The selection of Wolfe and Amherst as generals showed his contempt for precedent and his inborn knowledge of men.
Nothing better proves the inborn political capacity of the English mind than that it should at once have found a simple and effective solution of such a difficulty as this.
We may therefore define conscientiousness as the inborndesire to do that which is right and just.
They may have had inborn genius; their natures may have been quick and active; but they could not avoid the necessity of persevering labor.
As to the nature and frequency of inborn variations, Biology has recently begun to accumulate precise observations, and has renounced the bad habit of simply postulating variability without statistically or otherwise defining it.
We will now consider what genius is, and, more particularly, whether it is an inborn or an acquired power.
All those charms imply an inborn imperiousness of will.
He was too fine, too highly trained for the genuine article: he lacked that easy inborn grace of the man in whom good manners are hereditary.
Spoken words inform the emotional side of our nature, through the intellectual; whereas music, operating outwardly in the same manner, speaks over the head of intellect to an inborn sense which ceases not to receive as a little child.
To remove one small section of inborn ignorance is a life-work for any man.
It is not planted in us by nature, yet is closest to inborn knowledge, of all the sciences which we know through discovery and learning (inventionem et doctrinam).
Clearly, grace is no part of our inborn nature, and does not belong to our natural faculties.
The prophecy has scarcely been fulfilled; but it is true that from my earliest days I have had an inborn love of oratory.
Then again, I had a natural and inborn love of public speaking, and I have known no enjoyment in life equal to that of addressing a great audience which you feel to be actively sympathetic.
I said in an earlier chapter that I had an inborn fondness for Catholic ceremonial, and this, I suppose, was part of my general love of material beauty.
Yet she was true as steel to him; true with the strong and loyal fealty that is inborn with such natures as hers.
He thought her a little leopard, in her vivacious play and her inborn bloodthirstiness.
The inborn truth within her, the native generosity and candor that soon or late always overruled every other element in the Little One, conquered her now.
She has the knack, the inborn genius, for getting twenty sou worth out of every franc she spends.
It is so inborn in woman that I find something incongruous in such a remark as, 'She was a good and loving mother!
And that love is so inborn in woman that you see it already written on the face of the little girl who plays with her doll.
He must meet that truth with his own true stuff--with his own inborn strength.
It takes a man all his inborn strength to fight hunger properly.
And it was Whistler who proclaimed that art cannot be taught but must be an inborn gift, that everything can be acquired by long practice save that one supernatural quality of genius which alone can transform a painter into a great artist.
The love of nature was with Arnold an inborn passion, the strength of which is proved not only by his poetry, but in one sense even more convincingly by his familiar letters.
That his success was partly due to aninborn gift for rendering verse is proved by FitzGerald's high, though not equal felicity, as a translator of poets so different as Aeschylus, Calderon, and Omar Khayyam.
Human pleasures, whatever their origin, are limited in degree by man's capacity for enjoyment; and this is an inborn gift, varying in different individuals but unchanging in each.
Why there should be so muchinborn ease and freedom expressed in the manner of women who are guarded with Oriental precautions, I don't know.
But, notwithstanding that at this time Jews and Christians dwelt together unmolested by the Mohammedan rule, the inborn hostility between these two orders underwent no abatement.
He had an inborn foreknowledge of impending avalanches and a feeling for unsafe ice.
Most were past masters of ski travel, but Franz had an extra touch, an inborn feeling for snow, that set him apart.
Nature meant him for a frontiersman, but circumstances made him an innkeeper and his inborn tastes made him a--well, never mind; there was a great deal of poaching done in that country.
But the Adamic will does not only not operate or cooperate, but, according to the inborn malice of the heart, even operates contrarily (verum etiam pro nativa malitia cordis sui contra operatur).
Man consents with the faith given by God, but he resists with the inborn wickedness of his Old Adam.
But he erred fatally by identifying this inborn evil tendency with the substance of fallen man and the essence of his will as such.
