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Example sentences for "great reputation"

  • University of Perugia and practised his profession with great reputation, Andreas was called to Rome by Clement VII as Papal Physician, and also occupied that post under Pope Paul III.

  • The physician to this Pope was Romulus Spezioli, doctor of philosophy and of medicine of the University of Firmo, who acquired a great reputation at Rome as physician and finally was selected as Papal Physician.

  • Jurist and miscellaneous writer, has left a great reputation as a lawyer and judge.

  • He studied law, and was called to the Bar, but devoted himself to science, in which he gained a great reputation both as a discoverer and teacher.

  • He had a great reputation as a raconteur and sayer of good things, and he was a copious contributor to periodicals, especially the Quarterly Review.

  • There, as the bold stroke he had attempted had acquired him a great reputation, some days before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, they made him overtures to assassinate Admiral Coligny.

  • They had acquired a great reputation as a naval people, and the sailors were eager to encounter the English, and revenge their defeat upon them.

  • Some of these, who attained a great reputation in their day, and whose works are still retained in our collections, were rather verse-wrights than poets, and would now tax the patience of poetical readers beyond endurance.

  • There were then 8 British ships in Dover under Rear-Admiral Nicholas Bourne, and 15 near Rye under Robert Blake, a member of parliament, and soldier who had gained a great reputation in the Civil War.

  • He studied at Coimbra, in Portugal, graduated as a doctor of divinity, became a member of the Augustinian order of friars, and obtained a great reputation as a preacher.

  • He became an advocate at Bordeaux, where he won a great reputation by his oratorical gifts, but soon abandoned law for politics, and in 1834 was elected deputy.

  • The younger brother leaving Naples and dying soon afterwards, Pietro remained employed in that city, where he and his scholars acquired a great reputation by their paintings in oil and fresco.

  • In Piceno, where Conca was in great reputation, Monosilio was held in high esteem, and was employed both in public and in private.

  • He was devoted to asceticism, of great reputation, proficient in law, and eminent among those having a knowledge of the Vedas.

  • And he was conversant with the interpretations of the Vedas, was illustrious, gifted with great energy, and of great reputation.

  • He was of great reputation, and was born in the race of Chyavana and was the foremost of those acquainted with the Vedas.

  • And, on her was begotten Aurva of great reputation.

  • He had a great reputation as an orator, and is characterized by Ennius as "the quintessence of persuasiveness" (suadae medulla).

  • Motley came to Round Hill, as one of his schoolmates tells me, with a great reputation, especially as a declaimer.

  • The old Master of Arts had a great reputation in the house where he lived for knowing everything that was going on.

  • These studies he further developed by visits to Heidelberg, Dort (where he made the acquaintance of many of the delegates to the synod of 1619) and Geneva, and in all these places acquired a great reputation.

  • Garter, and earned a great reputation as a soldier, specially distinguishing himself at the battle of Poitiers in 1356.

  • He had a great reputation as a Greek scholar, and was a somewhat acrimonious critic of rival scholars, especially Bishop Blomfield.

  • He was the author of the "Remonstrances to the King," a work which got him a great reputation, and had been read eagerly by the whole town.

  • This girl made a great reputation at Stuttgard under the name of Augusta.

  • Therese received their greetings graciously, and I could see she enjoyed a great reputation.

  • He taught philosophy and theology at the university of Paris and enjoyed a great reputation as a subtle dialectician; his lectures developing the philosophy of Aristotle attracted a large circle of hearers.

  • A man of rare intelligence, a fearless horseman and an eloquent orator, Abd-el-Kader had acquired a great reputation by his piety.

  • She organized an opera company known by her name, and toured extensively in the United States, where she had a great reputation.

  • This confessor was a Theatin of great reputation, who directed the consciences only of women of the first rank.

  • He was the oracle of all the families in the neighborhood; and was, truly speaking, in great reputation.

  • There are numerous writers who have won a considerable, and some even a great reputation in both; but generally, as in the case of Scott, there is no difficulty in subordinating the one to the other.

  • He was moreover building up a great reputation as a preacher; and, as if all this was not enough, he was for several years editor of The British Critic.

  • In England, John Dunn appears to be acquiring a great reputation.

  • He became second violin in the celebrated Hellmesberger Quartet, and thus gained a great reputation as a quartet player.

  • After that he began to travel, and soon acquired a great reputation.


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