Eminent

Examples

• I have taken a book written by one eminent professor and evidently approved by others, for they use it as a text-book. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Among the earlier names, that of Dr. Gilbert (1540-1603), of Colchester, is pre-eminent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the former situation, we are likely to find the universities filled with the most eminent men of letters that are to be found in the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Robert Stephenson was the engineer of this great structure, aided by the suggestions of Fairbairn and other eminent engineers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An eminent physiologist thinks it worth while 'to try and place life on a physical basis. Plato. The Republic.
• Jackson, an eminent chemist of the same city. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the early part of 1881 there was sent from Paris to Glasgow a so-called box of electric energy for inspection and test by Sir William Thomson, the eminent electrician. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer, and made money. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Stumpy and Rowdy, to lie in the cellars of those eminent bankers until the same period should arrive. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• How you have escaped them I can't imagine, says the eminent traveller, lighting his cheroot again, and staring hard at Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The eminent traveller did me the honour of waking up in an instant, and asking me who I was. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the treatment of chilblains we give a detailed list of formulas from the works and practice of a number of the most eminent physicians and surgeons. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Mrs. Churchill had been recommended to the medical skill of an eminent person there, and had otherwise a fancy for the place. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I am told he is an eminent philanthropist--which is decidedly against him, to begin with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Not one man in a thousand has accuracy of eye and judgment sufficient to become an eminent breeder. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Now, with reference to placing Mr. Richard with some sufficiently eminent practitioner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Says Lamartine of the writings of Palissy, they are real treasures of human wisdom, divine piety, and eminent genius, as well as of great simplicity, vigor, and copiousness of style. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Sir Astley Cooper, the eminent surgeon, said to Robert Stephenson, when the latter called to see him about a new road, Your scheme is preposterous in the extreme. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is due to his discoveries and publications, combined with those of the eminent men on the continent, above referred to, that agricultural chemistry arose to the dignity of a science. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Charles Darwin possessed both these mental characteristics in an eminent degree. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• His correspondence was sought for by the most eminent philosophers of Europe. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Eminent Scientific Men who have Made Ventilation a Study. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was shown to an eminent engineer for his opinion. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They are generally the disciples of some eminent professor or sophist, whom they rather imitate than understand. Plato. The Republic.
• Liston, an eminent English surgeon, performed the operation of amputating the thigh while the patient was under the influence of ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1879 that eminent English scientist, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It has been stated by that eminent specialist in steam engineering, Prof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He had the advice of an eminent oculist; and he eventually recovered the sight of that one eye. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists disbelieve in the mutability of species? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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