Adverb
In a consummate manner.
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It is most certain that was her Soul as beautiful as is her Body, nothing under the Heavens wou'd be more consummately perfect.
Iassert, Sir, that he is ignorant, that he has from the beginning been consummately ignorant of the principles, temper, disposition and force of the colonies.
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Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die: let us crown ourselves with rose-buds; let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness;" would then be the language of reason and truth. — But eternity before us — consummately blessed, or consummately wretched — and death every moment shaking his dart triumphantly over us, preparing to strike once, and strike no more ; — can it be possible that any rational being should remain unsolicitous, and neglect to prepare for the important realities of eternity, while chasing, with unremitted ardour, the fugitive vanities of time and sense?
The two first branches of the argument, it is acknowledged, are the strongest, it cannot — because all things are so consummately perfect, as to deny any addition or subtraction. It shall—that shews power, and what more great than — sic volo — on which account, not much need of the last. It ought not — for several under causes and reasons.
With the personal irregularities of individuals we disdain to interfere; but, in the next place, it is clear that a consummately correct and decorous style of conduct before the public, is essential to both public respect, and to that subordination within the walls necessary among the giddy multitude that make the company and servants of a great theatre. The most acknowledged ability will not compensate for the absence of this exactness.
As an example of the utmost splendour, combined with due subservience of decoration, we would refer to the elaborate and consummately beautiful King John (of France) cup, of the fourteenth century — the palmy time with Gothic art.
Small things, inessential details, bulk as largely as before, and only time can clear them away; tragedy is at first bewilderment, hardly more than a sense of disquiet. It is this moment which is seized with such wonderful insight in the poem 'Departure/ a picture of grief which does not yet perceive that it is grief. 'The Azalea,' with its desolating contrast of perfumed warmth and chill solitude, touches even more consummately the actual reality of suffering. No mystic vision, no intangible abstraction, here lifts the mood into an air too rare for human sympathy and understanding.