The English enterprises were persevering, continuous and successful.
Her persevering and patient love seemed completely to surround the countess every moment, not explaining or consoling, but recalling her to life.
Still persevering he moved on to the Modder, where he was seriously opposed by De la Rey and P. A.
It is, however, still a question whether this really arises from a different mental constitution causing a natural capacity for entering into relations with man, or whether it may not be owing to their having been brought gradually into this condition by long-continued and persevering efforts when the need of their services was felt.
He ceased to attend the society in 1829, but he carried away from it the strengthening memory of failure overcome by persevering effort, and the important doctrinal conviction that a true system of political philosophy was "something much more complex and many-sided than he had previously had any idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model institutions but principles from which the institutions suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced."