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I had taken my estimate of the great Protector's character largely from Carlyle's famous book, and you can judge with what feelings I heard the canon's comparison. And, besides, I had been wont to think of the Protector as having entered largely into John Bunyan's portrait of Greatheart, the pilgrim guide. And the researches and the judgments of Dr.
The lesser judges, on the other hand, are paid nothing, for it is wisely pointed out that a man who is paid nothing and who volunteers his services to the State will not be the kind of a man who would take a bribe or who would consider social differences in his judgments. In this way they obtain both kinds of judges, and, oddly enough, each kind speaks, acts, and lives much as does the other.
It is by her that men of all ages and countries are, as it were, chained about an immovable centre, and held in the bonds of amity by certain invariable rules, called first principles, notwithstanding the infinite variations of opinions that arise in them from their passion, avocations, and caprices, which over-rule all their other less-clear judgments.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake." What follows? They shall deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you. Many shall be offended, and shall betray one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and deceive many." To wait for God in the way of his judgments doth well become a Christian.
But Sam Lucas did that unusual thing. He stood pointing at her, his jaw trembling as if the intensity of his passion had palsied his tongue. "Gentlemen of the jury, what part this woman played in that dark night's work the world may never know," said he. "But the world is not blind, and its judgments are usually justified by time.
"And now," said D'Artagnan to Athos, "entertain no further doubts about me; I undertake all that concerns the king." Whitehall. The parliament condemned Charles to death, as might have been foreseen. Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain to the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.
The slanderer is plainly a fool, because he maketh wrong judgments and valuations of things, and accordingly driveth on silly bargains for himself, in result whereof he proveth a great loser.
Like most men of his age, Stephen Culpeper was inclined to swift impressions rather than hasty judgments of people; and he was conscious, while he listened in silence to the murmuring explanations of the girl, that the immediate effect was a sensation, not an idea.
The proud fabric of his own weaving would descend in the fullness of time to a woman. And Howard himself old Anthony was pitilessly hard in his judgments Howard was not a strong man. A good man. A good son, better than he deserved. But amiable, kindly, without force. Once the cloud had lifted, and only once. Elinor had come home to have a child.
Such a woman should be able to sit in judgment upon herself; and remembering that in a great city, at a crowded theatre, or at a watering-place, judgments must be hasty and superficial, she should tone down her natural exuberance, and take with her a female companion who is of a different type from herself.
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