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Believing that Godkin's thirty-five years of critical work was of great benefit to this country, I have sometimes asked myself whether the fact of his being a foreigner has made it more irritating to many good people, who term his criticism "fault-finding" or "scolding."
Friend. "That's the way my guardian treats me, Mrs. Friend. How can I take him seriously?" "I think Lord Buntingford meant it as a compliment didn't he?" said Mrs. Friend shyly. She knew, alack, that she had no gift for repartee. "Oh, no, he never pays compliments least of all to me. He has a most critical, fault-finding mind. Haven't you, Cousin Philip?"
For a time the old man muttered angrily beneath his breath, and then, becoming mollified by the boy's silence, he looked kindly down on the small red head at his elbow. "You ain't said howdy, honey," he remarked in a fault-finding tone. "Dar ain' no manners dese days, nohow.
She despised him for all that she read of his life in that encounter face to face the drinking, the gambling, the cheap, false amusements, and the painted woman at his side. And when he returned, after ignoring her letters and allowing his mining claim to lapse, and resumed his fault-finding complaints she had put him back in his place.
And reflect that every stage in perfection which you reach will advance you in this holy and true judgment, free from offence or pain. So, on the contrary, false judgment betrays you into every sort of pain, and fault-finding and ruinous faithlessness toward the servants of God. All this proceeds from the personal passion and rooted pride which impels us to judge the will of our fellow-man.
I'd like to know what good all your geology and botany and those other horrid things ever did you. You couldn't make a cent out of all them put together. You're always paying expressage on fossils and bugs and sea-weeds and trash. All that comes of it is just waste." "Does anything but waste come of your fault-finding?" "Now, who's finding fault?" Dr.
Under such circumstances it was rather an exhibition of independence and courage that Lincoln reached the conclusion of relieving the fort at all, than it was a cause of fault-finding that he did not come to the conclusion sooner.
Colbert rightly felt that fault-finding letters were not sufficient to keep within bounds a temperament as fiery as that of the governor of Canada; on the other hand, a man of Frontenac's worth was too valuable to the colony to think of dispensing with his services.
You, who have received these powers free and as your own, use them not; you do not even see what you have received, and from whom; some of you being blinded to the giver, and not even acknowledging your benefactor, and others, through meanness of spirit, betaking yourselves to fault-finding and making charges against God.
And if so what has it to do with the man whose name is unceasingly upon thy lips?" Jill stood like a statue of disdain. "What is the matter now, Hahmed? Please understand that I will not tolerate such continual fault-finding any longer!
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