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He is an original, spontaneous genius and not, like most of his contemporaries, a disputatious, quill-driving theorist, that is to say, a fanatical pedant, an artificial being composed of his books, a mill-horse with blinkers, and turning around in a circle without an issue.
Now you know that old Wilkins never axed no more than threepence. Now, how we're to pay at that rate comes to more than my knowledge. Jim hadn't the dirt, although he had brought his threepence; so his blinkers are left there in limbo." "We must find out another man; the shop's to let, and all handy. Suppose we speak to the governor?"
The boots of all the others underwent the same transformation, and every day our outfit became more complete. A number of minor alterations in our wardrobe were also carried out. One man was an enthusiast for blinkers on his cap; another did not care for them.
And that is a pretty large order almost staggeringly large now that, thanks to you, I begin to realize the vastness of the amount." "The majority of men in your Service never realize it," Charles Verity returned. "They run in blinkers from first to last. Not that I underrate their usefulness. They are honest, painstaking, thoroughly reliable, according to their lights.
This wise speech of good little Merrylegs, which we knew was quite true, cooled us all down, especially Sir Oliver, who was dearly fond of his master; and to turn the subject I said, "Can any one tell me the use of blinkers?" "No!" said Sir Oliver shortly, "because they are no use."
Thus, despite fitful gleams of idealism, the atmosphere of the Paris Conclave grew heavy with interests, passions, and ambitions. Only people in blinkers could miss the fact that the elastic formulas launched and interpreted by President Wilson were being stretched to the snapping-point so as to cover two mutually incompatible policies.
He has not to put on the fetters or the blinkers of any new system in order to understand them; he has only to get rid of his own a much more profitable and less troublesome task. This particular conclusion will scarcely, I think, be disputed, but the point presents difficulties and must be dwelt upon.
And she had a great many trinkets, necklaces, and bracelets, and ear-rings, and a sort of little silver coronet; no, it was not like a coronet, it was a band with a square piece of silver fastened so as to stand up at each side of her head something like a horse's blinkers, only they were not placed over her eyes.
"I'll I'll be driven in an ekka if I know," was the gasping reply, "and I'd give a week's feed to get my blinkers off. I can't see anything." "The dust is rather bad. Whew! That was one for my off-hock. Where's the ball, Corks?" "Under my tail. At least, the man's looking for it there! This is beautiful. They can't use their sticks, and it's driving 'em wild.
He wished that some accident could have hemmed in his eyes between inexorable blinkers, and sped him on in a channel ever so worn. Thus balanced between believing and not believing in his own future, he was recalled to the scene without by hearing the notes of a familiar hymn, rising in subdued harmonies from a valley below. He listened more heedfully.
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