Something was said of the merit of meaning well, and the journalist was declared to be a man, whose failings might well be pardoned for his virtues.
They would have both clone honour to a better society, for they had that charity which might well make their failings forgotten, and with which the whole Christian world might wish for communion.
I think myself pretty well acquainted with the failings and weak parts in Stanley; and you may assure yourself I shall avail myself of them.
Whatever may be the failings of Sir William, as his wife, it is my duty not to resent them, and my interest not to see them.
I could add many more things, which would justify me in the eye of the world, were I less cautious than I am; but his failings would not extenuate any on my side.
But his vanity led him to talk perpetually of himself; and, as often happens to vain men, he would rather talk of his own failings than of any foreign subject.
The failings of Erasmus have been already adverted to; it is from his own letters that we derive our chief knowledge of them.
The faults and failings which belong to humanity fallen, are there covered by the mantle of charity, and the feeling of every member of the family is, "With all thy faults I love thee still.
But I never heard that it had been anybody's business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to HIM.
He realised his failings thoroughly, self-occupied though he was; they harassed him more and more.
She does not lay aside the failings which she acquired when in another and worse position.
She presented in her own organization an example of authority, of system, and of obedience, which, despite many failings and abuses, was of great value to the world.
My dear Oliver, whatever myfailings may be, I have some penetration.
The failings of a great man are more instructive than those of an obscure man.
I gave a report in writing of my doings on the road, and my estimation of the resources and failings as a military road, that it professed.
There beys or governors were good enough in themselves, and to those of the same creed, but they lived and haughtily prospered on the vices and failings of those whom they governed.
Some of his failings he knew to be such, and struggled with them though he did not overcome.
These two were taking up the centre of the narrow street through which the young men passed, and seemed disposed to bar their way; but fear was not one of the failings of the Emir's son, and their attitude aroused his wrath.
Alice; and the next moment she was warmly embracing those dear friends to whose failings she was nowise blind, however ardent her late defence of them.
That paper chronicled all the weaknesses, peculiarities, and failingsof the faculty.
The white planter was much annoyed by the disposition on the part of the blacks to transfer their failings to him in their tales to the "office," as the negro called the Bureau and its agents.
If a man spreads myfailings abroad, he is my master, even though he were my servant.
It is failings that show human nature, and merits that distinguish the individual; faults and misfortunes we all have in common; virtues belong to each one separately.
Enter boldly into a world to whose failings you are superior; Reflect that you are now exempted from Humanity's defects, and defy all the arts of the Spirits of Darkness.
What charms me, when ideal and considered as a superior Being, would disgust me, become Woman and tainted with all the failings of Mortality.
She continued to feel that his friendship and society were requisite to her happiness: She looked upon his failings with a partial eye, and could not persuade herself that He really had intended her ruin.
A lack of an instinct for selection is one of the commonest failings in amateurs, and is responsible for the rejection of an endless stream of MSS.
It loves the failings as well as the gifts, treasuring all the little humanesses of the loved one, searching them out zealously.
It yearns to protect, to mother, to lovefailings and make them virtues.
Two other characters were there which we cannot overlook, both of whom had passed through the world with a strong but holy scorn for the errors and failings of their fellow-creatures.
Age too has been pleaded for the errors and failings in a work which the octogenarian had the discernment to perceive, and yet had not the fortitude to suppress.
It was his failings as much as his talents that enabled him to work the miracle.
And so it comes about that our virtues and our failings have more to do with the length of our legs than we think.
Whatever may be my failings, for failings are a part of human nature, may they ever be those of a generous heart, and an independent mind!
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