I maintain, and will to the last hour, that I never writ of you but con amore; that if any allusion was made to your near-sightedness, it was not for the purpose of mocking an infirmity, but of connecting it with scholar-like habits,for is it not erudite and scholarly to be somewhat near of sight before age naturally brings on the malady?

Far-sightedness.

Blindness N. blindness, cecity^, excecation^, amaurosis^, cataract, ablepsy^, ablepsia^, prestriction^; dim-sightedness &c 443; Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena (drop serene), noctograph^, teichopsia^. V. be blind &c adj.; not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged; grope in the dark.

If thou would'st have thy affair decided on principle, go before the councils, or the magistracy of the canton, and thou shalt hear such wisdom, and witness such keen-sightedness into chicanery, as would have honored Solomon himself!"

But the chief obstacle to be encountered in rousing England was sheer short-sightedness.

And on the other hand, it would be an evidence of intellectual short-sightedness on the part of the positivist man of science, if he did not recognize the historical accomplishments, which his predecessors on the field of science have left behind as indelible traces of their struggle against the unknown in that brilliant and irksome domain.

Mr. McLain by earnest long-sightedness and industry succeeded in becoming a well-to-do citizen.