| Men belaud you as delicate and fragile, so as to delude you into thinking yourselves weak. |
| If the service is greater, the hero is made the target of outspoken praise, pulpit and press belaud him, applause greets him everywhere and processions form in his honor. |
| For myself, I would have writ more on this subject, but that I was afeared, if I did overmuch belaud these parts of the person. |
| Yet writers abuse the fierce and vicious eagle, while they belaud the gentle and good robin. |
| Nature does not ask any one to admire or belaud her. |
| But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned men not only do not notice it for themselves, but they contest every exposure of the harm and stupidity of patriotism with the greatest obstinacy and ardour, though without any rational grounds; and they continue to belaud it as beneficent and elevating. |
