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Gunn's Essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me. The solemn hunting was delayed, from various causes, for about three weeks.
My lords, the address proposed, like the speech itself, is of a very complicated and intricate kind, and comprises in a few words many transactions of great importance, crowded together with an artful brevity, that the mind may be hindered by the multitude of images, from a distinct and deliberate consideration of particulars.
The Empress said the Americans were favorites in Russia, and she hoped the Russians were similarly regarded in America. These were all the speeches that were made, and I recommend them to parties who present policemen with gold watches, as models of brevity and point. She is fourteen years old, light-haired, blue-eyed, unassuming and pretty. Every body talks English.
And 'if his days were evil, as he said, was it not a good thing that they were few? But, instead of that, he finds reasons for complaint in the brevity of the life which, if it were as evil as he made it out to be, must often have seemed wearisomely long, and dragged very slowly. Now, both things are true life is short, life is long. Time is elastic you can stretch it or you can contract it.
"Holy father, you are aware of the history of the brother, and of the worldly affliction that drove him to this blessed profession?" "I am," replied the Superior, with the same brevity. "He narrated it to me fully," said Father Johannes. "The maiden he was betrothed to was married to another in his absence on a long journey, being craftily made to suppose him dead."
There is nothing finer in his latest work than his early essays 'Nature and God, 'Science, Nescience and Faith, and 'Religion as affected by Modern Materialism. He died in 1900 in his ninety-fifth year. It is difficult to speak of the living in these pages. Personal relations enforce reserve and brevity.
He was simply Dana Da, and declined to give further information. For the sake of brevity, and as roughly indicating his origin, he was called "The Native." He might have been the original Old Man of the Mountains, who is said to be the only authorized head of the Teacup Creed.
This is the truth so powerfully expressed by the sacred writer, in terms which by their brevity convey, in the most adequate manner, their overwhelming import, "The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
He had 'an escort of the Aga of Hassia's best Arab horsemen. Johnson was perhaps astonished at the size of their caravan, 'which was increased to about 200 persons. The writer treats the whole matter with great brevity. Wood's Ruins of Palmyra, p. 33. On their return the travellers discovered a party of Arab horsemen, who gave them an alarm.
Scipio's face grew grave at these words, and he asked with commanding brevity and sharpness: "Has your sister black hair and is she taller than you are, and did she wear a golden fillet in the procession? Did she give you these flowers? Yes do you say?
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