The dog is not a wild, untrammeled animal; and neither dogs, cats nor savage men evince any special discernment "beyond the range of their daily experience.
His fame was for unfailing equity, which--together with strange powers of discernment and bewildering kindness--had won for him the profound devotion of the people.
The present Mrs. Hichens smiled as she added: "I've heard that she has a fine discernment of men.
And in what way does he who thinks that wisdom is the discernment of the tempers and tastes of the motley multitude, whether in painting or music, or, finally, in politics, differ from him whom I have been describing?
And granting that our defectiveness forbids our having a full and complete discernment of the fact, why should we doubt that our discernment is right so far as it goes?
God will give you a wise discernment as to food and drink, and all the pleasures of life.
Even his mother, a woman of keen discernment and delicate intuitions, had been deceived by this girl's specious exterior.
If he had not been so much upon his guard and Rena so much absorbed by thoughts of her future work, such a drive would have furnished a person of her discernment a very fair measure of the man's character.
We do not often get the pleasure of handling such a lively and thrilling story, and can feel a due measure of gratitude for the anonymous "mere adapter" to whose discernment and enterprise we are indebted for having brought it to our notice.
Hence discernment of spirits was a valued and needful gift, and it seems to have been wanted at Thessalonica.
A critic of sermons is apt to forget the practical purpose of the discernment here spoken of.
They come to church, not to be taught, not to exercise any faculty of discernment or testing at all, but to be impressed.
We often have guidance without discernment of that guidance.
Christian prophecy implies insight or discernment of spiritual things by divine illumination, and expression of them, by inspiration, in terms of Christian truth or in the tones and cadences of Christian testimony.
And what is there in epilepsy to give discernment of his character and the purpose of his mission?
In both cases it would prove injurious that the error should be remembered, after study and reflection, with advancing years, shall have brought him to a clearer discernment of the truth, and better judgment in the application of it.
I hope for the credit of your discernment you don't.
Mrs. Norris accepted the compliment, and admired the nice discernment of character which could so well distinguish merit.
The train of thought is logical, but in ethical discernment the lack appears.
It might be naturally expected that the feebleminded, who frequently have poor discernment of the relation of cause and effect, including the phenomena of conduct, would often lie without normal cause.
Critic law is that ofdiscernment and award: it defines what is and is not to be suffered.
Dolores was deeply pained, she put so much confidence in her father; she thought his discernment incomparable, he always stood so high in her estimation, far beyond reproach.
He was sure it must be Dolores who influenced Miss Adeline, and what he had ever done to be under the bane of Dolores' displeasure, was more than Sir Barry's keenest discernmentcould fathom.
Master, "are we to say that the spirits of T'ai-shan have not as much discernment as Lin Fang?
Mademoiselle would not pay so ill a compliment to her own discernment as to say she had not perceived the alteration; which, on the contrary, she owned was extremely palpable; nor was it difficult to divine the cause of such estranged looks.
He tasked his penetration to discover the cause of this alteration; he burned with impatience to know it; his discernment failed him, and he was afraid, though he knew not why, to demand an explanation.
She had too much discernment to overlook his uncommon talents and agreeable address, and too much susceptibility to observe them with indifference.
Indeed, I might prove what I allege by mathematical demonstration; and I believe nobody will pretend to deny, that two heads are better than one, in all cases that require discernment and deliberation.
For, as the reader may have already observed, Fathom possessed all the arts of insinuation, and had discernment enough to perceive an air of dignity in the Persian, which the humility of his circumstances could not conceal.
The dear little lady," as we often call her, has always been noted for her keen discernment and wonderful sagacity and loses none of it as she advances in years.
His marked individuality of character and deportment, together with his shrewd discernment and active habits, could not fail to leave a distinct impression on the minds of all.
Any corps that was about to set an example of the kind would weigh well the consequences, and no officer of common discernment and sensibility would hazard them.
His leanings toward heterodoxy were veiled from the eyes of every one, except perhaps the clear-sighted discernment of Calvin, who valued his abilities, without having an entire confidence in the solidity of his doctrines.
But such a discernment in parents is matter of rare occurrence, and can it be said that many known characters have been handled according to the scientific rules here laid down?
I think he prided himself on the successes of his friends, and cited them as a proof of discernment in the choice of some of his companions.
Tis better, on the whole, to have felt and seen That which humanity may bear, or bear not: Twill teach discernment to the sensitive, And not to pour their ocean in a sieve.
