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recollection and was
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
It was the conclusion of the first phase of a process of tragic recollection, and of refining the recollection, that will last as long as there are Jews.
An example of an inflammatory way a question will be asked by a cross-examiner to a witness he was trying to undermine would be " What is your recollection toDAY?
When bibliographer Michael Barrier asked Barks about why he drew it, Barks ' vague recollection was no one was available and he was asked to do it as a favor by editor Chase Craig.
She was rescued from the New York Harbor on September 16 with no recollection of the time in between.
In performing his duties at the court, Telemann was as prolific as in Leipzig, composing at least 200 ouvertures, by his own recollection, and other works.
For example, Immanuel Kant used pure description to discuss recognition and its components and Sir Francis Bacon claimed that the simple observation of the rote recollection of a previously learned list was “ no use to the art ” of memory.
Rousseau had no recollection of learning to read, but he remembered how when he was 5 or 6 his father encouraged his love of reading: Not long afterward, Rousseau abandoned his taste for escapist stories in favor of the antiquity of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, which he would read to his father while he made watches.
Shaffer largely based his allegations on the recollections of Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, who later recanted his recollection, telling investigators that he was " convinced that Atta was not on the chart that we had ".
Phillpott said that Shaffer was " relying on my recollection 100 percent ", and the Defense Department Inspector General's report indicated that Philpott strongly supported the social network analysis techniques used in Able Danger, and might have exaggerated claims of identifying the hijackers.
In later years, musician Nick Harper was asked about his childhood memories spent around The Who ; his first recollection was, " I remember Keith blowing up the toilets.
At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!
The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!
" He then continued by focusing on the manner in which the poem was composed, ' We could have informed Mr. Coleridge of a reverend friend of ours, who actually wrote down two sermons on a passage in the Apocalypse, from the recollection of the spontaneous exercise of his faculties in sleep.
Though it was rumoured at the time that the former Prime Minister had been with a prostitute, his wife stated that Fraser had no recollection of the events and that she believes it more likely that he was the victim of a practical joke by his fellow delegates.
Carl Friedrich Gauss considered the same question: " Ins Jahr 1792 oder 1793 ", according to his own recollection nearly sixty years later in a letter to Encke ( 1849 ), he wrote in his logarithm table ( he was then 15 or 16 ) the short note " Primzahlen unter ".

recollection and by
This explanation is supported by the fact that the sense of " recollection " at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the " previous " experience ( when, where, and how the earlier experience occurred ) are uncertain or believed to be impossible.
Plato's doctrine of recollection, however, addresses such criticism by saying that souls are born with the concepts of the forms, and just have to be reminded of those concepts from back before birth, when the souls were in close contact with the forms in the Platonic heaven.
She was able to perform without mishap ; and, by the following day, she had returned to normal with no recollection of the event.
Sidney Gottlieb, who had retired from the CIA two years previously, was interviewed by the committee but claimed to have very little recollection of the activities of MKUltra.
First, that the recollection of everything done by one party or the other between March, 1585, and our accession to the crown, and during all the preceding period of troubles, remain obliterated and forgotten, as if no such things had ever happened ....
In Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers Althaea is mentioned by the Chorus of captive slaves, serving women of Clytemnestra, in a recollection of ' hatreds that stopped at nothing '.
In most stagings of the musical Cats, which include the song " Growltiger's Last Stand " — a recollection of an old play by Gus the Theatre Cat — the character of Lady Griddlebone sings " The Ballad of Billy McCaw ".
The view that this was a specific commission with a £ 500 advance — two years ' income for Orwell at the time, is based on a recollection by Geoffrey Gorer who was interviewed for Melvyn Bragg's TV programme Omnibus in 1970.
Keaton ’ s negative comments about the film are often reported but this final recollection by Schneider may redress the balance: “ hatever he may have subsequently said to interviewers or reporters about not understanding a moment of what he was doing or what the film was about, what I remember best of our final farewell on the set was that he smiled and half-admitted those six pages were worth doing after all .”
In both cases, perfect copies of forms are acquired, either by direct impression of environmental forms, in the case of perception, or else by virtue of contemplation, understanding and recollection.
On March 27, 2003, Wolfowitz told the House Appropriations Committee that oil revenue earned by Iraq alone would pay for Iraq's reconstruction after the Iraq war ; he testified his " rough recollection " was: " The oil revenues of that country could bring between $ 50 and $ 100 billion over the course of the next two or three years.
Backstory may be revealed by various means, including flashbacks, dialogue, direct narration, summary, recollection, and exposition.
Although recollection is not widely recognized as a distinct fiction-writing mode, the use of recollection is commonly used by authors of fiction.

