Our ascent itself was a great
achievement, but this contribution to science was an inconceivably greater matter.
It was reserved for the first settlers of new England to perform
achievements equally arduous, to trample down obstructions equally formidable, to dispel dangers equally terrific, under the single inspiration of conscience.
No; Laurence," rejoined Grandfather; "and every warlike
achievement involves an amount of physical and moral evil, for which all the gold in the Spanish mines would not be the slightest recompense.
It was the crowning
achievement of his amiable character that the answers we got were given in a quite mild and friendly tone.
So seldom do they ever exert themselves, that when they do work they seem determined that so meritorious an action shall not escape the observation of those around if, for example, they have occasion to remove a stone to a little distance, which perhaps might be carried by two able-bodied men, a whole swarm gather about it, and, after a vast deal of palavering, lift it up among them, every one struggling to get hold of it, and bear it off yelling and panting as if accomplishing some mighty
achievement.
The risk of the
achievement was, in fact, now over, although the climber was some sixty or seventy feet from the ground.
Indeed Therese did somehow resemble an
achievement, wonderful enough in its way, in unglazed earthenware.
This was a stock remark, the supreme
achievement of the Pension Bertolini in the way of definition.
No prophet had told him, and he was not prophet enough to tell himself, that essentially this young wife of his was as deserving of the praise of King Lemuel as any other woman endowed with the same dislike of evil, her moral value having to be reckoned not by
achievement but by tendency.
This was considered by the whole village the most wonderful
achievement in the world, but when an answer came back all the way from Plymouth, in which he mentioned that he was going to take the picture all the way to America, and from America would write again, I got all the credit that ought to have been given to the post- office and was invested with the merit of the whole system.
Yet it seems to me to require a superhuman sanity always and unerringly to separate cause from effect,
achievement from intent.
The other arm followed; then a leg; and at last I sat astride the wall, panting and palpitating, and hardly able to credit my own
achievement.
Clayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate with the noblest monuments of historic
achievement upon a thousand victorious battlefields--a strong, virile man --mentally, morally, and physically.
I think that no man of our generation has a more noteworthy
achievement to his credit than this; and it is an
achievement of moral earnestness of the strong character of a man who has done a great national service.
666, L'Empereur Napoleon, and L'russe Besuhof- all this had to mature and culminate, to lift him out of that spellbound, petty sphere of Moscow habits in which he felt himself held captive and lead him to a great
achievement and great happiness.
