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A more serious charge is, that when he had trustworthy authorities to follow, he did not appreciate their value. In his account of the Macedonian wars, he often follows Polybius all but word for word, but apparently without realising the Greek historian's admirable accuracy and judgment.
That the American people appreciate and are ready to support what is most elegant, refined, and beautiful in the greatest capitals of Europe, that they value and intend to provide the largest and most costly opportunities for the enjoyment of their own leisure, artistic tastes, and rural instincts, is emphatically declared in the history, progress, and manifest destiny of the Central Park; while their competency to use wisely, to enjoy peacefully, to protect sacredly, and to improve industriously the expensive, exposed, and elegant pleasure-ground they have devised, is proved with redundant testimony by the year and more of experience we have had in the use of the Park, under circumstances far less favorable than any that can ever again arise.
"I have pondered on the question of how our acts will be accepted by the people," the Professor resumes. "I believe they will hail our acts as those of deliverance." "They will appreciate that we gave our lives for them," Neilson declares unhesitatingly. All of the Forty act with similar coolness. Men of action are not as a usual thing great talkers; so it is with the members of this committee.
Mildred's going to the school, and you being a patroness will make Madame Duval listen to such a proposal from you." Mrs. Vandecar turned upon her visitor searchingly. "Are you doing right, Ann, in taking these children into your home life? I appreciate your good-heartedness; but " "Horace and I have talked it all over," interjected Ann, "and we are both assured that we are doing what is right.
"There serves no prince in Europe a braver man than this Englishman," cried Alexander, who well knew how to appreciate high military qualities, whether in his own army or in that of his foes. The garrison then retired, Sluy's became Spanish, and a capacious harbour, just opposite the English coast, was in Parma's hands.
Then, as from a sudden impulse, she turned and spoke to Hemstead with quaint earnestness: "You are a stranger, sir, but I perceive from your noble courtesy and bearing your power to appreciate and bring out the best there is in us that you belong to the royal family of the Great King. Your Master will reward you."
An utter want of imagination goes to the making of more heroes than it is pleasant to think about, since people who cannot picture consequences, and forecast risks, deserve but little credit for the courage which they display, but are unable to appreciate.
Winterfield another devoted friend of yours?" He walked to the door, as if he could hardly trust his temper if he answered her stopped and, thinking better of it, turned toward her again. "We won't quarrel, Stella," he rejoined; "I will only say I am sorry you don't appreciate my forbearance. Your reception of Mr.
It is said that next in value to the performance of great deeds ourselves, is the capacity to appreciate such when performed by others; to more than this I do not presume. Allow me one other personal word before I proceed. In the minds of some of the American people I was myself credited with an important agency in the John Brown raid. Governor Henry A. Wise was manifestly of that opinion.
He had too much self-respect to submit voluntarily to such slights. Meanwhile Paul's school life fled rapidly. It was a happy time, happy in its freedom from care, and happy for him, though all school boys do not appreciate that consideration, in the opportunities for improvement which it afforded. These opportunities, it is only just to Paul to say, were fully improved.
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