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The original and predominant errour of his commentary, is acquiescence in his first thoughts; that precipitation which is produced by consciousness of quick discernment; and that confidence which presumes to do, by surveying the surface, what labour only can perform, by penetrating the bottom.
"I won't submit to the narrow dictum of a man who presumes to tell me what I think." "But if nobody were to tell you, how would you find out what you think? Oh," he added, "I admit that it was presumption on my part. I was presuming that you think." "I do think, and if some one must tell me what I think, let him be a thinking man."
From this principle he justly concluded, that the man who presumes to reign, should aspire to the perfection of the divine nature; that he should purify his soul from her mortal and terrestrial part; that he should extinguish his appetites, enlighten his understanding, regulate his passions, and subdue the wild beast, which, according to the lively metaphor of Aristotle, seldom fails to ascend the throne of a despot.
I shall keep on my guard. You'll see me take her down if she presumes." But Lilian Boyd did not presume. She went to church with her mother on Sunday in a simple white pique frock, and spent the evening on the back porch with Miss Arran, not even going in the parlor for the singing, and on Monday school duties began. The classes received considerable accessions from the day scholars.
Turgid Talmage must likewise unload; Talmage, who presumes to teach not only theology but political economy; who interlards his sermons with strange visions of Heaven, dreams of Hell, and still more wonderful hints on how to make a people terrestrially prosperous.
When he has been GOOD." Double dummy, one presumes. One leaves the Colonel, in the end, cured of his passion for whist. In the play, I am inclined to think, Veronica received assistance. The house had got itself finished early in September. Young Bute has certainly done wonders. We performed it in the empty billiard-room, followed by a one-act piece of my own.
"Juve, when an officer of the Second Bureau disappears in such tragic conditions, do you know what one presumes to be the reason of that disappearance?" "What?"
"Denounce me, then, if you wish," retorted Dick in cool contempt, "and you'll bring trouble down on your own head instead. No class requires, or permits, a member to fight in defence of his official conduct." "Prescott is turning coward, then, is he?" "You or any other man who presumes to say it knows well enough that he is thereby lying," came quickly from between Prescott's teeth.
He was drumming on the hearthstone with the end of his sword scabbard. As we entered he rose and briefly saluted us. "Which of you two gentlemen is Herr Winthrop?" he asked. "I am he," said I. "His Majesty commands your immediate presence at the palace." "The King?" "Yes." "Have you any idea what his desires are?" "A soldier never presumes to know His Majesty's desires, only his commands.
The ground is defensible, and I maintain it. As to the resolutions adopted in Boston in 1820, and which resolutions he has caused to be read, and which he says he presumes I prepared, I have no recollection of having drawn the resolutions, and do not believe I did.
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