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Updated: June 13, 2025
He jokes without difficulty; talks without in the least monopolising the conversation; shows himself often willing to live and let live; and is on the whole as different a person as possible from the Macaulay who is sure that "every schoolboy" knows better than the author he is reviewing, and who finds Johnson guilty of superstition and Swift of apostasy.
And in this you must have the courage of your opinions and be prepared for criticisms. Those who are against me are more numerous than those who are for me and my methods. Only last month a distinguished New York daily paper, in reviewing a recent exhibition, said: "There really is nothing left to say about Mr. Smith's water-colors.
"And the Peacock is gone, too. What shall I do next?" It was far from an easy question to answer, and he sat motionless for the best part of half an hour, reviewing the situation. Then he leaped up. "I must get the authorities to aid me," he thought. "I should have done this before." He walked along the docks until he came to a street leading to the nearest police station.
He was somewhat choice in his tailors, and his clothes fitted him and suited him well. He was reviewing the general effect in the glass with a complacent and rather égrillarde expression in his little eyes, when between him and his partie fine rose the apparition of the colonel, like that of the commander before a bolder profligate.
And it was Professor John C. Van Dyke who declared the other day, in reviewing the artistic career of Landseer, that he made his dogs too human. It was the Great Creator himself who made dogs too human so human that sometimes they put humanity to shame.
One day in the first year of his reign, after reviewing a number of regiments, he was seen by his special favorite, Charles Piper, in a spell of abstraction. "May I ask your Majesty," said Piper, "of what you are thinking so deeply?"
In reviewing Walford's statistics we must remember that it has only been in recent years that the middle and lower classes of people have taken insurance on their lives. Formerly only the wealthy and those exposed to early demise were in the habit of insuring. Dr.
"Pal," he said, casting his voice over his shoulder, "did you happen to read in the paper this morning that the police commissioner the new one, the one that was appointed while we were in France would be in the reviewing stand to-day?" "No, I didn't read it; but wot of it?" answered the person addressed.
To achieve this aim, Bernadotte, who, it must be said, had a talent for making himself liked by both officers and men, went about the provinces of his command, reviewing troops and using every means to increase their attachment to him.
It would be unworthy of the United States to inaugurate the possibilities of such result by measures of questionable right or expediency or by any indirection. Turning to the practical aspects of a recognition of belligerency and reviewing its inconveniences and positive dangers, still further pertinent considerations appear.
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