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  • Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
  • He ennobled everything he touched with his brush or his pencil.
  • In a strange way she seemed ennobled by the grief she had experienced.
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • The recently ennobled Lord Farmer has vivid memories of childhood. Times, Sunday Times
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  • He was ennobled in 1774 and put in charge of irregular forces.
  • It still gratifies us today to read George Orwell: we feel ennobled by him.
  • The total effect of Aristofie's thought is to ennoble humanity and to increase personal responsibility.
  • I certainly believe that the blogosphere should advance and ennoble the public debate - not coarsen it.
  • Ye have known the deeds that have raised this war between me and you, sons of Adnan; and if I do not appease myself among you, never may I be called ennobled in my parents! Antar :
  • The script is by Julian Fellowes, probably the first Oscar-winning writer to have been ennobled — he was made a life peer by being given a barony in the honors list published in November. Peerless Titles
  • a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
  • We know that neither success nor suffering ennobles people.
  • Is the foregoing family a branch of that of Herefordshire, now ennobled; or does it come down from one of the name anterior to the time when such earldom was made patent, viz. from Sir Richard Harley, 28 Edward I.: whose armorial bearings, according to one annalist, is mentioned as _Or, bend cotized sable_? Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • In 1789 half of the cahiers of the nobility demanded the end to ennoblement through venal offices.
  • We live by telling our own story, and that story can either ennoble us or demean us.
  • “No, by Saint Mary,” said another; “he is a follower of the arch-fiend and ennobled clown Halbert Glendinning, who takes the style of Avenel — once a church-vassal, now a pillager of the church.” The Abbot
  • To walk on another world, or even to make the attempt, would ennoble every member of the human race.
  • Van Dyck's portraits helped to ennoble many of the plutocrats. Notice of Arrival
  • Princess Carissa would marry him at a private assembly afterwards, as soon as the new King publicly ennobled him.
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy! Biographical Essays
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • Political patronage in appointments confers honour, not wisdom, on those ennobled. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was ennobled by the Emperor of Austria, allowing him to use the honorific ‘Ritter von’ before his surname.
  • Then, we embodying the generosity and engagement that pulsates at the heart of Jewish tradition, this day will truly be a portal to a Shabbat LaShem, a Sabbath of the Lord, and we will be living the kind of covenanted community that can ennoble humanity and all creation. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Possessing And Releasing
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
  • He does not reflect much on how a double occupation would complicate and perhaps ennoble resistance. They All Knew They Were Right
  • The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. 
  • Either human life is ennobled by the dangers and rewards of freedom or we are better off when governments baby-proof reality and shepherd us to the good. Enter Stage Right
  • The reward for his family was ennoblement and the right to exploit the canal as a fief with rights of seigneurial jurisdiction.
  • He has this theory that suffering can ennoble a person's character.
  • Most religions and some of the more grouchy philosophers teach that suffering ennobles us - it makes us better people.
  • It has been estimated that in the period 1774 to 1789, a total of 2,477 men were ennobled, and the numbers, if anything, were rising slightly directly before the Revolution.
  • There the word "autumn" is almost unknown; and though there is a dignity in the Latin word ennobled by our orators and poets, there is no one with a sense of style who will not applaud the choice of America. American Sketches 1908
  • Aurore now found herself in the hands of a woman of the people, ennobled for a time by beauty and a true affection, but sinking, her good inspiration gone, into the bitterest ill-temper and most vulgar uncharity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
  • Piranesi was very much of the artisan class, although he was ennobled by the Pope in 1767.
  • But given a chance to become a habit, the exhilarating experience of freedom enriches and ennobles people.
  • Sholom Aleichem is known as the Jewish Mark Twain, but Bikel enlarges and ennobles the man in ways that turn the world's greatest Yiddish writer into the living embodiment of Huckleberry Finn -- keenly observing the end of the 19th Century in Europe and Russia, the dawn of Jewish life in America, and the incremental death of Yiddish culture that was foreshadowed in that migration. Thane Rosenbaum: Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • Lords of Appeal in Ordinary - Law Lords - receive life baronies on appointment unless they are already ennobled.
