eminency

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He says—“Sure I am that a Rose is the sweetest of flowers, and a Cross accounted the sacredest of forms and figures, so that much of eminency must he imported in their composition.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

All this is important in view of the pre- eminency of Ts'in when the time came, 400 years later, to abolish the meticulous feudal system altogether.

From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper

A man of little education; bred in camps; yet of a proud natural eminency, and rugged nobleness of genius and mind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas

This rhetoric, or power to fix the momentary eminency of an object,—so remarkable in Burke, in Byron, in Carlyle,—the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Consider Hobbes: "The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from the sudden conception of eminency in ourselves by comparison with the inferiority of others, or with our own formerly."

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)