She told herself that Mademoiselle Cormon would be very lucky to secure a husband in a young man of twenty-three, full of
talent, who would always be an honor to his family and the neighborhood; at the same time the obstacles which her son's want of fortune and Mademoiselle Cormon's age presented to the marriage seemed to her almost insurmountable; she could think of nothing but patience as being able to vanquish them.
I wish I had a talent to live for, if it would do as much for me as it does for them.
But they are simple, sensible creatures, full of talent, and all sorts of fine things.
This fine talent is neglected nowadays, and considered old-fashioned, which is a sad mistake, and one that I don't mean to make in bringing up my girl.
It need not interfere with any talent you may possess, but it is a necessary part of your training, and I hope that you will set about it at once, now that you are well and strong.
Man of talent and extreme piety,'" prompted Gaudron.
The place of the late worthy de la Billardiere is vacant; my son-in- law, Monsieur Baudoyer, a man of consummate talent and extreme piety--'" After looking at Monsieur Gaudron, who was reflecting, he added, "'will be very glad if he gets it.
You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service to which your talent and your taste invite you, the love of men and the hope of fame.
The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
Thus we see that the Constitution provides that our negotiations for treaties shall have every advantage which can be derived from
talents, information, integrity, and deliberate investigations, on the one hand, and from secrecy and despatch on the other.
To invent good stories, and to tell them well, are possibly very rare
talents, and yet I have observed few persons who have scrupled to aim at both: and if we examine the romances and novels with which the world abounds, I think we may fairly conclude, that most of the authors would not have attempted to show their teeth (if the expression may be allowed me) in any other way of writing; nor could indeed have strung together a dozen sentences on any other subject whatever.
Leo Hunter--is proud to number among her acquaintance all those who have rendered themselves celebrated by their works and
talents.