  • The name of Banff, by which the family was afterwards ennobled, seems to be derived from the ancient thanedom of Boyne.
  • As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennobles us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us.
  • Political patronage in appointments confers honour, not wisdom, on those ennobled. Times, Sunday Times
  • This Parisian early prototype, however, lacked the spicy seasonings that ennoble the classic cocktail we know today. The Bloody Mary Makeover
  • And what they went through and what they suffered kind of ennobles us all.
  • I was frankly astonished when this gentleman was ennobled.
  • You can, I suppose, dismiss that message as purest Victorian hypocrisy, but to listen to the G-Minor Mass and the Fifth Symphony is to know that the greathearted genius who made them was the truest of believers in the power of art to uplift and ennoble the souls of his fellow men. How Can Skeptics Make Convincing Religious Art?
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • He felt dizzy, felt simultaneously small and huge, powerful and powerless, dwarfed and ennobled by the might and manageableness of things. THE WOUNDED SKY
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • He was coal and wool joined by a stately hyphen and ennobled by five coronets.
  • For some this preventive action has an equivalent moral authority to the great campaigns for civic reform which ennobled the twentieth century throughout the world.
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • Cilea's alternately swooning, scintillating and thundering score does much to ennoble the overwrought claptrap of the opera's libretto. Review: Washington Concert Opera's 'Adriana Lecouvreur' at Lisner Auditorium
  • They believe in the power of the Holy Spirit to correct and ennoble. John Shore: Why Pastors Struggle With Confronting Domestic Violence
  • For Black, the high point of his life's work came in 2001 when he was ennobled after renouncing his Canadian citizenship.
  • It may have been with the idea of consoling her that Charles, on 29 December, 1429, ennobled the Maid and all her family, who henceforward, from the lilies on their coat of arms, were known by the name of Du Lis. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • In a strange way she seemed ennobled by the grief she had experienced.
  • In a strange way she seemed ennobled by her grief.
  • It ennobled the tongue, and long before there was a Hamlet or a Lear. David Teems: The Other English William
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • There is nothing in its character, its manifold wrongs, its wretched results, and especially its influence on the class who claim to be 'ennobled' by Struggles for Freedom; or The Life of James Watkins, Formerly a Slave in Maryland, U. S.; in Which is Detailed a Graphic Account of His Extraordinary Escape from Slavery, Notices of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Sentiments of American Divines on the Subject
  • The recently ennobled Lord Farmer has vivid memories of childhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speaker Martin, who sought desperately to cover up the MPs 'expenses scandal, has just been' ennobled '; and Jacqui Smith, whose huge expenses quite dwarfed the meagre cost of her husband's porn movies, will soon add lustre to the red benches. OpenDemocracy
  • And he was ennobled, as well, by the loftiness of thought and beauty he found in the books. Chapter 8
  • Dedicated in 1921 as a monument to World War I's common soldier, the Tomb ennobles the common people of a democratic society.
  • When he was ennobled in 1964, someone remarked he should take the title Lord Corridor of Power.
  • Installed at Versailles in 1745, she was ennobled as Marquise de Pompadour, and for 20 years swayed state policy, appointing her own favourites.
  • I cannot conclude these opinions without paying tribute to the talents of my illustrious country-women; who, unpatronized by the courts, and unprotected by the powerful, persevere in the paths of literature, and ennoble themselves by the unperishable lustre of MENTAL PRE-EMINENCE! Sappho and Phaon
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • The very sight of Loch Lomond ennobles the spirit of all who behold it, even if they're messing it up.
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • Subsequently, Pastorella is revealed to be the offspring of her secret marriage with Beallamoure, a revelation that suddenly ennobles the socially hazardous bond between the shepherdess Pastorella and the courtly Calidore.
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • They called themselves 'Greville', which suggested Norman blood, and, by the end of the sixteenth century, the family had been ennobled by the crown with the title Lord Brooke. 'Aristocrats'
  • Impact the values needed by leaders and managers to motivate, inspire and ennoble their people.
