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I learned to play at cricket, to hate rich people, to cure warts, to write Latin verses, to swim, to recite speeches, to cook kidneys on toast, to draw caricatures of the masters, to construe Greek plays, to black boots, and to receive kicks and serious advice resignedly. Who will say that the fashionable public school was of no use to me after that?
"When your conviction of a truth is not merely in your brain but in your being, you may diffidently vouch for its meaning." He discouraged any tendency a student might have to construe book-knowledge as a necessary step to spiritual realization. "The RISHIS wrote in one sentence profundities that commentating scholars busy themselves over for generations," he remarked.
The Pales and Terminus I wish you to put up in the fields are familiar images, that you may cut out of an oak tree, not beautiful marble statues, on porphyry pedestals, twenty feet high." PISISTRATUS. "Miss Austen; Mrs. Gore, in her masterpiece of 'Mrs. Armytage; Mrs. Caxton, can't even construe a line and a half of Phaedrus, Phaedrus, Mrs.
The sentry in a sort of cabin above the gate a gate-house, so to speak maintained a guard within as well as without, for an outer sentinel was posted on the crest of the counterscarp beyond the bridge; he kept his eye on the Cherokees, but he did not note their look. He was not skilled in deciphering facial expression, nor did he conceive himself deputed to construe the grimaces of savages.
Clara herself writes as early as October "Mary says things which I construe into unkindness. I was wrong. We soon became friends; but I felt deeply the imaginary cruelties I conjured up." It is clear that where such constant explaining is necessary there could not be much satisfaction in perpetual intimacy.
Yet now she owned herself at fault, unable to construe the manner of this action or assign a particular motive with which it was in harmony. At this moment, as Sophia stood among the vacant seats, the scene of the conversation which had just taken place, she felt that her insight into Robert Trenholme failed her.
You have seen the gray-head in front of his warriors, Magua; but I have seen his eyes swimming in water, when he spoke of those children who are now in your power!" Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian.
He would, for example, construe the precept, "Sing with open throat," as a rule to be directly applied; that he had acquired the open throat by imitating his master's tones this teacher would be utterly unaware. More than one generation of master and pupil was probably concerned, in each succession, in the gradual loss of the substance of the old method.
Argyle is moving upon Inverlochy with three thousand chosen men, commanded by the flower of the sons of Diarmid. These are my news they are certain it is for you to construe their purport."
Cobbett, as well as by myself, to be not only a useless but a dangerous proceeding; useless, because the main question upon which the delegates met was settled; and dangerous, because it would be taken advantage of by the Government, which would construe such meetings, so continued, into an attempt to overawe the Parliament. Mr.
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