Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more
ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
Such
ill-judged marriages are, as might be expected, barren, if they do not result in positive Irregularity or in diminution of sides; but none of these evils have hitherto proved sufficiently deterrent.
But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so
ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather
ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr.
"And I a fool for having so
ill-judged him," said Aramis.
Once only, when she had been grieving over the last
ill-judged, ill-fated walk to the Cobb, bitterly lamenting that it ever had been thought of, he burst forth, as if wholly overcome--
In the
ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.
'And this,' resumed Snawley, 'has made me anxious to put them to some school a good distance off, where there are no holidays--none of those
ill-judged coming home twice a year that unsettle children's minds so--and where they may rough it a little--you comprehend?'
Your
ill-judged remarks have made me exceedingly angry, and you are quite mistaken, for I excel in a great many athletic exercises; indeed, so long as I had youth and strength, I was among the first athletes of the age.
Indeed, the attempt to write several thousand lines of pure descriptive poetry was in itself
ill-judged, since as the German critic Lessing later pointed out, poetry is the natural medium not for description but for narration; and Thomson himself virtually admitted this in part by resorting to long dedications and narrative episodes to fill out his scheme.
Her instinct told her that an appeal to his affection, at this moment, would be extremely
ill-judged. She controlled herself, sat down, poured out a fresh cup of tea, and sipped it quietly.
had launched into imprudent and
ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from - HEEP - and by - HEEP - fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr.