| They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided. |
| It is not our intention to characterise his excellences as a composer. |
| These excellences, too, as far as they go, are founded in the truth of general nature. |
| Suppose then, I said, that we determine how far they can unite this and the other excellences. |
| To revert to Schnitzler the dramatist, what are his chief claims, his chief excellences, his chief defects? |
| All in vain, however, did he point out the excellences of his work. |
