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His nephew was not a young man whom he respected very highly. Spennie regarded his uncle with nervous apprehension, as one who would deal with his short-comings with vigor and severity. Sir Thomas, for his part, looked on Spennie as a youth who would get into mischief unless under his uncle's eye. "I had a telegram from him just now," Lady Julia explained. "Who is his friend?" "He doesn't say.
With what agonizing doubts are they not filled by such flagrant contradictions! How much is their anguish increased by the jeering mockery of those who repeat: "Poetry is only that which might have been" and who delight in blaspheming it by their guilty negations! Whatever may be the human short-comings of the gifted, believe the truths they sing!
Jordon at all conscious of the extent of her short-comings, very many of which, in fact, are indirect, so far as she is concerned, and arise from her general sanction of the borrowing system. I do not suppose, for a moment, that she knows about everything that is borrowed." "If she doesn't, pray who does?" inquired my husband. "Her servants.
Really good execution, he thought, was at all times a rare thing, but short-comings might be disguised if care was taken that they should not appear very prominent; and the best way to do this was "to get over the ground quickly." This can hardly have been a casual view, accidentally mentioned in conversation.
"The whole department of amusements certainly one of the most important in education has been by the Church made a sort of outlaws' ground, to be taken possession of and held by all sorts of spiritual ragamuffins; and then the faults and short-comings resulting from this arrangement have been held up and insisted on as reasons why no Christian should ever venture into it.
Who can tell another's short-comings, lost opportunities, weigh the passions which overpower, the defects which incapacitate reason? what extent of truth and right his neighbor's mind is organized to perceive and to do? what invisible and forgotten accident, terror of youth, chance or mischance of fortune, may have altered the whole current of life?
Each is God's revelation, and so far as we have understood it, that revelation is of the utmost importance in our lives. Each has all the inherent short-comings of man's interpretation. Each has all the difficulties necessarily found in any stage of a developing understanding.
Stanton insisted that she should not remain buried in Kansas and concluded a long letter: I hope in a short time to be comfortably located in a new house where we will have a room ready for you when you come East. I long to put my arms around you once more and hear you scold me for my sins and short-comings.
But when we reflect what life is, how deep in the soul, how wide in the world, how complicated and delicate in its affairs and ties, and when, we consider what religion is, the whole truth of heaven respecting all the operations of earth, a kindly judgment is required for unavoidable short-comings and ministerial mistakes.
And so I was led on in the Article to that sharp attack on English Catholics for their short-comings as regards this note, a good portion of which I have already quoted in another place.
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