Mr. Duff inclines to the opinion that the 'Flete-brigge' is the earlier, but it seems almost hopeless to attempt to place these books in any chronological order from their typographical peculiarities.
The Company's last attempt to suppress Cantrell Legg, and prevent him from printing grammars and prayer-books, led to an appeal to the King, who made short work of the matter by ordering the two parties to come to an agreement.
The Duchess used to talk with him on literary matters, and he told her of his attempt to translate the Recueil.
The attempt to immediately transform a subject people was a signal failure, but neither the attemptnor the failure was unique.
The Illinois delegate in Congress was instructed that if the bargain could not be made, he should attempt to secure an appropriation for opening a road from Shawneetown to the Saline and thence to Kaskaskia.
In the work here presented, an attempthas been made to apply in the field of history, the study of types so long in use in biological science.
Three years later an unsuccessful attempt to secure such a law was made in New York.
No attempt was made to regularize the use of quotation marks, except to supply those that were clearly missing.
The first week was without visible result, and some who were weak in faith abandoned the attempt to test the matter in that way.
The theological creeds and formulas which are found in the libraries are written by talented, studious scholars who put their own conclusion into print and do not attempt to set out the opinions retained by the masses.
This beautiful creature was robed to-day in widow's mourning-garb made in the severest fashion, without one attempt to decorate or lighten it.
I do not attempt to pretend, even to myself, that she is not the loveliest woman I ever knew.
When the Bolsheviki seized the government of Russia and began to attempt to carry out their ideas, Bolshevism became a living movement in a world of reality and subject to the acid test of pragmatic criteria.
In February, 1880, occurred the famousattempt to blow up the Winter Palace.
Kerensky recognized that it was useless for him to attempt to carry on the fight.
The Provisional Government was not blind to the peril of this propaganda, but it dared not attempt to end it by force, conscious that any attempt to do so would provoke revolt which could not be stayed.
Kerensky's attempt to rally forces enough to put an end to this dictatorship was a pathetic failure, as it was bound to be.
Thus some attempt to apply their theories, others wish to measure the height of their personal influence, while still others (and they are found in every movement) seek to profit by the circumstances.
The latter dared not attempt to assume the imperial rôle.
As well attemptto express by words the grandeur of Heaven!
I dare not attempt what your highness has attempted in vain.
We will not attempt to describe the gratitude and surprise of this family, so abruptly snatched from a fearful fate; in the first burst of happiness, even the death of the little girl was forgotten.
He was dressed with anattempt at finery, quite ridiculous.
The prize gave me courage to attempt the other casks; but I found little more that I immediately wanted.
So this important affair was committed to me, with orders to prepare a conveyance for you, which I cannot attempt to do; but shall refer myself to your more solid judgment in the contrivance of it.
I was even mad enough to think of venturing up the cavern again, but was restrained from the attemptby the certain impracticableness of it Then I thought Youwarkee should make another trip to the ship.
I saw no attempt to ‘overawe’ us,” Bessie nevertheless persisted.
She had an ideal of conduct for a young man who should find himself in this grand position, and she tried to adapt it to her friend’s behaviour as you might attempt to fit a silhouette in cut paper over a shadow projected on a wall.
He was not insensible to any discrimination that told in his favour; but these words shocked him as if they had been an attempt at bribery.
It’s touching to hear her attemptthose flights, for in New Mexico she knew nothing about modelling.
A few, verily, were indispensable, and we needn’t attempt to scan too critically the more or less adventurous excursions into poetry and fable with which she entertained and mystified Sir Arthur.
It was useless to attempt to conceal it: his marriage had made a difference and a worry, had put a barrier that she was yet under the painful obligation of trying to seem not to notice.
About the intermarriage of races from the point of view—” And Sidney Feeder paused a moment, occupied with the attempt to scratch the nose of the beautiful horse.
She thus expressed the liveliest disapproval of any attempt to combine historical researches with the purchase of hair-brushes and notepaper.
