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The miscalculations of a great genius are enlightening; here, in Anna Karenina, is one that calls attention to Tolstoy's characteristic fashion of telling a story, and declares its remarkable qualities. The story of Anna, I suggested, is not essentially dramatic. Like the story of Emma Bovary or of Eugénie Grandet, it is a picture outspread, an impression of life, rather than an action.
This revelation of the blunder which "the classes" had committed in their estimate of Lincoln had an even greater effect in softening the asperities which the war left behind it than had the exposure of the egregious miscalculations of English statesmen as to the comparative military strength of North and South.
Time was needed to remedy these miscalculations, but time was provided by our command of the sea, about which there had been no misjudgment and no lack of pre-vision. We made our mistakes before, and during the war, but neither Mr.
We need every minute, but we cannot afford to make any miscalculations. The last quarter of an hour is likely to be the worst." So on they went through the starry night. Steadily Ginger pounded the trail, knocking off the miles hour after hour. There was no pause for rest or for food.
"You might have and that's a fact," Mr. Bryce agreed. "Now you say you've hunted for this valley many times during the last ten years or so." Cumshaw nodded. "It seems funny," he said, "but I've never been able to find it." "There's nothing funny about it," Bryce told him. "History and fiction abound with instances of similar miscalculations.
This was the theory which guided the rancher's actions, though he was too wise to lose sight of the probability of serious miscalculations on his part. There was another danger, however, of which he failed to think, but which was not long in manifesting itself. By shifting his course so often, and leaving the stream altogether, he was sure to lose his bearings in the darkness.
Bob and his aunt were sure now that they had not made any miscalculations on designing the dairy barn for a twenty-cow herd; they felt they would be able to take care of that number easily. "Let's go hunting, Bob," said Ruth one morning at breakfast a few days later. "I'd like to shoot some real game." "All right," said Bob, "but we've only one gun between us.
In spite of such miscalculations as beset all forecasts of the future, they show admirable good sense and clear appreciation.
It was written by an Italian and he said that was the chief characteristic of them all." "Vanity? And they always do such clever things and such stupid things at the same time, and their beautiful plans are so full of absurd miscalculations, just as yours are." "Just as mine are," he said mockingly.
Miscalculations will still be made, the building trades will still become slack in the winter, the casual methods of engaging dock laborers will still continue, trade cycles will still recur, while beneath them, and concealed by them, some industries will expand and others will decay. Thus, like the armies at Salonika, the new business would in effect divert resources from elsewhere.
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