| Reforms, however, are needed which will not weaken these excellences. |
| Each one extols with words and gestures the excellences of his boat. |
| But these excellences, though found in a hareem, will not fuse, as in a poem or a picture. |
| They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided. |
| Suppose then, I said, that we determine how far they can unite this and the other excellences. |
| All in vain, however, did he point out the excellences of his work. |
