In his second letter the old mercer advised his son `` to bye some such warys as yow may selle presentlye with profet.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.

Just before the commission, in a letter to sportswriter Tim Murnane, Spalding noted, " Our good old American game of baseball must have an American Dad.

About seven million years old, an age that makes it one of the youngest open clusters in the Milky Way, it appears to have the shape of a letter A.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.

* Service number ( E. g., 11111 / 00 / 00B, where the first five digits are the ID, the second two are the year the soldier turned 18 years old, the last two digits are the year the soldier enlisted, and the letter is the enlistment group, either A or B )

During his trip, a tempest forced him to stop on an island near Guangzhou, China where he saw the rich merchant Diogo Pereira, an old friend from Cochin, who showed him a letter from Portuguese being held prisoners in Guangzhou asking for a Portuguese ambassador to talk to the Chinese Emperor in their favor.

Sampson ( 1985 ) suggests that: " Evidently the order of the alphabet was felt to be such a concrete thing that a new letter could be added in the middle only if a ' space ' was created by the dropping of an old letter.

Also, if a currency is revalued, the currency code's last letter is changed to distinguish it from the old currency.

The second s is not simply the plural ; by an old convention, it doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plural, just as pp. means " pages ".

Morgan received a letter and she was told she looked too old for the other women, and was replaced with Chisholm.

" In a 2010 interview, Meyer said that this was a myth, and that the sentiment stemmed from a friend's letter to Meyer ; he suggested the story had origins in editing notes received from the White House during the production, which " may have been a joke, but it wouldn't surprise me, him being an old Hollywood guy ".

* " uu ", an old way of spelling the letter " w " in certain Germanic languages ( e. g. the Merseburg Incantations spell the name of the god Woden as Uuôdan ).

In these languages, the letter only exists in old names, loanwords and foreign words.

In a letter to Lord Acton on 11 February 1885, Gladstone criticised Tory Democracy as " demagogism " that " put down pacific, law-respecting, economic elements that ennobled the old Conservatism " but " still, in secret, as obstinately attached as ever to the evil principle of class interests ".

In Modern English, there is also some historical influence from the old English letter yogh ( Ȝȝ ), which develop from Semitic gimel, as shown below.

Petrarch, who wrote in a letter that he was often approached by vinediggers with old coins asking him to buy or to identify the ruler, is credited as the first Renaissance collector.

In a letter to his mother when he was nine years old, Beiderbecke signed off, " frome your Leon Bix Beiderbecke not Bismark Remeber ".

A little before he was 4 years old, he had already written his first letter ; learned how to do multiplication and tell time when an average child would have learned to do all that after the age of 7.

He wrote a private letter to Secretary of War James Seddon, requesting that he be transferred to serve under his old friend Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

One of his most notable acts during his short time as leader of the Soviet Union was in response to a letter from a 10 year old American child from Maine named Samantha Smith, inviting her to the Soviet Union.

And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

Mozart complained bitterly of the intrigues surrounding this incident in a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin that was written in stages between 15 October and 25 October 1787.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

In a letter written to his sister Josephine, however, Pasternak recalled the words of his friend Ekaterina Krashennikova upon reading Doctor Zhivago.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

Towards the end of 1918, Frances sent a letter to Johanna Parvin, a friend in Cape Town, South Africa, where Frances had lived for most of her life, enclosing the photograph of her with the fairies.

12 years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend General Spielsdorf.

This observation was memorialized in a letter to a friend:

He explains in a letter to a friend:

Gauguin, near the end of his career, wrote a letter to a friend in 1902, shortly before Pissarro ’ s death:

Duchamp indicates in a 1917 letter to his sister that a female friend was centrally involved in the conception of this work.

It is unsurprising, in the light of his character and situation at the time, that Galois reacted violently to the rejection letter, and decided to abandon publishing his papers through the Academy and instead publish them privately through his friend Auguste Chevalier.

Appeared in the 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) by Anne Brontë is written in the form of letter from the narrator to his friend with the main heroine's diary inside it.

In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.

Being unwittingly on his deathbed, the philosopher wrote his last letter to his absent host and friend Lord Arundel:

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

An Old and Middle English letter has become a false friend in modern English: the letters thorn ( þ ) and eth ( ð ) were used interchangeably to represent voiced and voiceless dental fricatives now written in English as th ( as in " thick " and " the ").

Contarini in a letter to his friend Cardinal Reginald Pole ( dated 11 November 1538 ) says that his hopes had been wakened anew by the pope's attitude.

Although Gregory's health did not permit him to attend the funeral, he wrote a heartfelt letter of condolence to Basil's brother, Gregory of Nyssa and composed twelve memorial poems dedicated to the memory of his departed friend.