United States or Kiribati ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This wise young woman, matured by misfortune, observed everything saw everything and exaggerated nothing. She touched, in this letter, on the most delicate points in the household of M. de Camors and even of his secret thoughts with accurate justice.
How will the national workshop, which owes ITS WORKMEN GOOD WAGES, make up this deficit? By emulation, says M. Blanc. M. Blanc points with extreme complacency to the Leclaire establishment, a society of house-painters doing a very successful business, which he regards as a living demonstration of his system.
It was listened to in almost unbroken silence from the beginning to the end not that the speech had not plenty of cleverness in it, the small cleverness of small points but it was badly delivered. It did not seem to rise to the heights expected on such an occasion; in short, it was a disappointment.
He made himself as natural as he could in opening the music-books and moving the candles to the best points for throwing light upon the notes; and all went well till we had played and sung "While shepherds watch," and "Star, arise," and "Hark the glad sound."
John Angus did his best to point out to me the various points of interest we passed. Among the most curious were the Pictie towers, little round edifices built with rough stone, beautifully put together, with passages inside winding up to the top without steps. They were built by a race who inhabited those islands long before the time of which history gives any account.
But it was on these subordinate points that the interest of a certain number of followers of the movement was fastened.
Examining individual trunks would not show this; but looking at a mass, the fact was evident. Now he knew the points of the compass; but of what practical avail was his knowledge? Whether he had wandered from the shanty to the north, south, east, or west, was only conjecture. How could that creek have led him astray?
The policy of making other people afraid of you must have an end, the policy of making others respect and like you can have no end. There is no question which is the natural law of national development. Neither for the individual nor for a nation is it wholesome to increase antagonisms and to lessen the conciliatory points of contact with the world.
When President Wilson enunciated the fourteen points some wiseacres laughed and criticised, but these very points formed the basis of the armistice and the Good Lord only knows how many American lives were saved to say nothing of English, French, Italian and all the rest.
It is very useful sometimes to see the things which one ought to avoid, as it is right to see very often those which one ought to imitate, and my friend Hop's manners will frequently point out to you, what yours ought to be by the rule of contraries. Congreve points out a sort of critics, to whom he says that we are doubly obliged:
Word Of The Day