All this passed under the immediate observation of Cromwell, whose retentive memory never forgot any signal action, and whose discriminating policy generally placed the man who performed it in a situation suited to his character.
There is rather too much of patriotic fervor for a discriminating analysis in a monograph, The Battle of Oriskany, its place in History, an address at the Centennial Celebration, Aug.
He was transparently ingenuous of thought and purpose and did not attempt to conceal his gratification at the success of Aylwin or the pleasure which a discriminating and sympathetic appreciation afforded him.
By minor poet, meaning apparently a new and unknown poet,” which prefaced a generous if discriminating and critical appreciation of my friend’s poems.
With what discriminating truth the father in the parable of the lost boy speaks.
Thus Moses showed the first characteristic of genius, namely, capacity for accurate anddiscriminating observation.
Without repeating the arguments contained in my former message in favor of discriminating protective duties, I deem it my duty to call your attention to one or two other considerations affecting this subject.
All this calls for little but quick and discriminating observation,--the ability to feel and read the public pulse in matters literary.
It doesn't seem to pay the first year; but if the salesman's judgment of books is discriminating and he hangs on, the booksellers soon realize that they can trust him.
The importance of such discriminating separation is one of the four rules prescribed by Descartes in his Discours de la Methode.
For it accustoms us to study the difficulties on both sides of every question, and thus assists us in detecting and discriminating truth and falsehood.
Such a proposition is useless; for it furnishes no means of discriminating the subject from anything; whereas discrimination is one express purpose of the Proprium as well as of the Definition.
The three heads just enumerated illustrate the discriminating care of Aristotle.
His taste, though analogous in many points to smell, is far more accurate and discriminating, because taste is a variety of touch; and in respect to touch, man is the most discriminating of all animals.
But, if you undertake yourself to enunciate a proprium, you will avoid laying yourself open to the objections, by discriminating under which of these heads you intend to affirm it.
In discriminating and arranging the Ten Categories, Trendelenburg supposes that Aristotle was guided, consciously or unconsciously, by grammatical considerations, or by a distinction among the parts of speech.
In truth, the new sensation is apt to be entirely over-ridden by the old; and, in place of discriminating by virtue of our susceptibility to what is characteristic in it, our discrimination follows another course.
On a brilliant day in the first week of February The Wanderer glided into the harbor of Algiers, and, like a sentient being with a discriminating brain, picked her way to her moorings.
But she looked--for Jonson Ramer--coolly self-possessed and discriminating as she sat very still in the shadow.
No doubt she argued that there is in the musical world only a limited number of discriminating enthusiasts, capable of forming and fostering public opinion, of "giving a lead" to the critics, and through them to the world.
Perhaps, had there been some thrashing as discriminating as Jerry Flaherty's, it had been better for Tom Mulligan.
No songs like those which come from electing love; no sonnets like those that are dictated by meditations on discriminating mercy.
How many thus escaped cannot be reckoned, but it is known that the number of free negroes in the North increased so rapidly that laws discriminating against them were passed in many States.
He worships them, it is true, but through her, as discriminating Romanists try to make us believe that they adore the Virgin Mary by the help of her images.
If you would have my candid opinion, I should prefer intelligent and discriminating esteem to blind adoration," was the courteous rejoinder, at which the lady bridled.
Chapters IV and V are based on the fact that we must become thoroughly acquainted with individual words--that no one who scorns to study the separate elements of speech can command powerful and discriminating utterance.
After discriminating these terms for yourself, see the treatment of break, fracture under above under Parallels.
Wise implies sound and discriminating judgment, resulting from either learning or experience.
An idealism which had consisted in understanding and discriminating values now became a superstition incapable of discerning existences.
All these sentimental feelings are at any rate mere preludes, but preludes in fortunate cases to more discriminating and solid interests, which such a tremulous overture may possibly pitch on a higher key.
A discriminating tonnage duty was also laid upon all foreign vessels.
In 1786 this little state flatly refused to pay her quota until New York should stop discriminating against her trade.
It would be easy to retort that all that Paley's case demanded was the same power of discrimination in moral judgments, as the power of discriminating light and dark belonging to our sense of sight.
We are, or ought to be, capable of discriminating between that which is really inscrutable and that which is not so.
A good literary style is formed principally by daily study of great English writers, by careful examination of words in their context, and by a discriminating use of language at all times.
The political doctrines of the modern Tory resemble those of the primitive Whig; yet few will deny that the Whig and Tory characters have each a discriminating type.
He was fond of having the boys read to him from such authors as Channing and Irving, and criticised their way of reading with discriminating judgment and taste.
