The result has shown his discernment.

They are yet, to a great extent, in the mould of a corrupted public opinion; and, as far from having a clear discernment of moral truth, as were the partially unsealed eyes which saw "men, as trees, walking."

though this is wishing a child to possess the discernment and intelligence of a woman.

Apart from the approval that friendship inspires, she had always admired the cool discernment of events which he showed when great things were at stake.

To deny this discernment is to throw the doors open to unqualified scepticism; to admit it, is all that we need for the validity of our inference.

We find here three considerations which claim our attention: An enlightened preacher, who discovers a very peculiar discernment in the selection of his subject; a conscience appalled and confounded on the recollection of its crimes and of that awful judgment where they must be weighed, a sinner alarmed, but not converted; a sinner who desires to be saved, but delays his conversion: a case, alas!

The result has shewn how safe is this reliance upon the patriotic temper and enlightened discernment of the people.

Beside the quite young who are merely panting to express themselves, stand the mature who exercise an esthetic discernment, even as regards their own peculiar experience; finally, there are also the older men who have already said their say.

Lord Monboddo was considered an able lawyer, and on many occasions exhibited a very clear and correct judicial discernment of intricate cases.

Demodocus came and reached his harp, where it hung between two pillars of silver: and then the blind singer, to whom, in recompense of his lost sight, the muses had given an inward discernment, a soul and a voice to excite the hearts of men and gods to delight, began in grave and solemn strains to sing the glories of men highliest famed.

The first illustrates Scottish acute discernment.

A flash of light was vouchsafed him for the purpose; but the light left him no power to impart the discernment; nor did he feel any longer impatient for the gift.

But results soon justified the discernment of Barras.

The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any sort of reflection, and very properly mistrust their own discernment.

It did not need much discernment to judge that those in authority were ready to deal swiftly with any kind of trouble.

It showed his dogged honesty, (though, observe, not his discernment,) that he could not see my merits.

For, as Goethe says in the West-östlicher Divan, a man can get no recognition, either from many persons or from only one, unless it is to publish abroad the critic's own discernment: Denn es ist kein Anerkenen, Weder Vieler, noch des Einen, Wenn es nicht am Tage fördert, Wo man selbst was möchte scheinen.

You are very sharp to-night: the extra duty has quickened your discernment.

He will then regain that spiritual discernment which he acquired in his former body; and so he will strive harder than ever for perfection.

To treat of this important subject adequately and convincingly, one would require the masterly discernment of a skillful and accomplished tailor, the experienced knowledge of a well-dressed man, and the alertly critical perception of a loving woman who, even in the matter of clothes, wishes the dearest of men to her, to do full justice to himself and her ideal of him on all occasions.

We cannot unite the incompatible advantages of reality and deception, the clear discernment of truth and the exquisite enjoyment of fiction.

By remembering that horizontal trimmings apparently decrease the height, and that vertical lines add to it, those who desire to appear at their best will use discernment in dividing their basques with yokes, or corsage mountings at the bust-line or frills at the hip-line.

The spirit (it said) which Dante beheld in the pupil was that of the royal singer who danced before the ark, now enjoying the reward of his superiority to vulgar discernment.

And I waited no more than a hundred seconds in her presence to applaud his discernment.

'You're getting reconciled, then,' said Hobart, 'to working for the Pinkerton press?' Jane secretly approved his discernment.