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No matter how you might concentrate and apply yourself, you could never be a great poet, a great artist, or a great musician. You have not the creative genius. But law, medicine, mechanics, or mercantile matters, with your good brain and fair education, you could conquer. You say you vacillate from one to another, like the wind which goes to the four points of the compass in twenty-four hours.
The dialogue that was so cheery on the first perusal is utterly uninteresting at a second reading. Yesterday I was sure that there was my monument, and she put her hand upon the manuscript; 'to-day I feel it to be only too heavy for a gravestone! 'One's judgement about one's self always does vacillate, said Mr Alf in a tone as phlegmatic as were the words.
I had entered the room, feeling that Sir Percival Glyde had fair reason to complain of the manner in which she was treating him. I left it, secretly hoping that matters might end in her taking him at his word and claiming her release. A man of my age and experience ought to have known better than to vacillate in this unreasonable manner.
As upon the approach of a tempest there passes through the forests a terrible sound which makes all the trees shudder, to which profound silence succeeds, thus had Napoleon, in passing, shaken the world; kings felt their crowns vacillate in the storm and, raising their hands to steady them, they found only their hair, bristling with terror.
Petitioning on her behalf to Wilfrid for aid, Emilia had told him the scene; and he, with a man's stupidity, alluded to it, not thinking what his knowledge of it revealed to a woman. "Why do you vacillate, and keep us all in the dark as to what you mean?" he began. "I am not prepared," said Cornelia; the voice of humility issuing from a monument. "One of your oracular phrases!
Petitioning on her behalf to Wilfrid for aid, Emilia had told him the scene; and he, with a man's stupidity, alluded to it, not thinking what his knowledge of it revealed to a woman. "Why do you vacillate, and keep us all in the dark as to what you mean?" he began. "I am not prepared," said Cornelia; the voice of humility issuing from a monument. "One of your oracular phrases!
"I can't," she repeated. "I'm firm enough about some things, but in this I vacillate. When I am alone I know I am making a mistake, but when I am with other people who think differently, my objection vanishes." "What is your objection?" he asked. "That is the difficulty," she said. "I can't define it. Do you know Dr. Dan?" "I can't say I know him," he answered. "I have met him and talked to him.
Charged in this way, in the highest court of His nation, and by the representative of His people, He could not hold His peace without inconsistency with the whole tenor of His life and teaching. John, representing His disciples and friends, must be assured that his Master did not vacillate by a hair's-breadth at that supreme moment.
To vacillate, and fail to “propagate through the continents of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, and of Australasia, and as far as the islands of the Pacific” a Message so magnificently proclaimed by it in the American continent would deprive it of the privilege of being “securely established upon the throne of an everlasting dominion.” To forfeit the honor of proclaiming “the advent of the Kingdom of the Lord of Hosts” in “all the five continents of the globe” would silence those “praises of its majesty and greatness” that otherwise would echo throughout “the whole earth.”
His hope was, that, when at length actually arrested by the Jewish authorities, Christ would no longer vacillate; he would be forced into giving the signal to the populace of Jerusalem, who would then have risen unanimously, for the double purpose of placing Christ at the head of an insurrectionary movement, and of throwing off the Roman yoke.
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