The present book is an attempt at a key to the everyday birds of the plains of India, a dictionary of birds so arranged that the budding ornithologist is able to turn up any particular bird in a few minutes.
To attempt to distinguish in the lists between the many shades of blue would have led to inevitable confusion.
I shall not attempt to describe these birds, as, although it may be possible to tell the male birds apart, the hens are so alike that to distinguish them is no easy matter.
The descriptions given in Part II of the book are short ones, and each is an attemptto depict the bird as it looks when perched in a tree or during flight.
For my part I am able merely to attempt a description of two or three of the very commonest forms.
Nor was there ever among us the least attempttowards an insurrection in favour of the Pretender.
Thought you wouldn't attempt to do anything without confiding in me.
But tubs have to be filled, Martha, dear," said the constable, with an attempt at a smile.
She told him about the sick hen and she outlined her eventful day, culminating in the tumble from the apple tree and Richard's attempt to render first aid in the washroom.
The Gay farm looked more dilapidated than ever to Rosemary's eyes and the little attempt at a flower bed, in the center of the long, dried grass before the house, only made the general effect more hopeless.
Sarah had ridden her around the pasture a number of times, but it had never occurred to anyone that she would attempt to drive her.
Sarah was exceedingly put out and she did not attempt to disguise her state of mind.
Rosemary had often felt a curiosity to know what was beyond a bend in a road, but she never remembered making a deliberate attempt to gratify that feeling.
I made no attempt to hold her to any restrictions.
And the baby lavished love without measure upon her, and clung to her when any attempt was made to take him away, and made wild little demonstrations of delight at her approach; and all day she was happy.
Irene made a feint of joining in his gayety, and said something about not thinking it worth while to attempt what he had failed in accomplishing.
He had been skilful also in his attempt to make his mother see the woman of his choice with his eyes.
Ruth had seen her twice a day ever since there had been any admittance for other than those in constant attendance, but her visits had necessarily been very brief, and there had been no attempt at conversation.
Yes, indeed," he said with a brave attemptat gayety.
The attempt to reach it appears both poetical and perilous to a looker-on, but may be accomplished without much more difficulty or hazard than in stemming a violent northeaster.
Only a few points are suggested, to indicate the way, and no attempt is made to cover the ground adequately; this remains for the teacher to do.
After an unsuccessful attempt to take the arsenal and castle at Dublin, he fled to the Wicklow mountains, whence he planned to escape to the continent.
I never felt deeper grief than when I saw him attempt this act--although I knew he was a madman when he did it--a raving maniac through sheer fright.
Such a hurricane as then blew it is folly to attempt describing.
When the miner comes to a fault, he should follow the greater angle in his attempt to recover the lode.
Sometimes the pioneer is forced toattempt a good many investigations with very simple apparatus.
Much to her surprise and discomfiture she found him not only firmly resolved to assert his own independence, and to resist to the utmost any attempt at interference, but even prepared to instruct if need be.
On one occasion a combination of circumstances led her to attempt to set him right on a certain matter connected with his own department.
Mind you, Miss McCartney, I do not attempt to spare myself in the telling; I want you to judge fairly of my character.
If you attempt to make me, I shall be compelled to leave the place, to go away from the island.
Ellison made no attempt to speak to her, and she gave no sign to show that she saw him.
There was every prospect of a fight, and as the company had stood in need of some sort of excitement for a considerable time past, they did not attempt to stop it.
I shall not attempt to learn the language of the country, which is a harsh dialect of the Teutonic.
They cared very little how Christian spent his time, or what associates he selected, so long as there was no evident attempt to tear the power from them.
It was, consequently, very natural that Struensee should try to effect improvements, so soon as he felt his own position sufficiently secure to enable him to attempt the necessary reforms.
Some attempt at taste seems to have been made on this occasion, for we read of a splendid temple with festoons of flowers and emblematical pictures alluding to the arts and sciences.
No one was by to observe him--he might dare the attempt at once.
He had heard from his mother how anxiously she was guarded from him and his; still Paulina's severity would certainly not have hindered the artist from making the attempt to possess himself of his dearest treasure.
