notablest

-- But the notablest was a certain necessitous or covetous Duke of Burgundy, in straitened circumstances we shall hope, -- who reflected that in all likelihood this English Archbishop, going towards Rome to appeal, must have taken store of cash with him to bribe the Cardinals.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

-- But the notablest was a certain necessitous or covetous Duke of Burgundy, in straitened circumstances we shall hope, -- who reflected that in all likelihood this English Archbishop, going towards Rome to appeal, must have taken store of cash with him to bribe the

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

The Egyptians were afraid of fire, not as a deity, but a devouring element, mercilessly consuming their bodies, and leaving too little of them; and therefore by precious embalmments, depositure in dry earths, or handsome inclosure in glasses, contrived the notablest ways of integral conservation.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

His supremacy in American statesmanship, as senator, and as secretary of state, makes him "the notablest of our notabilities."

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

Not many days ago I saw at breakfast the notablest of all your notabilities, Daniel Webster.

Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

Endowments might be replaced, but "the notablest library of bookes in all England" was gone for ever.

St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891

VI the last and notablest of all the Burggraves -- a man of distinguished importance, extrinsic and intrinsic; chief or among the very chief of

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Not many days ago I saw at breakfast the notablest of all your notabilities, Daniel Webster.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen Elbert Hubbard 1885

The hope I have however is sure: if life is lent me, I shall be done with the business; I will write this “History of Sansculottism,” the notablest phenomenon I meet with since the time of the Crusades or earlier; after which my part is played.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

He has written in that same Newspaper about all the notablest men of his time; Godwin, Corn-law Elliott and I know not all whom: if he publish the Book, I will take care to send it you.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883