I myself, in my own circle, am far better pleased to endure faults and mistakes, till I know what the opposite virtue is that I am to enjoin, than to be rid of the faults and to have nothing good to put in their place.

I myself, in my own circle, am far better pleased to endure faults and mistakes, till I know what the opposite virtue is that I am to enjoin, than to be rid of the faults and to have nothing good to put in their place.

It is indeed an advantage to have one's faults made clear.

He smiled in the gracious fashion which made all who came within his personal influence forget his faults and remember him only as the impersonation of dignity and of courtesy.

They have our passions and our faults, but a thousand times multiplied, for they walk in darkness and dwell in hypocrisy.

The faults in the dust strata in these surfaces are very mysterious and should be instructive in the explanation of certain ice problems.

I went along the shore of the North Bay and climbed to the glacier over one of the drifted faults in the ice face.

We have not yet a satisfactory explanation of the broad roadway faults that traverse every small eminence in our immediate region.

Besides several grammatical faults, elsewhere noticed, these extracts exhibit, first, the inconsistent notionof "duplicates with a difference;" or, as Churchill expresses it, of "two distinct species of each foot;" (New Gram., p. 189;) and here we are gravely assured withal, that these different sorts, which have no separate names, are sometimes forsooth, "exactly of the same nature"!

In ages less visionary, which are given to ease and enjoyment, the tendency is to bring a great man down to the common level, and to discover or invent faults which shall show that he is or was but a little man after all.

Both alike, however, were the product of the gossip, the embodied littleness of human nature endeavouring then, as always, to minimize and discredit the strong man, who, whatever his actual faults, at least strenuously shoulders for his fellows the hard work of the world.

He classes himself as one of the blunderers he would portray, as having the faults and foibles he finds in others.

Yet all in all, with his many faults, it is to be said that his idealism, which was not of a high type, made him a true interpreter of life.

Whatever faults they might have they tried to wash them clean by charity, full- hearted and overflowing, for the wounded sons of France.

The soul of France has not been destroyed by this war, and no German guns shattering the beauty of old towns and strewing the northern fields with the bodies of beautiful young manhood could be victorious over this nation, which, with all her faults, her incredulities and passions, has at the core a spiritual fervour which lifts it above the clay of life.

M. Héger no more cured her of its faults that he could teach her its splendours.

Pope gained but little in the warfare he waged with him, for this plain reasonthat the great poet accuses his adversary of dullness, which was not by any means one of his sins, instead of selecting one of the numerous faults, such as pertness, petulance, and presumption, of which he was really guilty.

If those Speeches and Actions, which in their own Nature are indifferent, appear ridiculous when they proceed from a wrong Sex, the Faults and Imperfections of one Sex transplanted into another, appear black and monstrous.

He made me promise I wouldn't throw him over, as he called it, for his faults.

With all his faults he's a nice man.

Both works are distinguished by a spirit of puerile cavil, which would of itself almost suffice to reconcile us to the worst faults of the poet.

Before it, indications, waywardnesses, the faults of a young and petted wife.

But she was far away: and as he worked at the completion of his series of 'Months,' or at various portraits which the kindness or compassion of old friends had procured for him, he fell headlong into all his worst faults.

Mannerisms grown to absurdity; faults of early training writ dismally large; vulgarity of conception and carelessness of executionno stone that could hurt or sting was left unflung, and the note of meditative pity in which the article came to an end, marked the climax of a very neat revenge.

To avoid the faults of both the ordinary contract and the day-wage system, a plan, clumsily called The Co-operative Contract System, has been adopted by the present Premier, Mr. Seddon.