When November had begun and another attempt to run away during their move back to the town-house had failed, Paulina tried to punish her by never speaking a word to her for a fortnight, and forbidding even the slave- women to speak to her.
She felt like a prisoner; and in fact she was one, for after eachattempt at flight her freedom of movement was still farther impeded.
Walter and Harry Chinnery most generously made an expensive attempt to raise the lost standard of British sculling, by giving 1000l.
This was a venial result of oarsmen being driven--by emulation to win prizes in races immediately impending--to attempt to run before they had learnt to walk, so to speak.
No one should attempt to coach a crew without striving to obtain a practical insight into their nature and order of succession.
Fortunately, wiser counsels prevailed, and oarsmen realised that it was better to attempt to raise their own talents to the standard required for the improved build than to detract from the build to suit the failings of mediocrity.
Anyhow, no trainer should attempt to administer them on his own account; if he thinks the men need physic at the outset, let him call in a medical man to prescribe for them.
And yet if it be possible to deal more philosophically with a subject of the kind, the attempt ought not necessarily to be devoid of interest.
We remember a four going out in this half without permission and an attemptbeing made to row up to Maidenhead when lock-up was at 6.
Once only did a headmaster attempt to stop an eight which he heard was to row up to Surly; this was Dr.
He feels as if he should hardly be surprised at a retort not to attempt to teach his grandmother; but, on the contrary, the admonition is meekly accepted, and the pilot begins at once to gain confidence in himself.
An attempt was made in 1820 to have a match against Westminster; the challenge from them was accepted, and an eight chosen, but the authorities forbade it.
Rush had once been the Australian champion; Trickett had beaten him before tackling Sadler, and this was a new attempt by Rush to regain his lost honours.
I will either die in the attempt or succeed; better perish all together in one fatal hour, than to suffer what we daily endure.
Cowden Clarke places the attempt two years earlier, but his memory for dates was, as he owns, the vaguest.
In an attempt of this scope, I have necessarily had to repeat matters of common knowledge and to say again things that others have said well and sufficiently already.
It set before me the gradations of happiness, even like a kind of pleasure thermometer, and is my first step towards the chief attempt in the drama.
But the attempt soon proved beyond his strength and was abandoned.
His only otherattempt in poetry during those weeks was a translation from a sonnet of Ronsard, whose works Taylor had lent him and from whom he got some hints for the names and characters of his Titans.
No one, least of all one living in Keats's circle, could well attempt stage criticism at this time without trying to write like Hazlitt.
In deference to his judgment Keats at once abandoned it, and a second attempt says briefly, with perfect dignity and taste, all that can justly be said in dispraise of his work.
Oh, nothin'," she answered, with an attempt at a smile.
Considering that Seth had, for the past eight years, persistently opposed in town-meeting any attempt to purchase a hand engine, this was a rather surprising speech, but no one paid any attention to it then.
So Captain Perez continued his dismalattempt at facetiousness.
Captain Eri began to fear that he might die from cold and exhaustion before the attempt at landing was made.
The Captain did not attempt to urge him, neither did he preach or patronize.
From a story which he tells in his Complete English Tradesman, recalling the cleverness with which he defeated an attempt to outwit him about a consignment of brandy, we learn that his business sometimes took him to Spain.
If this paper," the first sentence runs, "was not intended to be what no paper at present is, we should never attempt to crowd in among such a throng of public writers as at this time oppress the town.
He was equally unsuccessful in his attempt to touch deeper feelings by exhibiting in a pamphlet, which is perhaps the ablest of the series, The danger of the Protestant Religion, from the present prospect of a Religious War in Europe.
For me, the ransom of my bold attempt Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face; But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt The least of you shall share his part thereof.
In 1448 Nicholas Upton the precentor tried to limit the choice of the choristers to three candidates selected by the chapter; but this attempt to curtail their privilege was successfully resisted by the boys.
He made a bold but fruitless attempt to annex the Abbey of Malmesbury.
