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They have attempted to build steel ships, also without success, so that the real burden of winning the war in Europe falls upon American shoulders. Fortunately for the United States we are not making the blunders at the beginning of our intervention which some of the European nations have been making since August, 1914.
However, in spite of all their blunders, this new idea was of genuine benefit to them; at least it put them upon the right track it taught them the relationship between diet and disease. They saw the two as cause and consequence they watched the food they ate affecting their bodies as one might watch a match affecting a thermometer.
Though a sincere and convinced Liberal, I had always possessed an unfortunate capacity for seeing the defects and blunders of my own party, and I had a strong distaste for the doctrine which finds expression in the phrase, "My party, right or wrong." Besides, I was then, as I still am, strongly attracted towards different personalities.
Clay, who said: "The honorable gentleman was in favor of manufactures in 1822, but he has turned I need not use the word he has thus abandoned manufactures. Thus "'Old politicians chew on wisdom past And totter on, in blunders, to the last." The old General sprang to his feet. "The last allusion," said he, "is unworthy of a gentleman. Totter, sir, I totter!
And she was now ready to stand or fall by that decision. She had always accepted the other previous terms or whatever terms fate offered. Result each time, disaster. She must make no more fatal blunders. This time, her own terms or not at all. He was silent a long time. She knew she had convinced him that her terms were final.
I said: "I know; and I know, too, that though I have studied French hard since I came here, yet I still speak it with far too much hesitation too little accuracy to be able to command their respect I shall make blunders that will lay me open to the scorn of the most ignorant. Still I mean to give the lesson." "They always throw over timid teachers," said she.
Several days elapsed before Wolfert could summon courage enough to prosecute the enterprise, so much had he been dismayed by the apparition, whether living dead, of the grizzly buccaneer. In the meantime, what a conflict of mind did he suffer! He neglected all his concerns, was moody and restless all day, lost his appetite; wandered in his thoughts and words, and committed a thousand blunders.
But there is that blunder at page 990, line 76, volume 84 of the Cornhill Magazine, and it is past mending; and I wish in my life I had made no worse blunders or errors than that which is hereby acknowledged. Another Finis written. Another mile-stone passed on this journey from birth to the next world! Sure it is a subject for solemn cogitation.
Seven of those weeks had sufficed to overthrow the Second Empire; but only after another one-and-twenty weeks had the Third Republic laid down her arms. Whatever may have been the blunders of the National Defence, it at least saved the honour of France,
For all children love their fathers and mothers, if these last will only let them; it is not a little unkindness that will kill so hardy a plant as the love of a child for its parents. Nature has allowed ample margin for many blunders, provided there be a genuine desire on the parent's part to make the child feel that he is loved, and that his natural feelings are respected.
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