7 Words to use with criticisms

Criticism charts and notebook for use with Speech improvement.

I say all this occurred to me; but I also happened to recollect the story told of the survivor of Bull Run, who replied to a sneering criticism anent the Federal retreat from that famous field by the sententious rejoinder that "all them as didn't run was there yet,"and I felt that I could fully appreciate the point.

The dogmas which criticism attacks are not for these poor people 'the object of an explicit affirmation,' and therefore there is no harm in them; 'it is the privilege of pure sentiment to be invulnerable, and to play with poison without being hurt by it.'

Nor would such general criticism accord with the plan of this work.

How can we hope to establish a system of elemental pronunciation in a language, when great masters in criticism condemn at once every attempt, in so simple and useful a labour as the correction of its orthography!"P. 256.

" The two women entered, looked about with the complaisance of those who examine a hotel property, find criticism incumbent, and have no errand.

This is a just fear if criticism merely springs from the critics' personal likings or prejudices, but no such evil effects need be feared if the criticism springs from deep thought, from knowledge of the facts and from the patience and wisdom which thought and knowledge bring.

7 Words to use with  criticisms