I am a more hearty admirer of the Puritans than seems now to be the fashion, and believe, that, if they Hebraized a little too much in their speech, they showed remarkable practical sagacity as statesmen and founders.
His keen sagacity enabled him to recognize the different spirits of the business circles in the old world and in the new, to adapt himself to changed conditions and to work along lines of new world progress.
Those who met Mr. Shepherd found him genial, courteous and obliging, and at the same time he possessed the keen sagacity and clear reasoning so indispensable to the successful conduct of any enterprise.
It is true that he entered upon a business already established, but in enlarging and developing this many a man of less resolute spirit and of more limited business sagacity would have failed.
His clear insight, his keen sagacity and his public spirit have made his influence a potent factor in bringing about not only Canada’s commercial progress, but also her moral uplift.
His coolness and sagacity undoubtedly prevented the collapse of the negotiations.
His judgment was sound, his sagacity keen and in the control of important interests he established his position as one of the leading and capable business men of the city.
Now, too, we have a chance to test the sagacity of our friends, and to get at their principles of judgment.
Alternately as landlord and magistrate, the proprietor of an estate had to listen to perpetual complaints, petty wranglings and equivocations, in which no human sagacity could discover the truth or award justice.
Bold showed more good feeling and more sagacity than his master.
But instinct rather than sagacity led them to turn their eyes to the future, and successfully upon other points to retrieve their mistake.
In this contingency, he manifested a personal generosity and political sagacity far above the comprehension of the ordinary smart politician.
And now, it remains for us to see if your sagacity is at fault.
Cellini has these little writing implements; he uses them whenever the distances are too great for us to amuse ourselves with the sagacity of Leo--in fact the journeys of that faithful animal have principally been to keep him in training.
I inquired, smiling, for the sagacity of the dog amused as well as interested me.
It is most interesting to be among wild beasts, which, though tame, or partly so, are not in captivity, and to see their great sagacity and their singular likeness and unlikeness to us.
It may also be remarked that the revenue of Perak, thanks to the financial sagacity and wise discrimination of the Resident, is collected with little difficulty, and without inflicting any real vexations or hardships on the taxpayers.
He knew every bird by its flight and its pipe, habits, tricks, hints of sagacity homely with the original human; and his remarks on the sensitive life of trees and herbs were a spell to his thirsty hearers.
It was necessary to him to follow his abashed sagacity up to the mark of his happy animation.
He is one of the historians who will ever be read; with a political sagacity and philosophic outlook on history that give him a place of his own.
Such were the reasons, which would have led me had I followed the promptings of my own sagacity to oppose the return of the Jesuits.
In the result, I had not passed through two streets before my mind was made up to lay the case before the King, and be guided by the sagacity which was never wanting to my gracious master.
And in the power of subduing the wild spirits of his men, and bending all their energies to the one object before him, he displayed much of the sagacity and tact of that great navigator.
It is often several inches in thickness, and so nearly resembles terra firma, that not only the sagacity of man, but even animal instinct has been deceived by it.
My friends,' he said, 'there cannot be two opinions about the graciousness and sagacity of the remarks that have just fallen from Her Majesty; nevertheless it is with His Majesty King Alcinous that the decision must ultimately rest.
Not so with Mr. Wallace, who was both more outspoken in the first instance, and who has persevered along the path of Wallaceism just as Mr. Darwin with greater sagacity was ever on the retreat from Darwinism.
I suppose Minerva was so busy making Nausicaa brave that she had no time to put a little sense into Ulysses' head, and remind him that he was nothing if not full of sagacity and resource.
The discoveries already made are encouraging; but vast room is left for the further industry and sagacity of geologists.
It was just 59 since the British power had supervened, and 39 since the American right had been acknowledged by the sagacity of Dr.
A Chymical Operation could not be followed with greater Art or Diligence, than is seen in the hatching of a Chick; tho' there are many other Birds that shew an infinitely greater Sagacity in all the forementioned Particulars.
Who can tell what to call that seeming Sagacity in Animals, which directs them to such Food as is proper for them, and makes them naturally avoid whatever is noxious or unwholesome?
In the same manner, we find that particular Animals have a more or less exquisite Sharpness and Sagacity in those particular Senses which most turn to their Advantage, and in which their Safety and Welfare is the most concerned.
Here I can point out to you exertions of the most successful industry; instances of native sagacity unassisted by science; the happy fruits of a well directed perseverance.
I mean to say to them: "You shall hunt and fish merely to show your new companions that you are not inferior to them in point of sagacity and dexterity.
Chapter V The Year of Wandering Goethe prefaces Wilhelm Meister's travels with some lines full of that sagacity which was so closely related to his insight: What shap'st thou here at the world?
He had also the powerful sagacity which insures confidence; and no man doubted that, when Nelson commanded, he was leading to victory.
