature springs directly from the fact of sex. Almost A Man So far from causing to Dante any self-reproach, he regarded his love for her as the most ennobling and purifying influence of his life—a sort of moral regeneration. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The belief in a moral governor of the universe seems to him as ennobling as all other beliefs 'put together,' and 'more precious.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Such is the so-called "ennobling influence of war"! War Letters of a Public-School Boy An association of scholars for the advancement of knowledge; association with the good is ennobling. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions But it was to him rather a depressing than an ennobling thought, that he was one of a class, fettered by the same disabilities, the same weaknesses, as millions of similar objects. Beside Still Waters Ye Elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—can ye not Accord me such a being? Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 They did not look upon labor as degrading, but as ennobling. My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field It is fortunate that we have in Colorado an opportunity of bringing to bear the restraining, purifying and ennobling influence of women upon politics. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Immense is the influence of lofty and ennobling dramatic pieces when supported by able and impassioned actors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 The worship of the Deity was blended with all that was ennobling and beautiful. Madame Roland, Makers of History “And you pursue this ennobling profession with an enthusiasm which does not stop short of murder!” The Dark Star I once heard Miss Harper say that she shared with Chateaubriand the ennobling sentiment that the salvation of one soul was of more value than the conquest of a kingdom. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century We believe that woman will give to the political parties of the country a moral temperament which will have a most beneficent and ennobling effect on politics. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III As to religion, he says, “There is no evidence that man- 116 - was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an omnipotent God.” Life of Charles Darwin The first time, it is a splendid, ennobling novelty. Life in a Tank Good mechanism is that which provides the channels wherein such energy can flow unimpeded, unobstructed by its own exuberance of output, vivifying the social structure, expanding and ennobling the life of mind. Liberalism How much more unselfish and ennobling a life than that of the feverish money-getter, with all his appliances of forge and factory, and export and import! A Romantic Young Lady In such commands there is something animating and ennobling. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity First make their bodies comfortable, then surround them with ennobling influences and examples, entertain them, arouse them, stimulate them, hold out the helping hand, and leave the rest to God. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others A greater number must be fitted to obtain work more lucrative in character and more ennobling in effect. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century But the character of the worship which is rendered to him and to others of his cult is far from ennobling when not actually revolting. India, Its Life and Thought Nor need I dwell at great length upon the delights and benefits afforded the members of families whose leisure is given to the study and practice of an art so ennobling as music. Music and Some Highly Musical People The Christian life is inspiring, ennobling, clothed in humility. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity But there are other indications of advancement in this particular still more encouraging, because they exhibit fruits of the most ennobling powers of the human understanding. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Yet, for student or layman, the study is instructive and ennobling. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Around the mother centered all that was ennobling and elevating in the first seven years of the child's life. History of Education Bitter though it may be, however, it is likewise ennobling. Progress and History And the gentleman who commanded the tented camp believed in the ennobling effects of liberty. The Magic World If deception and intrigue, the elements of political craft, be degrading to woman, can they be ennobling to man? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I We have every circumstance necessary: An analogous legend in the early history of Poland, the favored condition of the Jews, the well-attested reality of Saul Juditsch, and an extraordinary event, the ennobling of a Jew. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Great care is to be taken that nothing mean or vile shall be shown to children; their environments shall be beautiful and ennobling, though simple. History of Education He was thrown on the resources with which he was more familiar: those of an ennobling idea and of the exactions of self-devotion in its cause. Kościuszko A Biography The once familiar surroundings and the ennobling object of her visit inspired her with strangely tender feelings. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story She was naturally kind without consciousness of a mission, neither seeking to enslave nor enfranchise, but by a silent outflowing of goodness ennobling whatever company she was in. Apologia Diffidentis Alchemistic ethics presupposes that there is an education, an ennobling of the will. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts Take great care that the environment of the child is elevating, and allow only pure and ennobling examples to be reflected before him. History of Education That never will those on its breast See an ennobling sight, Drink of the feeling of quiet again. