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Before we can comprehend the moral work which the schools have done and are doing, we must perceive and appreciate with some degree of truthfulness the changes that have occurred in general life within a brief period of time.
"Come now, Mr Berrington, consider my proposal again. You'll go, won't you?" "Impossible," replied Edgar. "You are very kind, and I assure you that I fully appreciate your offer, but " He was interrupted by a clerk who entered at the moment and spoke a few words in an under tone to the owner. "Excuse me one minute, Mr Berrington," said the latter, rising quickly. "I shall return immediately.
Paul, who prided himself on his knowledge of feminine subtlety, was at fault; but who was he to appreciate the repressive influence of a practical-minded convent friend, quickly formative and loudly assertive of opinions, on an impressionable lady awakening to curiosities?
You say that you cannot leave your parish because you fear to give scandal; you fear to pain the poor people, who have been good to you and who have given you money, and your scruple is a noble one; I appreciate and respect it. But we must not think entirely of our duties to others; we must think of our duties to ourselves.
It was not until some years later, when New York and Boston families began to appreciate the place, that the first hotels were built, the Atlantic on the square facing the old mill, the Bellevue and Fillmore on Catherine Street, and finally the original Ocean House, destroyed by fire in 1845 and rebuilt as we see it to-day.
The truth is, the colliers were not sufficiently educated to appreciate the advantages of the industrial scheme. Though some of the Whitwood workmen have been stimulated by thrift, to build and furnish houses of their own, the greater number of them, during the recent flush of prosperity, squandered their wages on frivolity, extravagance, and intemperance.
Thorpe noted with especial satisfaction his fine, kindly big-brother attitude toward his sister Julia and it was impossible for him to avoid the conviction that Louisa was a simpleton not to appreciate such children.
Men appreciate and admire that which in a measure at least they are, and more that which they aspire to become. The recent war revealed how the capacity for heroism of a warlike nature lies latent in every Japanese breast and not in the descendants of the old military class alone. But it is more encouraging to note that popular appreciation of moral heroes is growing.
The water is hot, brackish, and repulsive to the taste, but it is water and in the desert, water is water! The simoom is also an institution of the desert. The simoom is unmistakably a wind, and surely no one who has not had the experience can appreciate it. Even the West India hurricanes or the typhoons of the China Sea are more kindly.
You have justified my confidence nobly, Willard; you certainly have. I'm proud of you, old man; I am indeed." The engineer tried manfully to appreciate the spirit of the speaker's words.
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