Sublime

respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" had been pronounced in D—— in 1815. People came from a distance of ten leagues around to consult M. Madeleine.

respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and there came a moment, around 1821, when the words “Monsieur the Mayor” were pronounced at Montreuil-sur-mer with almost the same accent as the words “Monseigneur the Bishop” at Digne in 1815.

For now my lord the King regards me not, But dotes upon the love of Gaveston.

he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity.

my admiration for him had grown by leaps and bounds.

‘Attention,’ wrote the French thinker Simone Weil, ‘is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’ Give your sentences that courtesy and they will repay you.

You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.

Respect is a gift you offer with your eyes. In the previous