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That victory was not a more serious blow to the Royalists than to the party which had hitherto been dominant at Westminster; for it was notorious that the day, disgracefully lost by the Presbyterians, had been retrieved by the energy of Cromwell, and by the steady valor of the warriors whom he had trained. These events produced the Self-denying Ordinance and the new model of the army.
Four years of the pursuit of letters amid arms, while passion was hottest, and men were too excited to care for the exact truth, had trained this cool-headed scribe to critical treatment of rumors and reports. Furthermore, he knew the value of first authorities and of contemporary writers and eye-witnesses.
"My mother, driven from her home by the chance of war, died in giving me life, and I was taken in charge by a sage enchanter, who trained me to feats of arms amidst the dangers of the desert and the chase."
Campbell has at times a keen and animated manner something of a martial cast in his tone and bearing." "I own," I replied, "that his expression struck me as being occasionally fierce and sinister, and little adapted to his peaceable professions. Has he served in the army?" "Yes no not, strictly speaking, served; but he has been, I believe, like most of his countrymen, trained to arms.
Although it has not happened yet, there is no reason why a Serb or a Slovak should not make some important discovery if he has been trained at a European University and learnt the technical tradition.
"For God's sake, Captain," exclaimed Mr Meldrum, "round the ship to, if you can! If that squall that's coming right forward catches her in the teeth, she will go down stern foremost in a second!" "Nonsense, Mr Meldrum!" answered Captain Dinks hotly. "Who are you? a landsman, to give orders to a trained seaman! I don't allow passengers to interfere with me in working my own ship."
A political thinker so trained is necessarily apt to preserve the conception of human nature which he learnt in his student days in a separate and sacred compartment of his mind, into which the facts of experience, however laboriously and carefully gathered, are not permitted to enter.
It is necessary that we should be trained in the school of adversity; and that by a course of corrective discipline, nicely adapted to each particular case, our characters should be gradually matured for a nobler existence. The manner in which the calamity to which we have referred overtook the Shunammite, is thus detailed by the faithful pen of inspiration.
She was sorry that he was a bank clerk; it had a poor and meagre sound. It was not for him that she had been trained. She had been made to slave for herself, and was to make a "continental" marriage with the highest bidder.
There came as she spoke, a buzz of other voices, issuing from another mill just before them; voices trained in the higher notes, and knowing little of the minor key. And forth from the opening door came a gay knot of people, feathers and flowers and colours, with a black coat here and there; one of which made a short way to Miss Kennedy's side.
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