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People will have something to work from and something to work toward, in judging what they can do with employers and with workmen around them. Then we will have team work and civilization we will have a democracy the Germans would like to be asked to belong to. The most gravely important, unbusinesslike and unscientific blunders people make in economics, are their judgments of facts about people.
But of course amidst these blunders nothing was done from Spain to disturb the organization of the republicans in Africa; indeed in consequence of the complications with Longinus, Bogud king of West Mauretania, who was on Caesar's side and might at least have put some obstacles in the way of king Juba, had been called away with his troops to Spain. Military Revolt in Campania
The Prince for whom the Queen had embarked in an important family quarrel and a quarrel involving national prerogatives was, besides, little calculated to inspire interest. Still young, uninformed, and deficient in natural talent, he was always making blunders.
One day a new face, another day a new dish, another day a new dance, successively interested his feelings, particularly if the face rode, which they all do; the dish was at Sir George Sauceville's, and the dance at the Duke of Burlington's. So time flew on, between a canter to Rottindean, the flavours of a Perigord, and the blunders of the mazurka.
"Political blunders! I know nothing of them, and had rather thought them right, in most of what they said about our politics. But, surely, neither your father nor Mr. John Effingham corroborates what they say of our society!" "I cannot answer for either, on that point." "Speak then for yourself. Do you think them right?"
The Queen was moved at this, and the poor Cardinal owned he had been too easy and pliant. I had myself given a very natural handle to my adversaries to expose me so egregiously. I have been guilty of many blunders, but I think this is the grossest that I ever was guilty of in all my life.
Sydney Smith took us, our authors and early enterprises, under his special patronage, and he wrote many favorable articles of that character. One would have supposed, that, in the necessary preparation for such labors, he would have acquired some geographical, statistical, and other rudimentary knowledge about us, enough to have kept him from gross blunders.
"Well, papa," said Helen, "I will try to please you; but I am afraid I am not quite perfect yet. I hope you will excuse me, if I make any blunders." She then began the following lines, which she sang in a sweet, clear and natural voice: I.
In such cases, the prior worker has sometimes identified his own by a blunder, as he would a stolen china vase by a crack. There have been, no doubt, cruel instances of printers' blunders in our own days, like the fate of the youthful poetess in the Fudge family: "When I talked of the dewdrops on freshly-blown roses, The nasty things printed it freshly-blown noses."
There is plenty of time for all the experiments, and all the blunders, and all the failures; and all the successes of the future will grow out of these, because every failure rightly seen is the seed of a coming success, and only by the failures that we make in our ignorance may the plant of wisdom be sown, and presently flower and bear fruit for the feeding of the nations.
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