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And although he is fortunate on so many counts, and good fortune is often associated with boastfulness, it has never yet been my lot to meet any man so far removed from this vice. But I must return to recounting his studies it was these which chiefly brought More and myself together.
"By this means he, alone of the three, was able to cross the gulf in which his two companions had perished." Effrontery and boastfulness have often another source.
There was a boastfulness, an exaggeration, and a pedantry, which are by no means necessary accompaniments of superior attainments. The pupils have a disrespectful, familiar, and independent air, though I understood that the punishments are more severe than are generally approved of in English schools. The course of instruction is very complete.
But don't try on any boarding tricks, or you will be the worse for it." The meeting between the two skippers, notwithstanding the cause, was good-humoured enough, for Portveldt, apart from his boastfulness, was not a bad fellow. "No, no," answered Foster, "I am not so bad as all that Come below and have a glass of grog."
I should like to see a magnetizer, or even a Raj-Yogi, inducing me to obey his will." "Now, my dear fellow, you really ought not to speak so rashly," said the colonel, who, till then, had not taken any part in the discussion. "Ought I not? Don't take it into your head that it is mere boastfulness on my part.
Of course, I see that the mouth-piece is loose, but a piece of blotting-paper would remedy that. His meerschaum is not such a good one as Jimmy's. Though Jimmy's boastfulness about his meerschaum was hard to bear, none of us ever denied the pipe's worth. The man through the wall has not a cherry-wood stem to his meerschaum, and consequently it is too light.
Closely allied to the foregoing is the observance of a due mean, in the matter of Boastfulness. The balance of the two is the straightforward and truthful character; asserting just what belongs to him, neither more nor less.
"I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero," he says, "and of any other more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan!" Praise certainly quite high enough, for a mixture of lamentation and boastfulness.
"I don't care," sez he, "what she sez! if she don't like it she can lump it!" But I could see that the tippin' sides wuz done through a mistake, and he wuz tryin' to cover it up with a mantilly of bravado and boastfulness. I agin kep' silence for quite a spell, and my next words, so fur as I remember 'em, wuz, "Where is the suller?" He stood agast and repeated, "The suller!"
For when men find that the deed itself is inassailable they attack the boastfulness of the doer, and hence if you commit anything to be ashamed of, the deed itself is blamed, while if you perform anything deserving of praise, you are blamed for not having kept silence upon it. Beyond all this, however, there is a special obstacle in the way of publishing the speech.
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