Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.
The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known. . . . So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat. , Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas. ]
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making that reaction formation solid enough in the medium so that it indeed becomes an improved bit of real world for others.
My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read your mind. That's where a friend or an editor comes in. A great editor will tell you straight when you've drifted into the latter territory.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
The establishment of our new lawful immigration system then and only then will we be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those individuals who remain.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.