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Pomfret published his poems in the year 1690, to which he has prefixed a very modest and sensible preface, 'I am not so fond of fame, says he, as to desire it from the injudicious many; nor as so mortified a temper as not to wish it from the discerning few. 'Tis not the multitude of applauders, but the good fame of the applauders, which establishes a valuable reputation.
If, therefore, his injudicious admirers should insist, without any reference to his origin or culture, on extolling his writings as works submitted, without apology or excuse, to the mature judgment and formed taste they can only peril the reputation they seek to magnify.
Partners in failing concerns are apt to dispute; in this instance the unpleasantness which arose at the time rankled in the mind of the survivor, and gave rise to his singularly tasteless and injudicious book a performance which can be only in part condoned by the fact of Hunt's afterwards expressing regret, and practically withdrawing it.
"Upon this latter point," said Madame Lalande, laughingly, "you have been surely injudicious in coming to confession; for, without the confession, I take it for granted that no one would have accused you of the crime.
He had been too long and too well known as the soul of honour and integrity, for one doubt or aspersion to be cast upon his name. Lady Helen's injudicious conduct towards her children was indeed often blamed, and Grahame's own severity much regretted, but it was much more of sympathy he now commanded than scorn or suspicion, and all his friends lamented his retirement.
The common custom of introducing them after dinner is highly injudicious. It is agreeable enough that they should appear at any other time; but they should not be suffered to poison the moments of festivity by attracting the attention of the company, and in a manner compelling them from politeness to say what they do not think. BOSWELL. See ante, p. 28.
If the skin is cut, a dry dressing of tannoform, which is a powder that can be got from a chemist, will be found a good and speedy remedy; and is also useful for cuts in horses. It would be injudicious to ride again, or to have an injured hunter ridden again, until such an abrasion has healed.
As you well know, the secret of all my successes is that I never leave anything to chance." "To go peeping about outside the house and trying to took in at lighted windows sounds a rather injudicious proceeding," his companion declared. "Not if proper precautions are taken, as I took them. I was weeks in that terribly dull Scotch village, but nobody suspected my real mission.
"They do say, Miss Merton, the English lady that made so much noise in New York let me see, Mr. Brigham, what Earl's grand-daughter did we hear she was? This was a most injudicious question, as it gave the husband an opportunity to take the word out of her mouth. "Lord Cumberland's, I believe, or some such person -but, no matter whose.
'The sight of self indulgence spoils more than injudicious care does. Besides, I look on these experiments as giving experience. 'Nice experience of my best efforts! 'Pardon me, Fitzjocelyn, have we seen your best? 'I hope you will! said Louis, vigorously. 'And to begin, will you tell this poor boy to come to me? Mr.
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