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"I was waiting for you there," said I. "The evidence of Mungo Campbell; your flight after the completion of the murder; your long course of secresy my good young man!" said Mr. Simon, "here is enough evidence to hang a bullock, let be a David Balfour!

During these same years Michelangelo carried on a correspondence with Ammanati and Vasari about the completion of the Laurentian Library. His letters illustrate what I have more than once observed regarding his unpractical method of commencing great works, without more than the roughest sketches, intelligible to himself alone, and useless to an ordinary craftsman.

The latter sent out for music paper, and, finding himself in the vein for composition, went on writing till the completion of the work.

And so with the remembrance of his example as an inspiration the work was finished by me, the survivor, but to Hubbard and to his memory belong the credit and the honour, for it was only through my training with him and this inspiration received from him that I was able to carry to successful completion what he had so well planned.

Greyson uncovered her bas-relief, now rapidly nearing completion, and stood before it, examining critically its merits and defects. A familiar step in the passage, a tap at the door, and Grant Herman joined her. "You look as fresh as ever this morning," he said. "I feared that the entertaining of such a company of Bohemians would have tired you out." "No, indeed," she returned.

A third species of evidence, which is of the highest importance in this case, is the belief which the writers of these times had, that the prophecy of Isaiah, which stated, that men should turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, was then in the act of completion.

The Credit Mobilier was formed to do the actual building, and with many trials, discouragements, and unforeseen expense, the work was continued to its completion. The initial eastern point had been fixed by the Charter two hundred and forty-seven miles west of Omaha at the hundredth Meridian, branches being contemplated to connect it with the Missouri River.

Their plans matured, and every day approached nearer to completion, while with firm hand Count Adam Schwarzenberg held the reins which guided the great machinery of insurrection. He had sent Colonel Goldacker with his regiment to Mecklenburg to draw out the Swedes, and to provoke them to advance upon the Mark.

This law is not written in a code for the guidance of the people. It is graven in the hearts of the inhabitants, and is reflected in the countenance of every individual. This law is the incentive before the entire population and urges each individual onward to the completion of the task before him. There are no rulers to bow before: neither is anyone better than his brother.

Whatever be its fortunes, whatever its difficulties, whatever its delays, I cannot doubt at all that the encouragement which it has already received, and the measure of success which it has been allotted, are but a presage and an anticipation of a gradual advance towards its completion, in such times and such manner as Providence shall appoint.