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Not because even Battus, vexed as he was about his precious eyesight, distrusted the Oracle, but because he felt sure that the Oracle had not spoken out freely; therefore, had he and many others in similar circumstances presumed to delay. A second edition was what they waited for, corrected and enlarged.
She corrected one of us once for using the word 'spit' or 'spitting. She made a great favourite of Branwell. She made her nieces sew, with purpose or without, and as far as possible discouraged any other culture. She used to keep the girls sewing charity clothing, and maintained to me that it was not for the good of the recipients, but of the sewers. 'It was proper for them to do it, she said.
These were observed with intelligent eyes, the impressions deepened and corrected by close investigation into the historical and contemporary facts connected with the localities, and the result given in language graphic, direct, and at the same time easy and graceful. A collection of these letters would make one of the most delightful volumes of travel sketches in the language.
Dane wants me to come and stay with her, as she has one of her dreadful nervous attacks. I feel as though I ought to go, if you can spare me girls!" "Things will go higgle-ty-piggle-ty, sure as the world," said Kat, balancing on the edge of the table, and fanning with the duster. "No, they will not either," corrected Bea. "We ought to be ashamed if they do.
No one said a single word, but the old soldier felt the understanding sympathy rising like steam from all of them. "Then, suddenly, it was gone out into the open sky bang into the sunrise. And I saw the dawn all over everything. I dressed rushed out and " "Had it laid an egg?" Tim asked, remembering another kind of hunting somewhere, long ago. "How could it?" Judy corrected him quickly.
that being her idea of the last line of Milton's "Lycidas," which they had all learned quite recently. "Not 'fresh fields," Janet corrected, "'fresh woods." "'Fields," said Mary. "'Woods," said Janet. "I'm sure it's 'fields," said Mary. "But it's silly," said Janet, "to say 'fresh fields and pastures new, because they mean the same thing. 'Fresh woods' would mean something different."
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported. It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that our fellow-citizens are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
If, however, it can be proven from Holy Writ that we proclaim erroneous or false doctrine, we will suffer ourselves to be corrected. We cannot, however, for the sake of keeping the peace, let everything pass and approve of everything they preach, for we know that it does not agree with the Holy Scriptures.
The girl looked thoughtful for a moment and then asked, "Is that the only one there is?" "Only what?" demanded her mother. "The only Thalia?" "'T is the only one I've heard of," said the squire. "Thou 'rt wrong, Lambert," corrected his spouse, in wifely fashion. "'T was one of those old heathens with horns, or tail, or something, I forget exactly. What set thy mind on that, child?
She never uses big words; so it is only of late I have had the nous to see how wise she is. She corrected the special blots of the female character in me, and it is sweet to me to talk of that dear friend. What would I give to see her here!
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