But Chatham could not brook the thought of a step which implied submission to the " natural enemy " whom it had been the main object of his life to humble, and he declaimed for a considerable time, though with diminished vigour, against the motion.

He is indeed far below Bossuet, whose robust and sublime genius had no rival in that age ; he does not equal Bourdaloue in earnestness of thought and vigour of expression ; nor can he rival the philosophical depth or the insinuating and impressive eloquence of Jean-Baptiste Massillon.

But they have also most obvious defects: they are unquestionably the books of an old man who had thought much as well as spoken and written often on the themes he discusses, yet who had finally put his material together in haste at a time when his mind had lost, if not its dialectic vigour, yet its freshness and its sense of proportion ; and who had been so accustomed to amplify the single stages of his argument that he had forgotten how much they needed to be reduced to scale and to be built into an organic whole.

As a religious teacher, literary critic, historian and jurist, Harrison took a prominent part in the life of his time, and his writings, though often violently controversial on political, religious and social subjects, and in their judgment and historical perspective characterized by a modern Radical point of view, are those of an accomplished scholar, and of one whose wide knowledge of literature was combined with independence of thought and admirable vigour of style.

And the doctrines of the brilliant series of war school commandants, Maillard, Langlois, Bonnal, Foch, had been challenged, not only by the German school, but also since about 1911 by a new school of thought within the French army itself, which, under the inspiration of General Loiseau de Grandmaison, criticized them as lacking in vigour and offensive spirit, and conducing to needless dispersion of force.

His writings show a deep love of nature, art and humanity, and are marked by vigour of thought, sincerity of feeling, and grace and finish of style.

The name is thought to derive from the colloquial English word " vim " which has the same meaning as the Latin vis, vim (" force ", " vigour ").

The vigour of the assault wrought terror and confusion amongst the Turks, and by nightfall the battle was won.

He achieved further attention when his drawings were exhibited in the British Art Section of the St. Louis Exposition and the Paris International Exhibition, and in 1903 he won a silver medal at the National Competition of Schools of Art, where the judges, who included Walter Crane and Byam Shaw, praised his " remarkable sense of colour and great vigour of conception.

His principal objective in assuming the purple appeared to be the restoration and defence of the Rhine frontier and the surrounding area, a task that he approached with vigour, earning the admiration of the ancient authors, who declared that he restored the security that the provinces had enjoyed in the past.

He returned from his travels much improved, and again commenced his labors with vigour and enthusiasm.

Alexander Pope implied the architecture is rather dull, lacking either the vigour of the baroque style which was fading from fashion at the time, or the austere grandeur of the Palladian style which was just coming into vogue.

And plants here bloom more luxuriantly and more perfectly with a natural vigour that knows no exhaustion and fears no poverty, a vigour that has disappeared from our continent.

He continued to lecture and to write with freshness and vigour, and on his 90th birthday received from all parts of Germany good wishes and tokens of affection.

The oil sketches of The Leaping Horse and The Hay Wain, for example, convey a vigour and expressiveness missing from Constable's finished paintings of the same subjects.

The evolution from the Dickson court ( 1984 – 90 ) through to the Lamer court ( 1990 – 2000 ) witnessed a continuing vigour in the protection of civil liberties.

Many seabirds show remarkable site fidelity, returning to the same burrow, nest or site for many years, and they will defend that site from rivals with great vigour.

Tippett's music derives much of its vigour, drive and energy from his contrapuntal writing.

* Freedom from thirst and hunger – by ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigour.

Cross-pollination may have resulted from such close proximity, with the genetic distance between the two parents imparting hybrid vigour leading to the viticultural selection of a diverse range of offspring from this cross ( which may, nevertheless, have also resulted from deliberate human intervention ).

He is said to have inherited his vigour and eloquence from his father, a Genovese grocer who had married a Frenchwoman named Massabie.

The fine gentleman of the play, drinking his mistress's health in Nantes brandy from six in the morning to the time he waddled upon the stage in the evening, had toasted himself up to such a pitch of vigour, I confess I once gave Amanda for gone.

He lectured on moral philosophy at the Royal Institution for three seasons, from 1804 to 1806 ; and treated his subject with such vigour and liveliness that the London world crowded to Albemarle Street to hear him.

Just after the collapse of the South Sea Bubble, for which he was partly responsible but from which he did not profit, the earl was defending his government with customary vigour and panache in House of Lords on 4 February 1721 when he was taken ill with a violent headache.

Ailred says ( but this may be a literary device ) that this order of battle was decided at the last minute ; David had intended to attack first with his knights and armoured men-at-arms, but had faced strong protests from the Galwegians that they should be given the honour of attacking first, since they had already demonstrated at Clitheroe that the vigour of their attack was sufficient to rout Normans in armour.

Eircom Plc was delisted from the stock exchange, become Eircom Limited, a private limited company by shares and a subsidiary of Valentia, and O ' Reilly took the reins as Executive Chairman ( a role he pursued with vigour, even holding management meetings at his Castlemartin home ).

" This mode of life ," he says, " gave health and vigour to my body, and amusement and instruction to my mind ; and to this day I well remember the delicious sleep which succeeded my labors, from which I was again called at an early hour.

In this position he devoted himself with energy and vigour to the reform of the law ; Lord Derby on his return to power in 1858 again offered him the same office, which from considerations of health he declined.

Researchers from the University of Twente, the University of Patras in Greece, and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have constructed a Feynman-Smoluchowski engine which, when not in thermal equilibrium, converts pseudo-Brownian motion into work by means of a granular gas, which is a conglomeration of solid particles vibrated with such vigour that the system assumes a gas-like state.

Harm and problems are more significant in North America, where ivy is without the natural pests and diseases that control its vigour in its native continents ; the photosynthesis or structural strength of a tree can be overwhelmed by aggressive ivy growth leading to death directly or by opportunistic disease and insect attacks caused by weakness from the duress.

Although he came late ( and unexpectedly ) to power, Louis acted with vigour, reforming the French legal system, reducing taxes and improving government, much like his contemporary Henry VII did in England.

I would as soon argue with some tiresome, remote and inattentive foghorn "; and later, in 1926, in the preface to Mr Belloc Objects: " For years I have failed to respond to Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, who long ago invented a set of opinions for me and invited me to defend them with an enviable persistence and vigour.

Atterbury's treatise, though highly praised by Bishop Gilbert Burnet, was more distinguished for the vigour of his rhetoric than the soundness of his arguments, and the Papists accused him of treason, and of having, by implication, called King James " Judas ".

* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

The vigour of the English assault, however, was such that they threatened to break through the line of the villages and out onto the open plateau of Mont St André beyond.

He also identifies a homophobic element to the vigour with which mainstream fandom rejects the possibility of a homosexual reading of the character.

After this formal education, Elizabeth spent the next nine years tending to domestic duties, but with her lively mind, energy and vigour, the prospect of a solely domestic existence would not satisfy her, so she continued to study Latin and arithmetic in the mornings and also read widely.

At first reluctantly, but then with increasing vigour, Galen promoted Hippocratic teaching, including venesection and bloodletting, then unknown in Rome.

After the Battle of White Mountain on 8 November 1620 the Roman Catholic Faith was re-established with vigour which fundamentally changed the religious conditions of Bohemia and Moravia.

This is a technique used when one's opponent has weak kisei ( spirit, vigour ) or when they yield a suki under pressure.

Former Australian Test player, Bruce Yardley, who himself was an off spinner in his day, was assigned with the task of ensuring Muralitharan bowled all his deliveries with the same vigour as he would do so in match conditions when tested in 2004.

He canonized Saint Vincent de Paul and proceeded with vigour against the French Jansenists.

He seems to have begun furiously, scrubbing out Plautus ' alphabetically arranged plays with zest, before growing lazy, before finally regaining his vigour at the end of the manuscript to ensure not a word of Plautus was legible.

He gained the popular favour by a judicious remission of taxation, and displayed great vigour and energy in administering the affairs of the Empire.

He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu Kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu Rivers, and his statesmanship and vigour marked him as one of the greatest Zulu kings.

His moral vigour and the service he provided as an ingenious and intrepid defender of the Christian religion were, for him, down to his view of Christianity as first and chiefly an experience of the heart.

When he was six the family moved to Woodford Hall, where new opportunities for an out-of-door life brought the boy health and vigour.

He warded off the evil hour that seemed approaching, he infused vigour into our arms, he taught the nation to speak again as England used to speak to foreign powers ... Pitt, on entering upon administration, had found the nation at the lowest ebb in point of power and reputation ... France, who meant to be feared, was feared heartily ... They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches.

The king, now more experienced, took up the struggle with great vigour.

Since the two parents were genetically distant, many of the crosses showed hybrid vigour and were selected for further propagation.

These " candles " offer foresters a means to evaluate fertility of the soil and vigour of the trees.