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It's not the kind of thing that a man would be proud of.
a handsome, fine-looking man it made him proud to see.
Bartók was a proud man and did not easily accept charity.
“ Intercession had been made by Cotton Mather for the advancement of William Stoughton, a man of cold affections, proud, self-willed and covetous of distinction .” Apparently Mather saw in Stoughton an ally for church-related matters.
Epictetus said remaining abstinent in the face of temptation was a victory for which a man could be proud.
Burnet reflects unfavourably upon him, calls him a proud and covetous man, and declares:
When he is the only man not hired, Terry openly confronts Friendly, proclaiming that he is proud of what he did.
John Edward Lloyd gave the following assessment of Llywelyn: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends ; his patriotic statemanship will always entitle him to wear the proud style of Llywelyn the Great.
For example, Saturninus ' " How well the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts " ( 1. 1. 46 ); Tamora's vow to slaughter the Andronici at 1. 1. 450 – 455 ( thus absolving Saturninus from any involvement ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 1 ; Aaron's " Ay, and as good as Saturninus may " ( 2. 1. 91 ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 3 ; Tamora's " Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,/ And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower " ( 2. 3. 190 – 191 ); Aaron's two asides in 3. 1 ( ll. 187 – 190 and 201 – 202 ); Lucius ' " Now will I to the Goths and raise a power ,/ To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine " ( 3. 1. 298 – 299 ); Marcus ' " O, heavens, can you hear a good man groan " speech ( 4. 1. 122 – 129 ); Young Lucius ' asides in 4. 2 ( ll. 6 and 8 – 9 ); Aaron's " Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies ,/ There to dispose this treasure in mine arms ,/ And secretly to greet the Empress ' friends " ( 4. 2. 172 – 174 ); and Tamora's " Now will I to that old Andronicus ,/ And temper him with all the art I have ,/ To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths " ( 4. 4. 107 – 109 ).
Henry instead appointed Poppo, Bishop of Brixen in Tyrol, a proud man of distinguished learning who had taken part in the Synod of Sutri.
On March 29, 2010, Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin came out publicly in a post on his official web site by stating, " I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.
: Now the man is thought to be proud who thinks himself worthy of great things, being worthy of them ; for he who does so beyond his deserts is a fool, but no virtuous man is foolish or silly.
The proud man, then, is the man we have described.
Conein described Minh as a " very proud man " who had lost face by turning up at the palace, ready to claim victory, only to find an empty building.
Elphin becomes a very proud man and that gets him in trouble with the king, but his wonderful son Taliesin saves him.
The lyrics appear with permission from the Author :( 1st verse ): Harbor of a thousand ships / Forger of a nation's fleet / Gateway to the New World / Where ocean and river meet /( chorus ): Strength wrought from steel / And a people's fortitude / Such is the timeless legacy / Of a place called Newport News /( 2nd verse ): Nestled in a blessed land / Gifted with a special view / Forever home for ev ' ry man / With a spirit proud and true /( repeat chorus to fade )
Edna tells him that he must be proud of him, as black or white the fact is that he was the man who brought the first bale of cotton that year, and that he should never forget this.
Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid describes Wulfhere as " a man of proud mind, and insatiable will ".
As a man, he was secretive, solitary, irritable, proud of his own achievements ( more as a theorist than as a composer ), brusque with those who contradicted him, and quick to anger.
But Parnell, a proud and passionate man, refused, saying, " If I go, I go forever ".
He pleaded during his speech, " Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats!
He was a proud man, who despite falling upon hard times was refusing to go to the poor house.

proud and prestige
“ No other type of intellectual could compete with them in popularity, no creative artists existed to challenge their prestige at the courts of phil-Hellenic Emperors, and though the sophists often show jealousy of the philosophers, philosophy without eloquence was nowhere .” Not only were the wealthy citizens encouraging their sons to follow the sophistic profession, but nobles were more than proud to claim relation with celebrated sophists.
His attitude towards the IHP students was one of ambivalence: on the one hand, Dr. Samuels distrusted the kids ( and had a particularly antagonistic relationship with Dennis, and tried to avoid Eric ), but at the same time he was proud of their achievements and valued the prestige they brought to the school.

proud and would
But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.
Other visual and aural cues are also taken from film noir, in ‘ Pierrot Le Fou ’ for instance, Spike battles an enraged homicidal clown across a fairground, accompanied by lighting and camera angles any film noir would be proud of.
" I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ," he said on a visit to Germany, adding: " I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower.
Nonviolence was key to Edison's moral views, and when asked to serve as a naval consultant for World War I, he specified he would work only on defensive weapons and later noted, " I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers — a people late regem belloque superbum — kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Libya's downfall.
Dunphy was proud of the fact that Brockman was based on him and would tell people that he was Kent Brockman.
Only then is it a thriller — one that Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to make.
He was proud to say it would be the largest planned community in the country, his " Blueprint of the Future ", and its purpose was to bring organized development to the projected rapid growth of the area.
Peter told May why he became Spider-Man, and May told him that Ben would be proud of him for doing so.
If I may say so, Mrs Malaprop would have been proud of him.
Jack would later write, " I'm proud to be a Mormon.
" At the ceremony, Gregg Allman talked about his brother Duane, saying: " It happens to be today would have been his 62nd birthday and I'm sure he's looking down on this and is really proud of us.
The proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, and one made the remark " It would puzzle a monkey to climb that "; as the species had no existing popular name, first ' monkey puzzler ', then ' monkey puzzle ' stuck.
" Jim Perdue said his father would be proud of Perdue School accomplishments.
The reason why a proud philistinism is emphasised is twofold: SRs, with their SR-based self-confidence were supposedly unembarrassed to admit disliking ballet, opera, modern art, and James Joyce ; most public intellectuals of the 1970s and the 1980s were left-wing, hence aligning with left-wing intelligentsia cultural values would be anathematic to staunchly Tory Sloanes.
Although the town's citizens were eager and proud to take part in the November Uprising, they worried that their city, as in every previous war, would be destroyed.
But his shy, proud nature was not fitted to gain patients, and the Leipzig doctors would not recommend one who was not a Leipzig graduate.

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