Sentence examples for eminent man from inspiring English sources

We sorrow with the family of this eminent man of letters, our esteemed fellow editor of "The Harvard Lampoon" and our enduring friend.

Toward the end of his life, Jones forgot his noble French ancestry, and whenever a bulletin came announcing the death of some eminent man, he would start sobbing, claiming the man was his father.

He was not only an eminent man of letters but also a very social being, fond of tarrying with old friends and making new ones, some with exalted status.

Verdi's librettist was Arrigo Boito, a composer as well as an eminent man of letters, and his libretto is often held up as one of the finest in opera.

Which made it all the more telling when our professor, an eminent man from the days when zoology involved fewer genes and bleeping machines, asked how many of us had read On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural etc. etc. etc.

Voltaire and Diderot, Rousseau and Helvétius, had vanished, but Condorcet both assisted at the Encyclopaedia and sat in the Convention; the one eminent man of those who had tended the tree, who also came in due season to partake of its fruit; at once a precursor, and a sharer in the fulfillment" (Morley 37).

Movement now taken up by Cadman, Hayes, Wise, Manning and other eminent men.

This assures me the acquaintance and assistance of these eminent men on my return home".

They are respected, eminent men and women, but they are reduced.

Significantly, some eminent men, hated from those days, were now convicted of corruption.

He commissioned such great artists as Sandro Botticelli and Antonio del Pollaiuolo and pensioned such eminent men of learning as Bartolomeo Platina.