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In all history it may be doubted whether success can be traced more clearly to long and careful preparation than in Watt's case. When we investigate, for instance, this seeming sleight-of-hand triumph with the organs, we find that upon agreeing to make the first, Watt immediately devoted himself to a study of the laws of harmony, making science supplement his lack of the musical ear.
In regard to many of the old Roman gods they know absolutely nothing, and try to disguise their ignorance behind a show of learning based on etymological sleight-of-hand; in regard to the rest their information is so tangled with Greek ideas that it is often almost impossible to unravel the mass and separate the old from the new.
"Was effected by the sublime simplicity of barter. At one sweep were swept away all that monstrous credit system which had created an army of accountants and a Court of bankruptcy; all that chaos of single and double-faced entry all that sleight-of-hand abracadabra of signatures all those paper phantoms of capital. The Stock Exchange and other gambling-hells shrivelled up.
These and other facts before related, we give on the authority of the "Biographie Universelle." Paganini certainly was a man of genius and a great performer, but sacrificed his art to his avarice. His mastery over the violin was almost marvellous, though he made an ignoble use of his power by employing it to captivate the mob of pretended amateurs by feats little better than sleight-of-hand.
There are also public exhibitions of acrobats in wrestling, fencing, and the like, while others are devoted entirely to sleight-of-hand tricks, very good of their kind. The porcelain manufactories of Kioto were found interesting, everything being done, however, by the patient and slow process of hand labor, with the crudest of tools.
"It seemed to me afterward that I had been very stupid. It all was so quick! Almost like sleight-of-hand." "You were up against experts, sonny," Mr. Inspector remarked more gently than he had yet spoken. "You did well to detect them at all. Now fire ahead with your yarn."
It's all mystery and sleight-of-hand and the confidence trick medicine is and if you haven't got just the right twist of the wrist, you're not in it. But an artist stands on his merits. There is his work done by his own hands. It speaks for itself. There's no deception it's easy enough to tell whether it's good or bad. If the pictures are good, people buy them.
At the same time a sleight-of-hand man was doing a variety of tricks very skilfully, and acrobats were mounting on each other's shoulders, and pitching themselves about very promiscuously.
Now and then Joe introduced something new in the way of a trick, for he still kept up his sleight-of-hand practice, not knowing when it might be useful. He could not do much of that under water, but what he did do was novel in effect. Lizzie, too, was very teachable, and she and Joe became great friends.
Just think: after five years of desertion, and trouble without end, and it all put right by a little sleight-of-hand. Shall I open it?" She held the letter up. Mona nodded almost eagerly now, for come of a subtle, social world far away, she still was no match for the subtlety of the wilds or was it the cunning the wild things know?
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