Twa'n't thanks to none of my fore-sightedness that the clover wa'n't served the old way.
It had lost none of its strength; while his fastidious notions of excellence and a far-reaching clear-sightedness which belonged to his truth of nature, greatly narrowed the sphere of its possible action.
And with the vital quietude and longer-sightedness of eyes, come spiritual quickening and longer-sightedness of mental view.
Testimony from astronomical sources has been quoted as to their keen-sightedness in this work which, as Sir Robert Ball has said, "indicates one of the utmost refinements of astronomical observation.
There is hardly anything that shows the short-sightedness or capriciousness of the imagination more than travelling does.
Habit blinds them to some things; short-sightedness to others.
Tell me sir, if you remember the length of life that you have passed, and if you recollect by your long sightedness how you came to be settled in this lodging.
Being then gifted with clear sightedness and clairvoyance, he was astonished at the view of naked truths, that appeared to him as sights in a dream, which he recounted to him as follows.
The utmost attainments effected by the wisdom of our ancestors were but ignorance and short-sightedness compared with the knowledge of the present day.
In the kingdom of Samaria, which since its separation from the eastern and northern districts, could no longer be called the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, wrongdoing and short-sightedness continued to prevail.
Short-sightedness itself has disappeared under the prolonged influence of a light that is pleasing to the eye, and of the habit of reading books which are written in very large characters.
Short-sightedness alone continued its lamentable progress, being stimulated by the extraordinary spread of journalism.
When the defect of far sightedness or near sightedness exists, we have but one recourse--spectacles.
It was not until 1575 that Maurolicus, of Messina, pointed out the cause of near sightedness and far sightedness and explained how concave glasses corrected the former and convex glasses the latter defect.
Myopia or short-sightedness among the Germans is growing at a tremendous rate.
They are not therefore the result of deliberation, in any sense that implies short-sightedness or hesitancy.
We should illustrate the doctrine so far as possible by instances of completeness and far-sightedness in human plans of great enterprises.
Such a case is afforded by the short-sightedness so common in civilized nations.
It has been argued that acquired short-sightedness can be in a slight degree transmitted, and that each successive generation has developed a further degree of the disease by habitually holding books etc.
Fortunately he failed; but the mere attempt casts the gravest discredit alike on his far-sightedness and on his reputation as a statesman.
They were forced to contend not only with the active hostility of the Tories, but with the passive neutrality of the indifferent, and the selfishness, jealousy, and short-sightedness of the patriotic.
The tendency to short-sightedness exists in many cases at birth, and is largely hereditary.
In many cases near-sightedness becomes a serious matter and demands skillful advice and careful treatment.
There he at once displayed that energy and clear-sightedness which were to become so conspicuous in his subsequent career.
The short-sightedness and folly of mankind is such that Communism, in spite of a record of more than 2,000 years of universal failure, is still a power to be reckoned with.
They cannot find out that in decision, in clear-sightedness and soundness of judgment, the people are far ahead of Mr. Lincoln and of his spiritual or constitutional conscience-keepers.
He had lost the faculty of working and going firmly toward a determined object, but he retained clear-sightedness and rectitude more fully than ever.
What was blundering in the legitimists was clear-sightedness in the democrats; 1830 had made the people bankrupt, and indignant democracy reproached it with the deed.
And she began to perceive a dreadful clear-sightedness dawning above the confusion of her thoughts.
May sat spell-bound; looking at him fixedly, and with that dawn of clear-sightedness rapidly illumining many things, to her unspeakable consternation.
To say that these thoughts had been with him since his first hazardous entry into Medina is to grant him a long-sightedness which his opportunist rule does not warrant.
