| Nature does not ask any one to admire or belaud her. |
| 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. |
| I cannot understand those folk who sniff at the English music-hall and belaud the Parisian shows. |
| 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. |
| Men belaud you as delicate and fragile, so as to delude you into thinking yourselves weak. |
| As may be imagined, I defended peace in the one, and did my best to belaud his Excellency in the other. |
