extolment

It is not possible to conceive knowledge otherwise than as living knowledge, and as the extolment of our 109 own personality.

Whether one reads a single book or an entire library, the result is the same, if what is read fails to become the life of the reader—his feelings and his thoughts, his passions and his meditation, his experience and the extolment of his personality.

Culture then is the extolment of our being, the formation of our spirit, or better, its liberation and its beatification.

There are times of praise, adoration, extolment, when thankfulness is more exuberant, runs over into bursting joy, and times when longing desire carries us into the very bosom of God.

A forcing adamant: Love, mix'd with fear and doubtful jealousy: Whether report gilded a worthless trunk, Or Amadine deserved her high extolment.