Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

The innocence of which I speak is, I know, not incorruptible.

When I speak of how Shann felt, I know well.

The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

I prefer to speak, however, of Sam Rayburn, the person, rather than Sam Rayburn, the American institution.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

Other synonyms could of course serve the same function, and for the sake of ease I shall speak of kennings and epithets in the widest and loosest possible sense, and name, for example, Gar-Dene a kenning for the Danes.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

We have to tell ourselves that when Parker spoke in this vein, he believed what he said, because he could continue, `` But the truth, which cost me bitter tears to say, I must speak, though it cost other tears hotter than fire ''.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

The words might vary but traditionally consisted of a simple formula such as “ I ( Name ) take thee ( Name ) to my wedded husband / wife, till death us depart, and thereto I plight thee my troth ”.

" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".

And so I begged, since I was in a wretched plight, to be given one day for thought and a priest.

I am in a sad plight ....

The United States Chief of Staff also formally restricted the Allied support to French Indochina, 14th USAAF Commander Claire Lee Chennault ( a French-American ) wrote in his memoirs the now famous statement: « I carried out my orders to the letter but I did not relish the idea of leaving Frenchmen to be slaughtered in the jungle while I was forced officially to ignore their plight ».

The lyrics relate the plight of a seventeen-year-old taunted by accusations that feelings for his / her beau are " puppy love ", ending with the refrain " How can I ever tell them this is not a puppy love?

Groom: I, ____, take thee, _____, to be my lawful wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.

The plight of Rann's people was soon resolved by Vril Dox, seeking to restore his reputation after Starro the Conqueror stole L. E. G. I. O. N.

His plight was depicted on the cover of Time Magazine, along with a quotation (" What have I done wrong?

As Boris expresses his plight in one episode: " I put bomb in squirrel's briefcase and who gets blown up?

It relates the plight of the Saite Pharaoh Psammetichus I ( Psamtik ) ( c. 664-610 ) of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt overthrown and in desperation, seeking the advice of the Oracle of Leto at Buto who cryptically advises him to enlist the aid of " brazen men " who would " come from the sea.

When the former players attempted to have the league and the Association consider their plight, Upshaw responded: " The bottom line is I don't work for them.

But Henry, though faced with a host of troubles that would drive more well-adjusted men to static despair (“ I ’ ve lost my home, my wife and my job in the last forty-eight hours ”), continues to exert an indomitably humorous approach to his plight, intimidating the pompous, challenging the ignorant, and as a philosophy major (“ well, a second lieutenant ”) searching always for some trace of an “ ontological significance if any of sublunar existence.

At the thirst WUJS Congress, to which Einstein sent a message highlighting the plight of German Jewry, the opening session was presided over by the renowned British philosopher Samuel Alexander who finished his opening statement with the line " I have become a Zionist ", which was met with wild applause.

In his poem Long Ago I used to Pray, for example, he takes on the perspective of a woman yearning for ' the fierce joy of motherhood ' and presents a sympathetic view of her plight.

' From that very time I made sure to remember that I must convey this wonderful formulation of the social plight of Yiddish to a large audience.

`` In response to your letter, I can in good conscience recommend my son, David, in the field of leadership ''.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

* Oram, Richard, David I: The King Who Made Scotland.

Andronikos I was the last of the Komnenoi to rule Constantinople, although his grandsons Alexios and David founded the Empire of Trebizond in 1204.

* Manuel Komnenos ( born 1145 ), who married Rusudan of Georgia and was the father of Emperor Alexios I and David Komnenos, the founders of the Empire of Trebizond

As God's chosen king over Israel David is also the son of God (" I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me ..."-2 Samuel 7: 14 ).

David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

Hence these words of David: In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

David replies: " While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept.

For example, Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech ( king ) Achish by pretending to be insane-according to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, " Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me?

It's probably why I prefer dressing up as Ziggy to being David.

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

* David I ( disambiguation )

David had his own pupils, about 40 to 50, and was commissioned by the government to paint " Horace defended by his Father ", but he soon decided, " Only in Rome can I paint Romans.

The sword pierces a piece of paper on which is written ‘ I vote the death of the tyrant ’, and as a tribute at the bottom right of the picture David placed the inscription ‘ David to Le Peletier.

As Robespierre was arrested, David yelled to his friend " if you drink hemlock, I shall drink it with you.

It was her coronation by her husband, Napoleon I, that David depicted so memorably in the Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 2 December 1804.