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The timid man, who will not openly acknowledge his feelings, is practically unable to take cognizance of their gradual transformation. We may add that he is always prone to dream, and peoples his world involuntarily with imaginary utopias, which he begins by considering as desirable, then as possible, and finally as actually existing. This is the starting-point of boastfulness.
Apparently he had taken up a new role, and Alexey did not recognise him in the part. The old man's voice boomed unceasingly. Having nothing to do, he was laying down the law to a customer, telling him how he should order his life and his business, always holding himself up as an example. That boastfulness, that aggressive tone of authority, Laptev had heard ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.
"It was the deciding of a foolish boast." The lad slipped the revolver into his pocket again and refolded his arms. "That was a foolish jest, youngster," Ellerey said. "Do you think such boastfulness fits you for such work as ours?" "There are few who could have done it," was the answer. "True." "Such precision might serve you were your enemies three to one." "True again."
In the language of our Palatine forefathers: Doh is ebbes letz. While therefore recent progress affords ground for encouragement, it is not a time for boastfulness. It is rather a time for self-examination, for an inquiry into our preparedness for new tasks and impending opportunities. We are living in an imperial city.
You have seen me throw apples in the air and send a bullet through every one with this pistol." There was no boastfulness in this, and Velasco knew it to be true. "I would have given you money, Basilio, if you had asked me for it; but to come thus with a knife! You would have killed me, Basilio, and I have never been unkind to you." If he could only remove the dagger from his mouth!
And hence accession of wealth is viewed as that which increaseth covetousness and folly. Wealth alone is the root of niggardliness and boastfulness, pride and fear and anxiety! These are the miseries of men that the wise see in riches! Men undergo infinite miseries in the acquisition and retention of wealth. Its expenditure also is fraught with grief.
This is the impression that his own story makes upon the reader in a narrative that is characterized by the boastfulness and exaggeration of the times, and not fuller of the marvelous than most others of that period. The London to which Smith returned was the London of Shakespeare. We should be thankful for one glimpse of him in this interesting town. Did he frequent the theatre?
You would if you could. Eh? 'I have no lady love, and I can't say. 'If I were to try my hand, says Edwin, with a boyish boastfulness getting up in him, 'on a portrait of Miss Landless in earnest, mind you; in earnest you should see what I could do! 'My sister's consent to sit for it being first got, I suppose? As it never will be got, I am afraid I shall never see what you can do.
It is planned by a higher intelligence than his, only he happens to be the hired labourer chosen to carry out the conception; a sort of mechanic in whom boastfulness looks absurd; as absurd as if one of the stonemasons working at the cornice of a cathedral were to vaunt himself as the designer of the whole edifice.
Thou art come from the sweet-scented gardens of thy youth, thou must go to the ice desert of thine old age; and now thou art full of strength and boastfulness, and thinkest thou shalt perchance be the first mortal who shall cheat death. Go to! Thou shalt die like the rest, the more miserably that thou lovest life more than the others."
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