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"But I'd much rather have the money than the beads even if a dozen queens wore them." Her sound practicalness rang harshly in the exotic atmosphere of the room. "I explained to Mr. Dominez your situation and your ambition," Cornelius Allendyce put in almost apologetically. "Mr. Allendyce will represent you in this deal, Miss Lynch, if you care to think the sale over.
As it stands, it is neither academic nor practical." Brande looked at me earnestly for a moment, and then said gravely: "The academic value of the explanation will be shown to you if you will join a society I have founded; and its practicalness will soon be made plain whether you join or not." "What do you call this club of yours?" I asked. "We do not call it a club.
His lofty and eloquent plaints on the decline of social freedom helped to strengthen the charge of want of practicalness, which in our day is so injurious to a man's political influence, and when he entered Parliament, although he disappointed none of those who best understood him, the outside multitude, who had begun to look on him as a prophet, were somewhat chagrined that he was not readier in parrying the thrusts of the trained gladiators of the House of Commons.
I think you are a young person of good sense, and practicalness, or if you prefer, of good practical sense, who knows very well how to arrange her pastime, to amuse people, to hide her views, to lay her snares, and who, without hurrying, awaits events." "Is that all?" she asked. "That's all." Then she said with a serious earnestness: "I shall make you change that opinion, Muscade."
No man has ever been able to say, or now can say, that he is before Webster. The youngest men in the nation look to him, not as representing the past, but as leading in the future. This practicalness and readiness of adaptation are instinctive, not voluntary and designed. They are united with the most decided preference for certain opinions and the most earnest averseness to others.
Greece appears to have had the combination of philosophy and practicalness that favors the production of a certain sort of abstract gods, and a considerable number of these it did produce; but here also philosophy, in the form of large theories of the constitution and life of man, got the upper hand and repressed the other development.
Politically, there was nearly as much divergence between Mazzini and Garibaldi as between Mazzini and Cavour; the master thought the pupil lacked ideality, the pupil thought the master lacked practicalness; but they were at one in the love of their land and in the desire to serve her.
A straightforward, honest, simple fellow looked he, all utility and practicalness if there is such a word. One, plain in all ways. It was Janus Verner never, in the memory of anybody, called anything but "Jan" second and youngest son of Lady Verner, brother to Lionel. He brother to courtly Lionel, to stately Decima, son to refined Lady Verner?
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