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Updated: June 26, 2025
That policy was the wisest and assuredly the most useful for the Peninsula in the extremity to which the inept power it had just escaped from had brought it.
Remember that the men who stocked California in the fifties were physically, and, as far as regards certain tough virtues, the pick of the earth. The inept and the weakly died en route, or went under in the days of construction. To this nucleus were added all the races of the Continent French, Italian, German, and, of course, the Jew.
Although inept efforts have been made to disguise the deceit, the same is unhidden to the eyes of the world. Fortunately it is said that the President has from the very beginning maintained a calm attitude, speaking not his mind on the subject. It is now as easy to turn the tide as the reversing of the palm.
If only it had been Lord Ronald lounging there beside her, how utterly different would have been her attitude! Foolish and inept he might be he was but, as he himself had comfortably remarked, a man might be worse. She trusted him implicitly, every one trusted him. It was impossible to do otherwise.
But nowhere else is there worse cooking in the home, or a more inept handling of the whole domestic economy, or a larger dependence upon the aid of external substitutes, by men provided, for the skill that wanting where it theoretically exists.
Kohn would try hard to be silent: but he could not do it: at once he would begin again to sniffle, sigh, whistle, beat time, hum, imitate the various instruments. And when the piece was ended he would have burst if he had not given Christophe the benefit of his inept comment. He was a queer mixture of German sentimentality, Parisian humbug, and intolerable fatuousness.
But to propose marriage to a weather-beaten haunter of hotels like Lady Sophia Entwistle, and to reveal his identity to her, and to allow her to accept his proposal the thing had been unimaginably inept! And now he was free, for he was dead. He was conscious of a chill in the spine as he dwelt on the awful fate which he had escaped.
Sharp says, this time quoting from Mr. He is in advance of it in every respect but one, the most important of all, the matter of fundamental principles; in these he is behind it. His processes of thought are often scientific in their precision of analysis; the sudden conclusion which he imposes upon them is transcendental and inept. This statement is relatively true. Mr.
In point of fact, a sudden maudlin inspiration had seized Jim Bridger, so that a promise to Kit Carson seemed infinitely less important than a promise to this girl, whom, indeed, with an old man's inept infatuation, he had worshiped afar after the fashion of white men long gone from society of their kind. Liquor now made him bold.
After seven years of inept war in which they had all the breaks, including that of a halfhearted enemy, they established 'upon this continent a new nation. Some of the phrases thrown off in the heat of propaganda were taken seriously and despite shocked opposition written into basic law. "The cryptogram is readable backward or forward, straightaway or upside down.
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