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'Colambre, my dear! I forgot to say that, if anything detains you longer than Wednesday se'nnight, I beg you will not fail to write, or I shall be miserable. 'I will write; at all events, my dearest mother, you shall hear from me. 'Then I shall be quite happy. Go on! The carriage drove on.
It is pronounced mischievous because it enables the Company of Stationers to extort money from publishers, because it empowers the agents of the government to search houses under the authority of general warrants, because it confines the foreign book trade to the port of London; because it detains valuable packages of books at the Custom House till the pages are mildewed.
Better say "I" straight out, "I," responsible for my words here and elsewhere, as they used to say in Congress under the old régime. Besides being the most brave, "I" is also the most modest. It delivers your opinions to the world through a perfectly transparent medium. "I" has no relations. It has no consciousness. It is a pure abstraction. It detains you not a moment from the subject.
Darvid stood on the platform, lost in that crowd of the curious, and snatches of conversation struck his ear. "She will not go!" said one man. "She will! There is time enough yet!" said another. "He detains her purposely, so that she may not go." "He does, for she is beautiful. Her smile is as charming as her song." "He is a daring boy," said some third man near Darvid's other ear.
"Waving out the window to you?" "Of course not!" exclaimed Mr. Van Alstyne testily. "He was raising the window for a girl in the next seat." "Precisely!" I said. "Would you know the girl well enough to trace her?" "That's ridiculous, you know," he said trying to be polite. "Out of a thousand and one things that may have detained him " "Only one thing ever detains Mr.
I, but a simple soldier, and homely lord, with slight influence over Edward, no command in the country, and little practised of speech in the stormy Witan, I am just so great that William dare not harm me, but not so great that he should even wish to harm me." "He detains our kinsmen, why not thee!" said Harold. No, to me danger cannot come. Be ruled, dear Harold."
"I began to think you were not very desirous to hear my news," replied Stephen, "as I have been compelled to wait so long that my friends in Oued Tolga will be wondering what detains me in the Zaouïa, or whether any accident has befallen me." "As thou wert doubtless informed, I am not well, and was not prepared to receive guests.
My staff and I will breakfast inside the city. I assure you that you will be an honoured guest." "I will follow your Excellency," said I. "There is a small engagement which detains me." He opened his eyes. "At this hour?" "Yes, sir," I answered. "My fellow-officers, whom I never saw until last night, will not be content unless they catch another glimpse of me the first thing this morning."
Wherefore, he ought to settle beforehand with what intention he is going to speak, what his object is, what the subject of his discourse is to be, and he ought to exhort his hearers to listen to him while he detains them but a short time. And the whole of his oration ought to be simple, and dignified, and embellished rather by its sentiments than by its expressions.
But then came one of those political crises, in which men ordinarily indifferent to politics rouse themselves to the recollection that the experiment of legislation is not made upon dead matter, but on the living form of a noble country; and in both Houses of Parliament the strength of party is put forth. Harley's hand detains her. "Not so. Share the task, or I quit it.
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