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For him, the Highland line had been the boundary of the known world, so that his mind was a chequer-work of curious ignorance and knowledge. From the first I liked him for his joy in his dainty lady.
The facility for making immense profits which is afforded them by the ignorance and the passions of these people, and the certainty of impunity, are things which they cannot resist; the attraction of gain acts upon them as drunkenness does upon their victims. How many crimes arise from the same source?
On the other hand, the belief in them has created a pseudo-science of relief from suffering and a great host of pseudo-doctors who for a long time exercised a large control over society and bound men in fetters of ignorance. +691+. In early societies demons have not individual names.
Here all is dark, and the inference we draw from the seeming perfections of the existing instruments or means is a measure of nothing but our ignorance." But the question is not about the perfection of these adaptations, or whether others might have been instituted in their place.
Unless in the teeth of a most obstinate run of cards, he would be sure to win against Scarborough's apparent forgetfulness of all rules, and ignorance of the peculiarities of the game he was playing. But he would more probably obtain payment of the two hundred and thirty pounds now due to him, that or nearly that, than of a larger sum.
She knows a great many languages, but she can't speak English since Henry the Eighth's time, when she said to him, 'You be fiddled, which meant, the Scotch should come with their fiddles and rule England. I never pity myself for not being able to jabber French, but I blush for their ignorance. However, all this is neither here nor there.
Or take a merchant whose whole trade like all trade indeed is founded on a series of trickery, by means of which, profiting by the ignorance or need of others, he buys goods below their value and sells them again above their value.
He had seen Religion but dimly when he had thought to follow the golden chain of Knowledge, link by link, to its hidden end. Dimly had he seen it when he was learning the value of Ignorance. And yet, in all of these things it had been even as it would be in all the things that were yet to come. No man can escape Religion.
Manfred is no object of envy, but no doubt you are acquainted with my story." The Knight made signs of ignorance, and seemed curious to have Manfred proceed. "Is it possible, Sirs," continued the Prince, "that my story should be a secret to you? Have you heard nothing relating to me and the Princess Hippolita?" They shook their heads. "No! Thus, then, Sirs, it is.
In fact, he was very jealous indeed of Washington, and did not hesitate to express his opinion about him whenever he had a chance. The American army was not very successful in Long Island, and there was a time when it fared very badly in New Jersey; and Lee was not slow to declare that these misfortunes were owing entirely to the ignorance of the man who was in command.
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