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His account of the capture of Law, for example, given at length in a foot-note to Mill's short account of the action of Gaya after which the affair occurred, is full of truthfulness and local colour.
The will of the majority made plain, it is our healthy custom to strip off our coats, and go to work: The party, not the individual, is of moment; the historic party of our fathers, the party of the living present, the party of the future whose bounds no man may set." As he dropped into his seat, Shelby added a foot-note.
They tell a story which makes a capital foot-note to the history of the battle: that General Jackson, having invited some of the English officers to dine with him, had on the table a robin-pie which he informed the guests contained twelve robins whose heads had all been shot off by one of his marksmen, who, in shooting the twelve, used but thirteen balls.
I have recommended the simple iteration of that one word in answer to him at his meetings, and the printing of it as a foot-note to his letters. Cecilia's combative spirit precipitated her to say, 'I hear the mob in it shouting Captain Beauchamp down. 'Ay, said Mr. Tuckham, 'it would be setting the mob to shout wisely at last. 'The mob is a wild beast.
Moreover, the new military commander did not possess the tact and wisdom of the French admiral, whose policy had not been approved in Prance, where his signing of the convention of La Soledad had been received with dismay and disapproval. * Compare General Prim's letter to Napoleon III, foot-note to pp. 25-27.
The facts for which he searched so diligently, and so longed to find, he did not find. In a foot-note he added: "The place and date of Hudson's birth will doubtless be accurately ascertained in the course of the examinations now being made in England under my directions. The result of these researches I hope to be able to present to the public at no distant day."
There is likely to be a good deal of difference of opinion at the committee meeting to-day," Mr. Thurston said with an air of craftiness which was like an explanatory foot-note to his character, "so I judged that it was well to be provided with documents."
It is almost universally assumed that Paul was a sufferer from some affection of the eyes; the large letters are thus explained. Mr. Conybeare, in a foot-note on this passage, speaks of receiving a letter from the venerable Neander a few months before his death, which illustrates this point in a striking manner: "His letter," says Mr.
Almost all of the old theorists have confessed, usually in a foot-note to the preface or in modest disclaimer lost somewhere in the book, that the great masters would occasionally be found violating certain of their rules. But this did not lead them to deducing their rules from the great masters. Goodrich, however, has, in this matter, begun where Marx ended, and has gone further even than Prout.
W. Walker's most interesting Life of John Skinner of Linshirt, chap. iii. To make the general statements in the text plainer, I add, in a foot-note, some details which time forbade me to introduce into the sermon.
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