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I feel assured, although I have not witnessed the experiment, that when the surface wind is from the east, as it was for several days last week, an observer in the balloon can be made to float nearly to the enemy's camp ( as it is now situated to the west of us ), or even to float over it, and then return eastward by rising to a higher elevation.
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Help me up, I feel kind of stiff ''.
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
I understand how you feel about the child.
If I could make myself feel the same way
`` I feel like getting back to town, that's what I feel like!!
And therein, I feel, many Northerners delude themselves about the South.
But I usually stick to the old phrase: ' Ich habe ein Amt, aber keine Meinung ( I hold an office, but I do not feel entitled to have an opinion ).
I feel obliged to describe this cubbyhole.
The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.
I did not feel it presumptuous to expect that the Creator would be at least as just as the most righteous of His creatures ; ;
It is hard for me to know how I feel about Lauro Di Bosis.
His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.
I feel compelled to write this because I am greatly concerned with the problem of community growth rate and the relation between types of growth in a town such as East Greenwich.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
I and assured
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.
The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.
Miriam said that she must be assured that `` that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along ''.
I am assured by experts that the thrust of our present missiles is fully adequate for defense requirements.
But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.
Whether the pair of Sudanese ivory carvings you lifted really possess the juju to turn your livers to lead, as a dealer in Khartoum assured me, I am not competent to say.
The pursuit of wisdom, he assured his readers of the Boethius, was the surest path to power: " Study Wisdom, then, and, when you have learned it, condemn it not, for I tell you that by its means you may without fail attain to power, yea, even though not desiring it ".
When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.
The memoradum stated that " I am assured that the solution of the problem of Palestine which would be much the most welcome to the leaders and supporters of the Zionist movement throughout the world would be the annexation of the country to the British Empire ".
And I think that can only be assured by democracy based on consensus.
Bismarck believed that as long as Britain, Russia and Italy were assured of the peaceful nature of the German Empire, French belligerency could be contained ; his diplomatic feats were undone, however, by Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose policies unified other European powers against Germany in time for World War I.
Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.
It was clear Putnam was not willing to withdraw completely from the world of librarianship, stating “ I would willingly surrender the administration, if that course would serve the interest of the library and I could feel assured as to my successor .” Putnam provided the suggestion of “ Librarian Emeritus ” be developed as his new official title, with an honorarium of one-half of his original salary.
She explained " I keep the good will of all my husbands — my good people — for if they did not rest assured of some special love towards them, they would not readily yield me such good obedience ," and promised in 1563 they would never have a more natural mother than she.
On March 1, Roosevelt assured Congress that " I come from the Crimea with a firm belief that we have made a start on the road to a world of peace.
hobgoblins, my Chinese bridge, which I am assured is
Rest assured, I love the Fatherland just as much as you do.
He observed that at the time he was writing there was a case before the Chancery court " which was commenced nearly twenty years ago ... and which is ( I am assured ) no nearer to its termination now than when it was begun ".
And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.
I ), though, at the same time, we are assured of the existence of an external world corresponding to these ideas.
I and although
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.
But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.
And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.
I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.
I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.
so that, although not as eager as I once was to be disapproved of, I can still resist prevailing opinions.
I think all this could apply to Parker just as well, although, because of the nature of music, it is not demonstrable -- at least not conclusively.
Throughout these exciting years I have been fortunate for, although I have never offered great financial inducements, talent has found its way to me: William Boal who so ably organizes business operations ; ;
I say `` apparently '' although I saw Jouvet as Arnolphe when he visited this country shortly before his death ; ;
The jacket biography describes him as a former racing driver, and he may indeed have been, although I do not recall having encountered his name either in the records or the literature.
It wasn't just the pressure of work, although that was the excuse I often used, even to myself.
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