  • He has this theory that suffering can ennoble a person's character.
  • In its subject matter as well as its method, physics ennobles the mind by directing it to the permanent order of the world.
  • Mountbatten's title was therefore a courtesy one until he was ennobled in 1946 as Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • Respect for that which is higher is transformative because it instantly ennobles and dignifies our separate personalities. Andrew Z. Cohen: Spiritual Practice Is Spirit Lived
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • On the last occasion the king ennobled him, As prime minister he was most zealous in establishing the supremacy of the State over the Church, and in abolishing the privileges of the nobility together with feudalism, He restricted the jurisdiction of the bishops, impeded the last increment of the so-called mortmain, and reduced the taxes belonging to the chancery of the Roman Curia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. 
  • Meanwhile - long before any of his music appeared in print - he was ennobled and, in 1702, made Chevalier de l' Ordre de Latran.
  • The family was ennobled and, in 1546 attained a peak of prosperity.
  • A couple of months ago, when the newspaper publisher Conrad Black became a member of Britain’s House of Lords, his induction was called an investiture as well as an ennoblement. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • The work will be an output of heroism, and it will ennoble even those who will not know of it. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • It was housed in a Carnegie Library, which made you feel good; there's something about drinking within sight of Ionic columns that ennobles the effort.
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • By thus declaring himself the follower of so fine a craftsman, Dante suggests, he hopes to "ennoble" his own undertaking. Dante Alighieri
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • But at the same time it would kind of invalidate the whole series 'intent - choosing to demure about the hard, bloody climax doesn't pay proper respect to the costly sacrifices of sexual responsibilism that the books so ennoble. Gawker
  • I can also urge you to live now in the knowledge that your son's passing ennobles our nation, just as I trust it will now ennoble you.
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennoble us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us. CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2005
  • Imagination, not political courage or piety, is what finally ennobles the book: We become less and less interested in the anti-Southern, antisentimental, antiaristocratic, anti-everything-under-the-sun elements…and more and more concerned with its affirmations, which is to say we become more and more concerned with Jim. Mark Twain
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • The house also has aged - it looks small and poverty-stricken despite its attempts at ennoblement, and has not been maintained.
  • Only after two years' delay was her favourite admitted to the Privy Council, and he was not ennobled as Earl of Leicester until 1564.
  • In designating the latter as "foreknown" by God, the primary idea is not to ennoble the creature, but rather to bring to light the wisdom and power of God. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
  • Kevin Costner's character, Lt. Dunbar, appears to be the only decent White in the movie, apart from his love interest, who is a White captive among the Indians, and thereby 'ennobled' by the Indians 'benevolent influence. Vanishing American
  • Political patronage in appointments confers honour, not wisdom, on those ennobled. Times, Sunday Times
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • The recently ennobled Lord Farmer has vivid memories of childhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • The music serves to uplift, beautify, and ennoble some other action taking place, and that action itself holds primacy over the music itself. The Reform is Being Reformed
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that,Its use is for life, Its aim is not beauty but goodness. 
  • Love is understanding, said the poet of Heaven and Hell, and love ennobled through renunciant years shall at the last encompass the world. Apologia Diffidentis
  • How many Norman robbers got their blood ennobled, and how many Saxon nobles got theirs plebeianized by the Battle of Hastings; and how difficult it would be for any of us to say from which we descended -- the Britons or the Saxons, the Danes or the Normans; or in what particular action our ancestors were the victors or the vanquished, and became ennobled or plebeianized by the thousand accidents which influence the fate of battles. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • It prettifies revolution, ennobles change, and gives disruption credibility.
  • The Smiths are a synopsis of pain, a resolution - awkwardness and alienation ennobled, given poise.
  • When he was ennobled in 1964, someone remarked he should take the title Lord Corridor of Power.
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • It still gratifies us today to read George Orwell: we feel ennobled by him.
  • Provincial life was left to the dominance of the ennobled office-holders of the sovereign courts.
  • But cultured Germans did believe that art ennobled a people, and I would like to believe it too.
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • He has this theory that suffering can ennoble a person's character.

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