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Splendid brown eyes, added to an exquisite complexion, almost faultless features and a superb carriage, rendered this fair young girl distinguished in any throng. Fortunately she was as yet quite unspoiled, being saved from vanity by a morbid consciousness of her inborn failings and a sincere loathing for the moral weakness that prevented her from correcting those faults.
Suppose Freethought had the upper hand, and served you as you serve us: wouldn't you think it shameful?" "Of course," he blurted. Then, correcting himself, he added: "But you never will get the upper hand." "How do you know?" I asked. "Freethought has the upper hand in France." "Yes," he replied, "but that is an infidel country. It will never be so here."
And they devoted themselves constantly and industriously to the work of correcting the public opinion of the people as to the liquor traffic by demonstrating to them that this trade was in deadly hostility to every interest of the State, while no good came from it, nor could come from it, to State or people.
I accept your explanation of the specific charge gladly, and congratulate you upon correcting an impression that did you injustice." It was Leigh's first meeting in his professional life with that malign experience, injustice in the garb of plausibility, from which there is no appeal. He could not bring himself to acquiesce in silence, though he knew that explanation and protest were vain. "Dr.
But for the very reason that these controversialists wished to be just to Rome, they were bound to be just against her. They meant to be so; but events passed quickly, and leisure never came for a work which involved a serious appeal to history. Vide a striking review in the British Critic, April 1839, partly correcting and guarding the view given in the Tract.
If the blow with which impatient Annie flattered herself she was correcting her younger brother had thrown the naughty little lad out of the boat instead of into the sailor's arms, and he had been drowned at ten years old a murderess, how could she endure for life the weight of her unavailing remorse? I very nearly killed Philip once.
I may add that this supposition of the common nature of our internal experience, as a whole, not only underlies the science of psychology, but is implied in the very process of detecting and correcting errors of introspection. I do not mean that in matters of feeling "authority" is to override "private judgment."
He took great pains in correcting my Spanish, and supplying me with colloquial phrases, and common terms and exclamations, in speaking.
He disdained to put into a salutation all the shades which a courtier ordinarily borrows from the same color the desire to please. Athos knew his own personal value, and bowed to the prince like a man, correcting by something sympathetic and undefinable that which might have appeared offensive to the pride of the highest rank in the inflexibility of his attitude.
Of all the merry sayings in which the Bibliotaph indulged himself at the expense of his closest friend this was the most comforting. A gentleman present was complaining that Henry took liberties in correcting his pronunciation. 'I have no doubt of the occasional need of such correction, but it isn't often required, and not half so often as he seems to think.
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