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That is why I resolved to go, without further delay, and ask their secret of these mysterious ruins, and to multiply, if need be, the artifices of my pencil, to make up for the compulsory conciseness of my pen. I left on Wednesday morning for the town of Vitry, which is only two or three leagues distant from the abbey.
On the other hand modern mathematicians, through a profound ignorance of this divine truth, and looking to nothing but the wants and conveniences of the animal life of man, as if the gratification of his senses was his only end, have corrupted pure geometry, by mingling with it algebraical calculations, and through eagerness to reduce it as much as possible to practical purposes, have more anxiously sought after conciseness than accuracy, facility than elegance of geometrical demonstration.
Joseph Wendon, on Wednesday, September the ninth, at Bristol, Connecticut. At Home after January first, at 758 Wood Street. This card of announcement is a model of conciseness, and answers the oft-repeated question, "Where shall we go to find the married couple next winter?"
Pleasure, indeed, has a secret charm; and the things which please seem less tedious. A pleasant and smooth road, tho it be longer, fatigues less than a rugged and disagreeable short cut. I am not so fond of conciseness as not to make room for brightening a narration with proper embellishments.
Lady Gertrude had expressed her opinion with a conciseness that was entirely characteristic. "You made an unwise choice, my son. Nan has no sense of her future position as your wife." Isobel had been less blunt in her methods, but a corrosive acid had underlain her gentle speech. "I can't understand it, Roger. She she was fond of you, wasn't she?
Besides my Observations which I made my self, and which could only furnish me with what was present, and which I shall take time to inform my Reader with as much Care and Conciseness as possible; I was beholding to this Old Lunarian, for every thing that was Historical or Particular.
As the conciseness and charm of this epistle cannot be equalled by any narration of ours, and as, moreover, it proves the legitimacy of the tie which united these two individuals, we produce it here: "My dear Jenny, You will lose your wager. Like Napoleon, Gaudissart the illustrious has his star, but not his Waterloo. I triumph everywhere. Life insurance has done well.
It would be necessary to write a large volume of rational things; and, in a letter, I ought to relate them with conciseness and truth; draw sketches with rapidity, but clearness; in short, express positive results, without deviating from abstractions and generalities, since you require from me, on this subject, no more than a letter, and not a book. I come to the point.
I pointed out that if these leaders surrendered, President Cleveland could be made the direct beneficiary, politically, of their composition with the law. Colonel Lamont was a small, alert man with a conciseness of speech and manner that is associated in my memory with the bristle of his red mustache cut short and hard across a decisive mouth.
There were, according to the Stoics, five parts of speech name, appellative, verb, conjunction, article. 'Name' meant a proper name, and 'appellative' a common term. There were reckoned to be five virtues of speech Hellenism, clearness, conciseness, propriety, distinction. By 'Hellenism' was meant speaking good Greek.
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