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Northern New England became now of relatively little importance in view of the obvious designs of France to regain Nova Scotia. We have now come to an important period in the history of America as well as of Europe. In 1739 Walpole was forced to go to war with Spain, at the dictation of the commercial classes, who wished to obtain control of the Spanish Main.
But placed almost at once through foreign dictation under a species of police-control, which while nominally derived from Western conceptions, was primarily designed to rehabilitate the semblance of the authority which had been so sensationally extinguished, the Republic remained only a dream; and the world, taught to believe that there could be no real stability until the scheme of government approximated to the conception long formed of Peking absolutism, waited patiently for the rude awakening which came with the Yuan Shih-kai coup d'etat of 4th November, 1913.
It is a well-known fact that all ecclesiastical tradition, almost with one voice, has handed down that St. Mark wrote his Gospel under the superintendence, if not at the dictation, of St. Peter; and when Justin has occasion to mention that our Lord gave the name of Boanerges to the sons of Zebedee, an incident mentioned only by St. Mark, he seems at least to indicate the Gospel of St.
I pursued my way along the passage very slowly, I own and I heard the first sentences of the letter which I had written under Lucilla's dictation, read aloud to her in the old nurse's voice.
Kars took it upon himself to reply. "Not till the p'lice get around." But Pap would not accept the dictation. "That so, Doc?" he inquired, ignoring Kars. "That's so," said Bill, with an almost stern brevity. Then, in a moment, the Jew's face flushed under his dark skin. "The darn suckers!" he cried. "This'll cost me thousands of dollars. It'll drive trade into the Gridiron fer weeks.
He thought he could reckon up, so I got a pencil and made a list from his dictation, and from his memory, which was rather vague. "Why, my dear fellow!" I exclaimed, "if you'd had your allowance ever so regularly, it wouldn't have covered this sort of thing." "I know, I know," said poor Jem, clutching remorsefully at his curls. "I've been a regular fool! Jack! whatever you do never tick.
Maxwell paused again in his work, and, leaning on his shovel, looked Bascom in the eye: "By which you mean that you have never had anyone who was independent enough to grip the situation in both hands and do exactly what he thought best, independent of your dictation." "I will not converse with you any more. You are insulting."
No great obstacle to our joining the service was put in our way by the examination which we underwent; for, after being asked to spell a few easy words, tested as to our arithmetic with a sum in simple addition, and the multiplication table as far as six times six, besides being given a short sentence from some reader to write from dictation, the head schoolmaster filled up a form, which he attached to our papers, notifying that we were sufficiently educated to become Saint Vincent boys.
The writing-case was searched, and some letter paper was found in it of the size required. Mrs. Lecount resumed her dictation; and Noel Vanstone resumed his pen. "Baliol Cottage, Dumfries, "November 3d, 1847. "Private. It is the purpose of my letter to tell you privately what the object is for which I have left you the fortune which is now placed in your hands.
And what is it? he said. I replied that it was a kind of leaf, which required to be accompanied by a charm, and if a person would repeat the charm at the same time that he used the cure, he would be made whole; but that without the charm the leaf would be of no avail. Then I will write out the charm from your dictation, he said. With my consent? I said, or without my consent?
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