recollection and another
A study conducted on the recollection of flashbulb memories for the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster sampled two independent groups of subjects on a date close to the disaster, and another eight months later.
They had also another opinion, viz., that if the recollection of any particular text of scripture happened to arise in their minds, this was likewise looked upon as a kind of immediate revelation from heaven.

recollection and witness
This can occur because of flaws in Eyewitness identification ( such as faulty observation and recollection, or bias ), or because a witness is lying.
Her recollection of the documentary is transcribed into first person to give the impression of a witness account of the events captured in the film.
The witness to her confession later repeated his recollection in a televised documentary.
Some visitors to the antiquity department at Muzium Negara has eye witness recollection of magnificent objects such as a 10 feet tall Raja Bersiung Throne and various idols and items from the Valley.
It was even suggested that perhaps the witness, David Cash, had, in fact, been the one to murder Sherrice, as Strohmeyer claimed to have no recollection of his actions and the witness was the one to actually tell him what he had seen him doing in the bathroom that night.

recollection and across
It is a recollection of Paulo's experiences as he made his way across northern Spain on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

recollection and who
Aykroyd's recollection is also asserted to be faulty as to who actually played at Le Hibou.
Here is my best, honest recollection of what happened: someone ( I don't remember who ) led me towards the gun, and I sat down, still laughing, still applauding.
' He would have reached the great mass of people who have but a faint recollection of the horrors of war, and would have showed them the pain and the suffering and the sorrow that war brings with it.
" But ," adds the historian of the Dominican order Jacques Échard, " if he did so, the version lies so closely hid that there is no recollection of it ," and it may be added that it is highly improbable that the man who compiled the Golden Legend ever conceived the necessity of having the Scriptures in the vernacular.
They also have no recollection of who Andrew is, until he informs them of his relation to Tucker.
He claimed to have spoken to one relative who had no recollection of meeting Blair, said " tobacco fields and cattle pastures " were visible from Lynch's parents ' house when they were not, erroneously stated that Lynch's brother was in the National Guard, misspelled Lynch's mother's name, and fabricated a dream that he claimed she had had.
If the country should be saved, I may make him a splendid fortune ; but if the country should be lost, and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country.
The Babylonian Talmud is richer in traditions concerning Hillel than the Jerusalem Talmud because the Babylonians were especially careful to preserve the recollection of their great countryman, and in the Babylonian schools of the third century was proudly quoted the saying of the Judean sage Simeon ben Lakish, in which he placed the activity of Hillel on a level with that of Ezra, who also went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
On 10 August, More wrote to the St. James Chronicle to protest that she “ never saw, heard, or read, a single line of Mrs. Cowley ’ s Tragedy .” In her preface to Albina, Cowley allows that the theatre managers, who in those days also acted as script editors, may have inadvertently given More her ideas: “ Amidst the croud of Plots, and Stage Contrivances, in which a Manager is involv ’ d, recollection is too frequently mistaken for the suggestions of imagination ” in original.
Shaw's attitude immediately changes, and he seems to have no recollection of who he is, where he is, or the identities of anyone around him.
The story begins as a first person narrative in Warwick Castle, where a man details his recollection of a tale told to by an " interested stranger " who is personified as a knight through his simple language and familiarity with ancient armor.
The tale is told as a recollection of one of the men who made chasse-galerie.
I shewed the air to Urbani, who was highly please with it, & begged me to make soft verses for it ; but I had no idea of giving myself any trouble on the subject, till the accidental recollection of that same struggle for Freedom, associated with the glowing idea ’ s of some other struggles of the same nature, not quite so ancient *, roused my rhyming Mania.
Socrates demonstrates his method of questioning and recollection by interrogating a slave who is ignorant of geometry.
At a Senate inquiry on 19 June, Abetz asked a series of questions of a Treasury official, Godwin Grech, who testified that he had a " recollection " that a member of Rudd's staff had sent him an email in February, asking that he provide preferential treatment to Grant.
" Their testing found citizens who were aware of negative advertising were more likely to vote than those who didn't express recollection of such ads.
: Gillian's estranged wife, who was found alongside him, with no recollection of her past.
* This episode marks the first time that Willow takes command of the Scoobies, as Buffy has no recollection of who she is & therefore has no way of leading her friends.

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