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Obviously, this must be so, for the whole country is trapped over every year, all the furs are marketed, most of them through the Hudson's Bay Company, and whatever falls into other hands is about the same percentage each year, therefore the H. B. Co. returns are an accurate gauge of the relative rise and fall of the population.
In exceptional cases, some were employed not only as teachers and preachers to their people, but as instructors of the white race. A more accurate estimate of how far the enlightenment of the Negroes had progressed before the close of the eighteenth century, is better obtained from the reports of teachers and missionaries who were working among them.
Q. Did you reduce the results of your investigations to the shape of a report? A. I was engaged at that work when General Johnston surrendered his army. Q. Have you examined this extract from your report and compared it with the original? A. Yes, Sir; I have. Q. Is it accurate? A. So far as my examination extended, it is accurate.
"Yet, clearly, it should augment your satisfaction," Sir Abel Barking observed, with a touch of severity. "And, by the by, you can draw your pension. You were entitled, strictly speaking, to do so some years ago four, I believe, to be accurate. This was pointed out to you at the time by my nephew Reginald. He was not at all unwilling that you should retire then; but you preferred to remain.
But, when we analyse his speculations, we find that his notion of power is, in the words of Bacon, "phantiastica et male terminata." There are two senses in which we may use the word "power," and those words which denote the various distributions of power, as, for example, "monarchy": the one sense popular and superficial, the other more scientific and accurate.
Lady Laura, who in marrying him had firmly resolved that she would do her duty to him in all ways, even though the ways might sometimes be painful, and had been perhaps more punctilious in this respect than she might have been had she loved him heartily, was not perhaps quite so fond of accurate regularity as her husband; and thus, by this time, certain habits of his had become rather bonds than habits to her.
Everything you say is so clear and accurate." "What shall I talk about?" "You can draw a picture of the general condition of working men," answered Stchemilov, "and how capital is forging a hammer against itself and compelling labour to organize." Elisaveta grew red and silently inclined her head. "Then it's all settled, comrade?" asked Stchemilov. Elisaveta burst into a laugh.
Long John's eyes burned in his head as he took the chart; but, by the fresh look of the paper, I knew he was doomed to disappointment. This was not the map we found in Billy Bones's chest, but an accurate copy, complete in all things names and heights and soundings with the single exception of the red crosses and the written notes.
He who exerts himself in the simple and accurate character, and speaks neatly and smartly without aiming any higher! he, by this alone, if carried to perfection, becomes a great, if not the greatest of Orators; nor does he walk upon slippery ground, so that if he has but learned to tread firm, he is in no danger of falling.
Hence the representation would be most accurate if the whole assembly were elected in one large electorate.
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