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold The oval curve has also the beauty derived from an outline of perfect grace and an association with ennobling conceptions. The Story of the Heavens Philosophers in all ages have known and taught the power of music in compelling ten thousand to the love of one, and so ennobling an infinite multitude in the glow of a common emotion. Apologia Diffidentis The love of nature is ever ennobling; it perhaps contributed to form the character of the future hero. A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851 He knew that the audience which would the more readily agree with him when he made an emotional case for the ennobling nature of war would be mainly of reclused women. Waiting for Daylight It can not be denied that a man who is trained from infancy amidst such scenes could acquire elegance of manner which those engrossed in the useful and ennobling employments of life rarely attain. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series If the savage breast is open to ennobling influences, it shall be soothed and charmed by the music of my discourse. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Once more he looked at Marian, tried twice to speak, but stood humbly mute before her—awed by her ennobling beauty. Where the Souls of Men are Calling He was sincerely and ardently devoted to the cause of Protection, to the interests of the farmer and the laboring man, to sound money, and to all the ennobling and refining activities of social life. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It almost seems, on the contrary, as if there were something ennobling in working for a public cause.' The Convert Lucy, who had been fidgeting about and trying to help with the packing, became suddenly solemn and dignified, while an ennobling excitement mounted to Harry's face. Virginia "Everything in the Prayer-Book is solemn, humble, reverential, as it respects man, and ennobling and glorifying as it respects God." The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness Are their chivalrous deeds to be less ennobling to the character of Southern men, than similar ones, springing from like motives, on the part of our armies? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Ye elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—Can ye not Accord me such a being? My Recollections of Lord Byron It has been advocated that the superstitions of the Highlanders, on the whole, were elevating and ennobling, which plea cannot well be sustained. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Under these circumstances love cannot thrive; under these circumstances the true and ennobling sense of brotherly kindness, and all those feelings which real religion prompt must languish. A World of Girls The Story of a School All the enrichment of the mind by study, all the love of man, all the love of God, all the ennobling of character which has come through the struggle after right and duty. The Gospel of the Hereafter It is easy to make too much of these early endeavours of a company of young men, exceptionally gifted though the reformers undoubtedly were, and inspired by an ennobling enthusiasm. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Here is the stuff of which Vikings were made, I thought, but there has been no refining or ennobling since those times. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Ye elements!—in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted—Can ye not Accord me such a Being? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Yes, his plan of life was plain, his work arose before him, alluring, ennobling, inspiring. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War I see that her love for them was probably the most powerful influence in ennobling her life here. The Gospel of the Hereafter Philosophy cannot emanate from life, and quicken life, without elevating and ennobling it, and will therefore always be incommensurable with life narrowly conceived. The Approach to Philosophy Many of the world's customs are not only harmless, but salutary, beautiful, ennobling, necessary to the very being of society. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training The fight is an ennobling one, when all is said: rejoice in it, because our children shall use the victory. From a Cornish Window A New Edition If it lacks the high message it is still an inspiration, for beauty is always ennobling to the appreciative. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide And she has gone into a life where that ennobling is God's chief aim for her. The Gospel of the Hereafter We realize in its broadest sense the ennobling influence of universal education. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch He found there a great variety of scenery, from the sweet and peaceful to the ennobling and grand. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Make that your aim, and freshness, buoyancy, enthusiasm, the ennobling of everything in this world, and the bending of all to be contributory of it, will gladden your days. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John When the war is over 90we must apply the wisdom which we have acquired in purging and ennobling the life of the world. In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 In Tosca especially he has shown the ennobling influence of music over an otherwise repulsive theme. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The consciousness of liberty is an ennobling element in human nature. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch We shall find in them nothing epic, nothing inventive on a grand scale: the transfiguring, ennobling vision of the greatest creators was denied them. Renée Mauperin Their voices mingled until they almost sounded like one rich and perfect note, as they sang of love which is undying and self-sacrifice which is ennobling. A Young Mutineer No man ever felt the need of a high and ennobling religion more thoroughly than this powerful and fervid teacher, who, by the way, did not escape the brand of 'atheist.' Fragments of science, V. 1-2 From this one would be inclined to suppose that precious stones actually undergo an ennobling process in the warm soil of the south. