His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

That he read some of the books assigned to him with a studied carefulness is evident from his notes, which are often so full that they provide an unquestionable basis for the identification of reviews that were printed without his signature.

John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

she could dust the plants, then break off suddenly and pick up an old novel and read from the middle on ; ;

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

J. H. Miller's excellent chapter on Great Expectations has lately illustrated how fruitfully that novel can be read from such a perspective.

Since the Catholic Church expresses such desire that the Sacred Scriptures be read, the following taken from the Holy Bible ( New Catholic Edition ) will prove a means of grace and a source of great spiritual blessing.

His chelas were required to assume the matsyendra posture dressed in hand-woven diapers while he read aloud from Rig-Veda and an assistant guru examined their purses in another room -- nothing was stolen ; ;

Typically, when an algorithm is associated with processing information, data is read from an input source, written to an output device, and / or stored for further processing.

The ordering () of Arabic letters used to match that of the older Hebrew, Phoenician and Semitic alphabets ; ( read from right to left: ) or.

Wakefield had read accounts of Australian settlement while in prison in London for attempting to abduct an heiress, and realised that the eastern colonies suffered from a lack of available labour, due to the practice of giving land grants to all arrivals.

The order in which the amino acids are added is read through the genetic code from an mRNA template, which is a RNA copy of one of the organism's genes.

Under the heading of " practices ," his class considers how readers read and marked up their books, forms of note-taking, and the interrelation between reading and writing from copying and translating to composing new texts.

A solicitor brought the will of the Aga Khan III from London to Geneva and read it before the family:

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

They are descended from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed by Indian mathematicians, in which a sequence of digits such as " 975 " is read as a numeral.

Paula can read directly from the system's RAM, using direct memory access ( DMA ), making sound playback without CPU intervention possible.

Struggling against poverty, Patrick learned to read and write and from 1798 taught others.

They read the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, and many others, they examined articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and The Edinburgh Review and read history, geography and biographies.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Calmly he opened the Bible and read of the woman at the well.

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

The American Bishops assembled at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore urged the Catholic people to read the Holy Bible.

In the early days of Christian worship the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.

After publishing its own edition in 1979, the First Presidency announced in 1992 that the KJV was the church's official English Bible, stating " hile other Bible versions may be easier to read than the King James Version, in doctrinal matters latter-day revelation supports the King James Version in preference to other English translations.

For Doke, literacy was part of the evangelisation since people had to able to read to appreciate the message of the Bible, but it was only after his retirement that he completed the translation of the Bible into Lamba.

The Lesson, as it is informally called, is compiled by a committee at The Mother Church, and is usually made up of six sections, each of which consists of passages from the Bible ( read by the Second Reader ) and passages from Science and Health ( read by the First Reader ).

Equally, gays and lesbians do not see the Bible as unequivocally true because they are forced by its use against them to read it more closely and with less credulity, leading them to note its myriad contradictions.

There is a strong emphasis on personal Bible reading and study and many Christadelphians use the Bible Companion to help them systematically read the Bible each year

Often the best teaching comes in the form, " I'll tell you what I think, but read the Bible for yourself, and then study and pray about it.

" The New American Standard Bible ( NASB ) translates this verse in the latter manner, and translations in other languages such as the Dutch Statenvertaling translate it likewise: " When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans ; and you, for your part read my letter ( that is coming ) from Laodicea.

Savonarola argued for art serving as a direct visual illustration of the Bible to educate those unable to read the book.

This capability was most frequently used to read MS-DOS disks.

He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.

160 ), sometimes refers to written sources consisting of narratives of the life of Jesus and quotations of the sayings of Jesus as " memoirs of the apostles " ( Greek: ἀπομνημονεύματα τῶν ἀποστόλων ; transliteration: apomnêmoneúmata tôn apostólôn ) and less frequently as gospels ( Greek: εὐαγγέλιον ; transliteration: euangélion ) which, Justin says, were read every Sunday in the church at Rome ( 1 Apol.

Due to the prevalence of American television programs and motion pictures in which the police characters frequently read suspects their rights, it has become an expected element of arrest procedure — in the 2000 Dickerson decision, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that Miranda warnings had " become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture.

Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction.

This setup is frequently used in strain gauge and resistance thermometer measurements, as it is usually faster to read a voltage level off a meter than to adjust a resistance to zero the voltage.

The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy .< ref > A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940.

Richler frequently said his goal was to be an honest witness to his time and place, and to write at least one book that would be read after his death.

Rayburn always played the action for laughs, and frequently tried to read certain questions in character, such as " Old Man Periwinkle " or " Old Mrs. Pervis ".

Greetings from members of the audience to friends and family at home ( frequently humorous ) are read each week by Keillor just after the show's intermission at the top of the second hour.

Tatiana, like her mother, was deeply religious and read her Bible frequently.

Rousseau in his Confessions p. 160 Penguin Classic notes it as one of the novels read with his father and says it " was the one that recurred most frequently to my mind ".

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" Although this particular letter has often been reprinted, it is frequently changed to read " not ... any " instead.

* Patristic writings Many writings from the Church fathers are prescribed to be read at matins and, during great lent, at the hours ; in practice, this is only done in some monasteries and frequently therein the abbot prescribes readings other than those in the written rubrics.

The most frequently still read are her mysterious short stories.

Image processing programs such as GIMP, Photoshop, XnView and IrfanView can generally read simple FITS images, but frequently cannot interpret more complex tables and databases.

It was very popular in the Byzantine period, and was read and commented on very frequently ; the manuscripts of the Cassandra are numerous.

Girls and women were less frequently able to read and write than boys and men were.

He is also frequently seen questioning the plausibility of fairy tales or nursery rhymes read out by Maisie, whilst at the same time vandalising an alarm clock or other household item.

While Anderson expressed an admiration for Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, the affinities between Turgenev's novel and Winesburg, Ohio ("... both are episodic novels containing loosely bound but closely related sketches, both depend for impact less on dramatic action than on climactic lyrical insight, and in both the individual sketches frequently end with bland understatements that form an ironic coda to the body of the writing " ) may not be a sign of influence since it is not known whether Anderson read the book before writing Winesburg, Ohio.

At one time, it was one of Conrad's most frequently read books.

The parents of Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) could not read music, yet Haydn ’ s father ( who worked as a wheelwright ) taught himself to play the harp, and the Haydn family frequently played and sang together.

He will also frequently read out a short verse, usually a limerick.