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"With sentiments of esteem, regard and respect, I have the honor to be " This is not a matter of "great pith or moment," but it shows how pleasantly he could acknowledge a civility. The turn of the sentences smacks of the formality of the time.
It is true that its workmanship shows it to belong to a much later date than the age of Naram-Sin himself, but the legend equally shows that the name of the conqueror of Magan was still remembered in the West.
Charlotte Bronte was surely a marvellous woman. If it could be right to judge the work of a novelist from one small portion of one novel, and to say of an author that he is to be accounted as strong as he shows himself to be in his strongest morsel of work, I should be inclined to put Miss Bronte very high indeed.
The very man who shares our blanket and tent-cover, who draws rations from the same kettle, who drinks from the same canteen, and with whom we are compelled to come in contact daily, may be the veriest poltroon, whose diploma shows graduation at the Five Points, and whose presence alone is morally miasmatic.
"Oh! he got out of the scuttle on the roof," said the Captain, promptly. "And did you move your anchor?" said Moses. "Why, child, yes, to be sure I did; he was such a gentleman I wanted to oblige him, it shows you how important it is always to be polite," said the Captain, by way of giving a moral turn to his narrative. Mr.
If experience shows that it is not what we surmised, does not act in the way or display the qualities our reflection led us to expect, then, as the conclusions we reached are wrong, our reflections were on a wrong line, and must have started from a false conception or an imperfect idea of the thing.
The truth is, that the suddenness of the attack, and their unprepared condition to repel it, threw the people into temporary confusion, and forced them to retreat, as, all history shows us, the best and bravest will do at times.
Where'er his fingers move his eye can trace The once rude ivory softening into grace Pliant as wax that, on Hymettus' hill, Melts in the sunbeam, it obeys his skill; At every touch some different aspect shows, And still, the oftener touch'd the lovelier grows.
"You see, the heading on the first sheet shows that the document purports to give the Gridley signals." "And it does give them, to a dot," groaned Prescott, paling again. "So I showed it to our coach, Mr. Matthews, and to some of the members of the team," continued Mr. Jarvis.
One old record, discovered by antiquarian industry, shows him in a village church near Florence, planning with the Cerchi and the White party an attack on the Black Guelfs. In another, he appears in the Val di Magra, making peace between its small potentates; in another, as the inhabitant of a certain street in Padua.
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