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On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature, and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.
One who reads these papers regularly comes to know them even in their wrappers, though to an unpracticed eye the wrappers seem much alike.
He accordingly went into the grocery and bought some crackers and cheese, which he sat down by the stove and ate. "Are you going farther?" asked the same young man who had questioned him before. "I shall go back to Newark to-night," said Phil. "Let me try your violin." "Can you play?" asked Phil, doubtfully, for he feared that an unpracticed player might injure the instrument. "Yes, I can play.
She must have known that she was very attractive, for few girls reach her age without attaining such knowledge; but her observer, and in a certain sense her critic, could not detect the faintest trace of affectation or self-consciousness. Her manner, her words, and even their accent seemed unstudied, unpracticed, and unmodelled after any received type.
The dark reddish color of the hair of his skin, dashed with blackish tints, harmonized and blended well with the hue of the bark, so that at a distance, to an unpracticed eye, he appeared like a huge excrescence on the tree, or a large butt of a branch that had lodged in its fall. The young man did not hesitate what to do.
Edward was not very well situated for accurate observation; but though he was at the first glance deceived by the brilliancy of the girl's colour, heightened as it was by the excitement of the moment, his unpracticed eye soon detected unequivocal marks of the Indian race, accompanied and softened by traits of fairer blood.
We made it in less than a day, but I would counsel the unpracticed if not pressed for time to allow themselves two. Nothing is gained in the Alps by over-exertion; nothing is gained by crowding two days' work into one for the poor sake of being able to boast of the exploit afterward.
The chance course of the bullet, urged by Romayne's unpracticed hand, had struck the General's son just above the right nostril had penetrated to the back of his neck and had communicated a fatal shock to the spinal marrow. He was a dead man before they could take him back to his father's house. So far, our fears were confirmed.
Gerald, in choosing pictures for their enjoyment, avoided with a conscientiousness of very special brand to halt with them before paintings fit to please their unpracticed eyes but which he did not think worthy of admiration.
She did not suspect that she was submitting one of those knotty problems to her unpracticed judgment that philosophers and theologians delight in disagreeing upon, and her inability to unravel it staggered her.
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