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Whatever is good and pure and ennobling is of God; whatever is evil, erroneous, degrading, is from man's misconception of Him. The Right Knock A Story He said humbly that he'd never had her ennobling influence nor dreamed that she existed. The Pirates of Ersatz It is indeed a labor, but a labor peculiarly blest for its manly pursuits and ennobling mental exercises. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm There is something ennobling in the triumph of Mind over Matter. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 They seemed so patriotic, you know, so sort of ennobling, and so convincing, as to the merits of the tariff controversy!” Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Mentally she should read literature of a lofty and ennobling character. Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English A sterner Protestantism was invigorating and ennobling life by its morality, its seriousness, its intense conviction of God. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 It is a compass by which to steer in the present struggle for the emancipation of the proletariat, who cannot, fortunately, emancipate themselves without emancipating and ennobling all mankind. Socialism: Positive and Negative Democritus looked to the soul as the ennobling part of man; even beauty, without understanding, partook of animalism. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 We wonder how many sovereigns living in George's time the world could have spared without a pang of regret if by the sacrifice it could secure for men's ennobling delight the immortal music of Handel. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II But the principles and purposes with which they started, and to which they kept, did not succeed in purifying and ennobling all their parliamentary strategy and political conduct. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I The Stoic ingredient; revelation of the Universal, and ennobling of Individual. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus This consciousness of the great part that he and his class are called to play on the world's stage is the most uplifting and ennobling influence that can enter the life of a workingman. Socialism: Positive and Negative “We have found the volume deeply interesting—its characters are well drawn, while its tone and sentiments are well calculated to exert a purifying and ennobling influence upon all who read it.” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver So far is it from being only a degrading superstition in those who believe that mortals like themselves p. 291can predict the future, that it seems, on the contrary ennobling. The Gypsies Under the influence of this, each soldier has entertained an ennobling opinion of himself, and has supposed that he would be received in the character which such a motive impressed on him. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It is old, very old, this terrace, and it has witnessed many terrible scenes, fire and slaughter and religious strife, but it has also seen more that is ennobling and inspiring. From a Terrace in Prague Of this older view much still survives, and much that is ennobling. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Now, with the chilly and uncompromising hand of forty clutching at her, pain was always with her—not ennobling, chastening pain, but the pain of those who, having been overfull, must henceforth go empty. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa But in place of pleasurable sensations and ennobling thoughts, are an indescribable array of aches, pains, weaknesses, irritations, and nameless distresses of body, with dreamy vagaries, fitful impulses, and morbid sentimentalities of mind. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Yet, little by little, the ennobling aspect of human beauty becomes a familiar perception, is wrought into a habit, is transmitted as an inheritance. The Chief End of Man But suppose that, instead of a magnitude of dollars as the object, it be doing good and making salutary impression and raising this sunken world, how much more ennobling! The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Apart from this it is a high and ennobling ideal truly fitted for a community of saints. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Thy soul is adorned by the most ennobling qualities of humanity. History of the Moors of Spain Other scenes there were in which the cunning damsel betrayed Paul into the belief that he was an ennobling and lofty influence in her life. Despair's Last Journey Without the ennobling power of our women we can never be a great and noble race. Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. The complement to all this generous and ennobling effort is the elevation of the black woman. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time And if religion be defined to be morality as taught in the lives of the holiest servants of mankind, in what do we differ essentially from the ennobling conceptions of Auguste Comte? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles He has been followed by a host of disciples, to whom his books have come as an inspiration and ennobling impulse. My Studio Neighbors Only when thus united with one's fellows in a spirited and ennobling enterprise can one endure their fellowship. The Moral Economy Everywhere the Scottish burgess and the Scottish peasant felt himself called to deal, individually and immediately, with Christianity and the divine; and everywhere the contact was ennobling. John Knox When we thus analyse the suffragette outburst we see that it is really compounded out of quite varied elements: a conventionally respectable element, a rowdy element, and an ennobling element. The Task of Social Hygiene What has philosophy, creed or council to say to that high and ennobling conception? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles There is the relation something very human, something very ennobling. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Republicanism, on the other hand, holds fast to everything that is ennobling and elevating in its history. