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:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.
Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.
:" Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them?
:" For many are called, but few chosen.
As American critic Charles Caffin wrote in 1907 :" He did better than attract a few followers and imitators ; he influenced the whole world of art.
:" Mr. Smith, a surveyor in the Colonial Engineer Department, was on duty inspecting the road down to the Tugela, near Fort Buckingham, which had been made a few years ago by order of Sir Garnet Wolseley, and accompanied by Mr. Deighton, a trader, resident at Fort Buckingham, went down to the ford across the Tugela.
Writing in The Independent, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon said :" Goldsmiths graduates are unembarrassed about promoting themselves and their work: some of the most striking exhibitions in London over the past few months —" The East Country Yard Show ", or " Gambler ", both staged in docklands — have been independently organized and funded by Goldsmiths graduates as showcases for their work.
:" We tacitly elect a few to be the chief tellers of our tales.
" Dargis also describes the film :" Routinely criticized for his weak narratives, Mr. Wong is one of the few filmmakers working in commercial cinema who refuse to be enslaved by traditional storytelling.
:" I often sent pictures of the hills of Guilin which I painted to friends back home, but few believed what they saw.
In a March 15, 1932 memo to Groener, Schleicher wrote in reference to the date of the presidential election :" I am really looking forward to 11 April-then it will be possible to talk to this lying brood with no holds barred ... After the events of the last few days, I am really glad that there is a counterweight the Social Democrats in the form of the Nazis, who are not very decent chaps either and must be stomached with the greatest caution.
:" I personally strung up thirty-five Filipinos without trial, so what was all the fuss over Waller's ' dispatching ' a few ' treacherous savages '?
Furthermore, the Scots ' advantage in numbers is no advantage at all, especially when they are up against properly trained Norman knights :" t is not so much the numbers of the many as the valour of the few that gains the battle.
:" work is one of the few satisfying achievements of our second-rate culture.
:" Amid this desolation, the inhabitants of Jarlshof had contrived, by constant labour and attention, to keep in order a few roods of land, which had been enclosed as a garden, and which, sheltered by the walls of the house itself, from the relentless sea-blast, produced such vegetables as the climate could bring forth, or rather as the sea-gale would permit to grow ; for these islands experience even less of the rigour of cold than is encountered on the mainland of Scotland ; but, unsheltered by a wall of some sort of other, it is scarce possible to raise even the most ordinary culinary vegetables ; and as for shrubs or trees, they are entirely out of the question, such is the force of the sweeping sea-blast.
:" There are just a few areas left in the world where no human has ever set foot.
:" When the stock which a man possesses is no more than sufficient to maintain him for a few days or a few weeks, he seldom thinks of deriving any revenue from it.
:" From references of the first book, that the price of the greater part of commodities resolves itself into three parts, of which one pays the wages of the labour, another the profits of the stock, and a third the rent of the land which had been employed in producing and bringing them to market: that there are, indeed, some commodities of which the price is made up of two of those parts only, the wages of labour, and the profits of stock: and a very few in which it consists altogether in one, the wages of labour: but that the price of every commodity necessarily resolves itself into some one, or other, or all of these three parts ; every part of it which goes neither to rent nor to wages, being necessarily profit to somebody.
:" That system which represents the produce of land as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every country has, so far as by that time, never been adopted by any nation, and it at present exists only in the speculations of a few men of great learning and ingenuity in France.
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An Associated Press article in the September 9, 1932 Sports section of the New York Times describes the end of the return bout as follows :" Two seconds before the fight ended Schaaf was knocked flat on his face, completely knocked out.
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Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....
:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.
:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.
:" When we see leaf-eating insects green, and bark-feeders mottled-grey ; the alpine ptarmigan white in winter, the red-grouse the colour of heather, and the black-grouse that of peaty earth, we must believe that these tints are of service to these birds and insects in preserving them from danger.
:" In the beginning God …" Though we differ in our perceptions and experiences of reality, we affirm our faith in God as the Creator and Governor of the universe.
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:" We magnify you O Mother of the True Light and we glorify you O saint and Mother of God ( Theotokos ) for you have borne unto us the Saviour of the world.
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:" We are not there because of our friendship, we are there because, like you, we believe it is right to be there and, like you, we shall stay there as long as it seems necessary to achieve the purposes of the South Vietnamese Government and the purposes that we join in formulating and progressing together.
:" We worship ," replied Hengist, " our country gods, Saturn and Jupiter, and the other deities that govern the world, but especially Mercury, whom in our language we call Woden and to whom our ancestors consecrated the fourth day of the week, still called after his name Wodensday.
:" If we say that the things known must be in the mind, we are either un-duly limiting the mind's power of knowing, or we are uttering a mere tautology.
:" Many will say to me, ' Lord, Lord, did we not in your name eat and drink and do powerful deeds?
:" Many will say to me on that day, ' Lord, Lord, did we not in your name eat and drink and prophecy and drive out demons?
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:" Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.
:" And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
:" We were justified intuitionistically in using the classical 2-valued logic, when we were using the connectives in building primitive and general recursive predicates, since there is a decision procedure for each general recursive predicate ; i. e. the law of the excluded middle is proved intuitionistically to apply to general recursive predicates.

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