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It was known that Caesar although urbane, merciful, enlightened, hospitable, and disposed to govern for the public good was unscrupulous in the use of tools; that he had originally gained his seat in the Senate by bribery and demagogic arts; that he was reckless as to debts, regarding money only as a means to buy supporters; that he had appropriated vast sums from the spoils of war for his own use, and, from being poor, had become the richest man in the Empire; that he had given his daughter Julia in marriage to Pompey from political ends; that he was long-sighted in his ambition, and would be content with nothing less than the gratification of this insatiate passion.
A normal eye is able, when relaxed, to focus light accurately from objects which are twenty feet or more away and to accommodate itself to objects as near as five inches. An eye is said to be myopic, or short-sighted, when it is unable to focus light waves from distant objects, but can only distinguish the objects which are near at hand. A. Normal eye. B. Long-sighted eye. C. Short-sighted eye.
From the roaring skerry and the wet thwart of the tossing boat, he passes to the stool and desk; and with a memory full of ships, and seas, and perilous headlands, and the shining pharos, he must apply his long-sighted eyes to the petty niceties of drawing, or measure his inaccurate mind with several pages of consecutive figures.
"Why, yes after all, what are these cold calculations about loving or not loving such a character as Colonel Hungerford what is all this wonderfully long-sighted care of your own individual happiness, but selfishness? moral, very moral selfishness, I grant." Caroline coloured, paused, and when she answered, she spoke in a lower and graver tone and manner than usual.
The more distinguished of the New England colonists, with a most remarkable sagacity and a long-sighted reach into futurity, refused to come to America unless they could bring with them charters providing for the administration of their affairs in this country. They saw from the first the evils of being governed in the New World by a power fixed in the Old.
To them, naturally, the half century of this hissing and seething, insurrection and repression, is longer than the five hundred years and more it took to fuse into one the nationalities of England and Wales. What a point of space is a century midway between the ninth and nineteenth! Few are long-sighted enough in historic vision to touch that point with a cambric needle.
Moreover, hundreds of Mormons, without avowing their creed, have gone to Texas, and established themselves there. They save all their crops, and have numerous cattle and droves of horses, undoubtedly to feed and sustain a Mormon army on any future invasion. Let us now examine further into this cunning and long-sighted policy, and we shall admire the great genius that presides over it.
Add to this that he was long-sighted and often missed a candle several times before he succeeded in snuffing it, whereupon the whole of the opening and shutting process had to be repeated, sometimes with no other result than that of snuffing the candle out, which had then to be pulled from its socket and applied to the next for re-illumination.
'If it was at the time when you were issuing from that wood, sir, your surmise is correct, said the young gentleman. 'You are long-sighted, sir! 'I am, sir. 'And so am I. 'And I, said Chloe. 'Our Chloe will distinguish you accurately at a mile, and has done it, observed Mr. Beamish.
In the next letter,* wicked as I am, 'she fears I must be her lord and master. * See Letter XXIX. of this volume. I hope so. She retracts what she said against me in her last. My behaviour to my Rosebud; Miss Harlowe to take possession of Mrs. Fretchville's house; I to stay at Mrs. How do I love to puzzle these long-sighted girls!
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