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. If he be a sane, strong, morally high-bred man, the effect will be ennobling; it will certainly not darken the face of nature for him. The Essentials of Spirituality She read ennobling works of poetry and counsel. Hubert's Wife A Story for You With such experiences, and a discipline so purifying and ennobling, we can but anticipate a still higher and holier future, for the women of our time. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Other enjoyments, often cloy; but the heavenly pleasure, secured by virtuous industry and benevolence, while it satisfies, at the time, awakens fresh desires for so ennobling a good. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School But his favourite figure is the "long-tailed simile," or, as it is better called, the decorative comparison, used for its ennobling, rather than for its elucidating virtue. Milton As if conscious of the power of ennobling others, some have selected them from the lowest classes, whom, having elevated into divinities, they have addressed in the language of poetical devotion. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 I have not merit enough to boast that I am proud, for pride has always something ennobling about it: but I was vain, and vanity enabled me to put on the appearance of courage. Rattlin the Reefer Her cheeks reddened as they went out, for it hurt her pride that Prescott should see her there—a mere clerk, honest and ennobling though she knew work to be. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond We admired their substantial church and comfortable homes, and saw in them, and in the farms, tangible evidence of the power of Christian Missions to elevate and bless those who come under their ennobling influences. By Canoe and Dog-Train Will they look on while the Repeal movement—the educating, the ennobling, the sacred effort for liberty—is superseded by the buzz of assassination and vengeance? Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry There is no point upon which His hallowing and ennobling grace can lay hold in your hearts without such desire. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. These thousands of people were met for a purpose in itself ennobling because unselfish. Brother Copas Whatsoever may be thought of the effect of this connection with royalty, in ennobling an ancient and loyal race, the marriage produced a lasting influence on the fortunes of the family. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. There is no trade more ennobling than home building. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations That this study often degenerated into a mere useless cramming of unintelligible ideas is easily understood, and its effects were in many cases the reverse of ennobling. Rabbi and Priest A Story This whole section appears to me to be a wonderful revelation of his prison thoughts, an example of what we may call the ennobling power of a passionate enthusiasm for Christ. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. And such works," said Jacobi, "operate ennoblingly on life in times of peace. The Home It was a miserable way to die, nothing to come out of it, no ennobling sacrifice demanding it to lift a man's name beyond his day. Trail's End Doctor Devine says, "Home is not a boarding-house, but a complex of relations, physical and spiritual, which were never more beautiful, more enduring or more ennobling than in the modern family." The Family and it's Members The unravelling of God's Word has been from time immemorial regarded as the greatest need, the most ennobling occupation of man—a work commanded by God. Rabbi and Priest A Story But apart from the supreme satisfaction of winning, the effort required to accomplish anything is ennobling, and, if there were no other success it would be its own reward. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success But pray, could not one spend some weeks or years in the solitude of this vast wilderness with other employments than these—employments perfectly sweet, innocent, and ennobling? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Clearing away the crust of ancient superstition, we may still find in Edwards' writings a system of morality as ennobling, and a theory of the universe as elevated, as can be discovered in any theology. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) There must be something ennobling in the blacksmith calling. Watch Yourself Go By This is no cold and cheerless philosophy; it is an elevating and ennobling ideal which may console him in his afflictions and teach him how to live and how to die. The Necessity of Atheism Though his own political views changed, Gladstone always paid tribute to the moral influence which Peel had exercised in political life, purifying its practices and ennobling its traditions. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies A people without a lofty and ennobling object is sure to fall into decay. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen is a national school of patriotism, and the healthy spirit of its plays has an ennobling effect on the people. Denmark "You have taught me that there is no degradation in labor, pursued for fair and right ends, and that where the end is noble, the labor becomes ennobling." Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest "Thus was the greatest and most ennobling, perhaps, of scientific truths—a truth not less ennobling to religion than to science—forced in coming before the world, to sneak and crawl." The Necessity of Atheism The consciousness of a noble action is itself ennobling. The Young Duke He was content with himself, which was rarely the case, and remembered nothing of his career but its distinction, and the ennobling sense of having done his duty. Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography Place a Forum or an Acropolis in its centre, and the effect of the metropolitan mass, which now has neither head nor heart, instead of being stupefying, would be ennobling. Tancred Or, The New Crusade To its lip he holds the purest ichors of existence; with ennobling draughts of awe, pity, sympathy, and joy, he quickens its blood and strengthens its vital assimilations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 He will join the other great leaders in their belief that "Economic development, patriotism, and the ennobling of all human souls alone can lead to freedom." Winning a Cause World War Stories Alone, and no longer surrounded with that splendour which had hitherto made solitude precious, life seemed stripped of all its ennobling spirit. The Young Duke Inducements should therefore be held out to every branch of society, that the ennobling idea of home may be realized in every bosom. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 Poland also found an apostle and a queen in the sister of the Duke of Bohemia, and who revealed to the Sarmatian Micislas the ennobling mysteries of Sinai and of Calvary. Tancred Or, The New Crusade No doubt," said he, "it is as you say, but the fairest and most ennobling thing this life can boast is the triumph of the mind over all external influences. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag And with her death, its most touching and ennobling influence faded from Pope's life. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series I venture, Don Quixote has the same, and marks the appearance of a gentleman in literature, since which day that person has been a recurring, ennobling presence on the pages of fiction and poetry. A Hero and Some Other Folks The style is pure and ennobling, and while our sympathies may be touched, we are at the same time fascinated and entertained, from the first page to the last. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 You propose for their conduct the least ennobling of all impulses. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Labor is noble and ennobling, not a disgrace nor a misfortune, 242-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry For a deep, ennobling love, or a new-born, exalted faith, the spirit and will are capable of almost any transformation. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post He sincerely hopes that as a consequence a number of souls will enter the Cause and be inspired by its divine teachings and ennobling spirit. Dawn of a New Day The former should never exist without the ennobling companionship and clarifying mixture of the latter. The Friendships of Women He often took refuge in these exciting and ennobling visions, to maintain himself when he underwent the ceremony of entering a great house. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Labor, when rightly understood, is both noble and ennobling, and intended to develop man's moral and spiritual nature, and not to be deemed a disgrace or a misfortune. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It is an ennobling thing to think that God is more in the soul of man than He is in aught else outside of Himself. Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings He wondered what Irene would think of this "ennobling" business in the drab days of disillusionment that must soon sweep down upon them. The Cow Puncher For a long series of years," Steffens writes, "she lived one life with her brother, even ennobling and exalting him by her presence. The Friendships of Women Here was a great idea; exciting and ennobling. Tancred Or, The New Crusade These are to him topics of the profoundest interest, and the most ennobling and refining contemplation. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Dear Margaret! that "pearl-name" Is thine—and may it be The synonym of goodness, Of truth and purity, And all ennobling graces Exemplified in thee. Poems Vol. IV At first thought it would appear difficult to tell what impulses could move persons to undertake, as many constantly have undertaken, a crusade against a faith so dear to man, so ennobling to his nature. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Thy celestial inspiration will dominate the remainder of my life, public as well as private, and preside over my progress towards perfection, purifying my sentiments, ennobling my thoughts, and elevating my conduct. The Friendships of Women Nay, even if a Plato or a Ruskin leave not one single dogma consciously grasped by the student's faith, they have, nevertheless, been in the highest degree invigorating and ennobling company. Platform Monologues All men desire distinction, and feel the need of some ennobling object in life. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Those grand ennobling and enduring virtues all may claim; Of each may it be said, of the great multitude: Oh that my life were more like such an one of blessed fame! Poems Vol. IV Britz, recognizing instinctively the genuineness of the woman's love, passed over its ennobling aspect, to find therein a potent influence for the solution of the crime with which he was engaged. The Substitute Prisoner His mind gave hospitable welcome to each new fact disclosed by science, to all generous hopes for human refinement and ennobling ideals, while his discernment was keen to detect false sentiment or flashy sophisms. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter What had been a kind of aimless licence became the most ennobling principle by which men are exalted to a state of self-respect and mutual reverence. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Our warehouses and even our factories might become imposing objects if appropriately conceived, for is not labor ennobling? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 The ennobling element of the belief in a future life is beyond the attack, or rather is strengthened by the aid, of science. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists His poetry is once more the refining element, beautifying the ugly, ennobling the mean, a vein of gold in the quartz. The Growth of English Drama From it the people are to receive their inspiration for that which is pure, exalted and ennobling. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro |
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