I have often noticed little faults of manners or breeding, which would shock one in a representative of an older civilisation, pass quite unnoticed, or merely provoke a smile of amusement.

There was nothing but sympathy felt for this handsome woman, who throughout had been more sinned against than sinning, and whose gravest fault seems to have been a total lack of intelligence in dealing with her own life.

He finds something amiss in the air "With ravished ears," but has overlooked, or forgotten, the grossest fault in that composition, which is that in this line: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries," He has laid much stress upon the two latter words, which are merely words of connexion, and ought, in musick, to be considered as parenthetical.

Then show him how to reform his ways, and you might offer to take charge of the concern and cleanse it of its secret faults.

But these things come over us like grievous faults when the object of our affection is gone for ever.

In the sense in which a hard task-master is not content with his slave, when he flogs him cruelly for the slightest fault?

His characteristic faults are the excess of a lively, unguarded temperament:oh! let them not degenerate into cold-blooded, heartless vices!

THE COUNTRYMAN AND JUPITER. TO MYSELF. Have you a friend (look round and spy) So fond, so prepossessed as I? Your faults, so obvious to mankind, My partial eyes could never find.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I love her not for what she is to me, but for what she is in herself, for what she really is, rather than for what she seems,for the strength and the heroism of her heart, which I see through all the glaring, commonplace faults, which she is at no pains to hide.

I felt my cue, and strong pity working at the root, I went to work and beslabber'd "Alfred" with most unqualified praise, or only qualifying my praise by the occasional polite interposition of an exception taken against trivial faults, slips, and human imperfections, which, by removing the appearance of insincerity, did but in truth heighten the relish.

But, admitting that these were far from being venial faults, yet it would be very uncharitable now to recall them from the forgetfulness and f

Simulata sanctitas duplex iniquitas; they are in a double fault, "that fashion themselves to this world," which Paul forbids, and like Mercury, the planet, are good with good, bad with bad.

It is somewhat remarkable that Froebel anticipated even the conclusions of modern psycho-analysis in his views about childish faults.

The principal faults, as I observed to you, are in the language and composition.

His enlarged and enlightened intellect was sullied by hypocrisy, dissimulation, and treachery, accompanied by minor faults with which every one is familiar, but which are often overlooked in the immense services he rendered to his country and to civilization.

Her easy fashion of treating love, her accessibility, her indulgence for your numerous faults, the freedom with which she mocks the Platonicians, all this encouraged you to hope that she was not very severe, but you have just discovered your mistake.

His want of wisdom was shown (we may assume) by the grave blemishes and defects in his Endymion, the wilful faults and perverse excesses and extravagances which mark its composition, and wantonly invited attack.

If you threw me your veil to save me from drowning, how would you feel if my first words to you were:'No one must think I could not swim, therefore even the household must believe you, in unveiling, guilty of an unpardonable fault'?...

Hence, it will be found that the fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice.

It was intended to lead men from Christianity with its original sin to a new conception of the world as a place which can be made agreeable and in which the actual evils are due not to radical faults of human nature but to perverse institutions and perverse education.

Yet he was a very interesting man, and had fewer faults than Napoleon, with equally grand designs.

Besides, I dwell not in this study, Non hic sulcos ducimus, non hoc pulvere desudamus, I am but a smatterer, I confess, a stranger, here and there I pull a flower; I do easily grant, if a rigid censurer should criticise on this which I have writ, he should not find three sole faults, as Scaliger in Terence, but three hundred.

She was tenderly attached to her handsome husband, ignorant of his infidelities, and blind to his fatal faults of character.

Critically speaking, the most prominent fault in the book is the occasional interpolation of matter not connected directly with its argument.