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Mitchelbourne began to feel quite sorry for this young officer of the limited capacities, and he was still in the sympathetic mood when one of the two men at the table spoke to him. Mitchelbourne turned at once.
Now, what are we to expect from a people too many of whom are put in possession of stores of fact quite beyond the degree in which their capacities to discriminate clearly, to judge wisely, and to draw conclusions rationally have been strengthened and furnished with the requisite guiding principles? What but a shallow shrewdness that should run into all the evils we have above named?
"A noble slave of the needle," he continued, still looking in at the window. "The daughter of a duke, with the talents of a dressmaker! Where will ge ge genius next take up her abode?" "Genius since you are pleased to apply that sublime appellation to my poor capacities for wielding the most familiar and harmless weapon of my sex is no respecter of persons, as you see.
Capacities conscious of their limits may repose even proudly when they reach them; and, if Mr.
Who is the fool the man that says, 'Here, then, cut away; better life than limb, or the man that says, 'I will keep it and I will die'? 'Better to enter into life maimed, because you will not always be maimed. The life will overcome the maiming. There is a wonderful restoration of capacities and powers that have been sacrificed for Christ's sake, a restoration even here.
Evelyn was almost sure to be a good letter-writer for he had a ready pen, a rather extraordinary range of interests and capacities, plenty of time and means, extensive knowledge of the world, and last but not least, a tendency not missed by the aforesaid Mr. Pepys to bestow his information and opinion freely upon less fortunately endowed and equipped mortals.
In all other pursuits we carefully study the relation of supply to demand. Why not in literature? Formerly, when readers were comparatively few, and were of a class that had leisure and the opportunity of cultivating the taste, books were generally written for this class, and aimed at its real or supposed capacities.
I shall therefore give the list of the persons who, in these or any other capacities, were engaged upon the trials.
Of course the difficulty in all this is that the field of knowledge is so vast and various, while the capacities of boys are so small, and the time to be spent on their education so short, that we quail before the attempt to grapple with the problem.
There are many singular coincidences I have known in the course of my life, not the least among which was the fact, that exactly when Turkey displayed his fullest beams from his red and radiant countenance, just then, too, at that critical moment, began the daily period when I considered his business capacities as seriously disturbed for the remainder of the twenty-four hours.
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