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A matter of training and habit, because I began life as a short-sighted lad. Do we need your assistant further?" In indirect answer to the pointed question, the Dop Doctor turned to the Dutch dispensary-assistant, and said curtly: "Ga uit!" Koets went, not without a scowl at the visitor.
Go right to 110 Hollis Street and ask for 'Persian. If the cat looks enough like Fatima, buy it and take it to Aunt Cynthia. If it doesn't but it must! You'll go, won't you?" "That depends," said Max. I stared at him. This was so unlike Max. "You are sending me on a nasty errand," he said, coolly. "How do I know that Aunt Cynthia will be deceived after all, even if she be short-sighted.
It is unfortunate that I am so often compelled to corroborate your statements, when all the acumen with which you credit my mind is turned towards the task of proving you a purse-proud fool, puffed up in your own conceit, and as short-sighted as an owl in the summer sunlight. However, let us stick to our text.
Before the winter concluded he had been to Washington, and explaining to the officers of our own government the importance of his invention, sought permission to test it on a government vessel. After many delays, with that short-sighted policy which cannot look beyond the present expense to the overpaying results, the proposition was declined.
It will be well if the foreign seamen have sufficient forbearance to refrain from revenging by acts of hostility to the state the deception and breach of promise which they experienced from San Martin, and that destitute condition to which they were reduced, especially during the last six months of my stay at Valparaiso, by similar frauds on the part of Rodriguez, who, I believe, as Minister of Finance, has been actuated by the hope of compelling the men to abandon their country without remuneration for their services, when they appeared to him and to other short-sighted individuals to be no longer useful.
The world is full of God's instruments, and He sends punishments by the ordinary play of motives and circumstances, which we best understand when we see behind all His mighty hand and sovereign will. The short-sighted view of history says 'Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem B.C. so and so, and then discourses about the tendencies of which Babylonia was exponent and creature.
And while these talked to one another, or to some visitor from neighboring hotels, little Lib would sit motionless and silent by the hour. One would scarcely call it listening; to listen seems too active a verb in this case. The girl's face wore no eager look of interest, the faded, short-sighted eyes did not light up with intelligence, nor the features quiver with varied emotions.
The proper course, therefore, for him to pursue in order to bring the child's mind into harmony with his own, is not to ridicule the boy's reasoning, or chide him for taking so short-sighted a view of the subject, or to tell him it is very foolish for him to talk as he does, or silence him by a dogmatic decision, delivered in a dictatorial and overbearing manner, all of which is too often found to characterize the discussions between parents and children, but calmly and quietly to present to him the considerations bearing upon the question which he has not yet seen.
She did not understand that this had been a clumsy and short-sighted strategy, that, finding her more difficult than other mountain girls the handsome, sturdy young hill-dweller had not been without his conquests among the maidens of his kind; only Madge had baffled him he had feared that, now when the railroad building in the valley had brought so many "foreigners" into the neighborhood, one of them might fascinate her, and it had been to guard against this, as well as he was able, that he had spoken slightingly of the whole class.
The animal is the same, whether milked in the Park or at Islington. PERCY. 'Pennant does not describe well; a carrier who goes along the side of Lochlomond would describe it better. JOHNSON. 'I think he describes very well. PERCY. 'I travelled after him. JOHNSON. 'And I travelled after him. PERCY. 'But, my good friend, you are short-sighted, and do not see so well as I do. I wondered at Dr.
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