Why and just how the hitherto profound State secrets narrated in these diaries come now to light is suggested by a simple little letter that raises the inquiry, "Did the Imperial Russian family escape?
For instance, there are a couple of diariesthat some men must have kept.
I have not looked at thediaries for thirty-two years, but I find that they have lost nothing in that time.
That does look like the rational course, but one presently guesses from the diaries that the thing would have been wholly irrational--indeed, suicidal.
The authors of the diaries allowed me to copy them exactly as they were written, and the extracts that I have given are without any smoothing over or revision.
Mrs Montefiore has given a most interesting account of that journey in her private journal, printed, but not published, and the following narrative is based upon the entries made therein, and in the diaries of Mr Montefiore.
The entries of the next five years in the diaries refer to numerous important events, interspersed with appeals from communities to Sir Moses to plead the cause of their brethren before the Emperor of Russia.
His diaries all contain either at the beginning or the end of the record of his day's work, some beautiful lines of poetry referring to moral or literary subjects: mostly quotations or extracts from standard works.
The following extracts from the diaries show the nature of Sir Moses' multifarious duties at this time:-- "February 2nd.
It appeared to me most desirable, therefore, in order to convey to the reader a correct idea of the contents of the book, to entitle it "The Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore.
But I would point out that my task would be rendered less difficult, and the chances of error or injustice diminished, if the commanders of units would supply exhaustivediaries and reports on all occasions of importance.
Sims, who performed at the Front the difficult and onerous task of preparing the weekly communique to the Canadian Press and of organising the collection of the various diaries and other data with great success, and of Lieut.
Up to this point we have only followed his career at a distance, but now through the letters and diaries of his wife we shall be enabled to follow it more intimately to the end.
There are short entries in her diaries mentioning the visits of distinguished men and women, but she seldom had time to write more than a few words.
The entries in these early diaries show a quality of clear authentic vision, which was afterwards so characteristic of her conversation.
Her nature was the reverse of introspective and melancholy, but at this time she was often unhappy and dissatisfied for no definite reason; her diaries show it.
Lady John's diaries of 1860 being lost, this incident is given here on the sole authority of the late Sir James Lacaita.
Many entries occur in her diaries protesting against what she felt as mischievous narrowness in the books she read and in the sermons she heard.
Many of the extracts from the diaries quoted in this chapter must be read in the light of the reader's own recollections of the process of getting used to life.
As for his wife, her diaries and letters show that, however high her spirit and firm her principles, her nature was an intensely anxious one.
The readers of this volume will see in some passages extracted from Lady Russell's diaries and letters how deep and strong were her feelings on the subject.
I have seen diarieskept in this way, and they have been very serviceable.
All of us know that this is so, and it is as a kind of catalogue that the little diaries serve their purpose well.
But at most these mother's diaries furnish us only with notes of the near antecedents and not of the remote, which are of extreme importance.
The objective examination and the diaries cannot be considered solely in the light of anthropology, because they chiefly require the aid of psychology.
The section guarded by the Thirty-ninth and the other regiments of the brigade, being on the canal and river, was one pretty thoroughly traversed by the Union soldiers and those who kept diariesmade many interesting entries.
Had all kept diaries the entries would have differed in no essential from the foregoing.
Anthony's diariesand from her letters and manuscripts.
Bacchante," compiled from the letters, diaries and notebooks of the princes, was published in 1886.
The numerous contemporary memoirs and diaries are full of the best material for a picture of George III.
Of these, diaries were kept and written reports made.
All the importantdiaries are presented, with two exceptions.
A few of the importantdiaries are in the form of the original manuscripts or contemporary copies.
Bolton, who is remembered for his editing of the diaries of Crespi, Portola, Anza, and others.
Diaries and letters relating to expeditions of Portola, Fages, and Perez.
Captured diaries of German officers, which reflect the seventh heaven of elation suddenly turned into grim depression, taken in connection with what one saw on the battlefield, reconstruct the scene around that piano.
We stopped to read by the light of a brazier some German soldiers' diaries that the Irishmen had.
The earlier diaries contain pathetic exaggerations of the slightest indiscretion.
The diaries of this period are but sorrowful reading.
The diaries speak of repeated visits, of the arguments employed, of slow and gradual yielding, and of final triumph.
The private diaries consisted of entries made daily at the dates dealt with.
Say to Reinach that I tell you that I don't mind showing him the governing passages in my diaries if he wants to see them, but that they are dead against him.
In my diaries I wrote: "Our side in the Commons are very Jingo about Egypt.
Life, Letters, andDiaries of Shirley Brooks, by G.
There is nowhere in the world a more pitiful or tragic or thought-compelling literature than these diaries of German officers thrust forward without hope and waiting for the end.
She had seen many of the diaries of German soldiers, had read them in the very room where we were sitting.
The writer happens to know of two diarieswhich record, on the testimony of eye-witnesses, the circumstances of the last hours of Garfield, and they differ utterly in essential particulars.
An infinite amount of gossip goes into diaries about men and women that would not stand the test of a moment's contemporary publication.
The reader of early colonial diaries in America will recognize the resemblance of these to the wonders they report.
In the memoirs and diariescan be found many mentions of trials witnessed by the diarist or described to him.
VI I must admit that out of the forty diaries I have examined, there are six or seven that tell of no exactions, either from hypocritical reticence or because certain regiments wage war less vilely.
Sometimes, as we shall see, the diaries supplement one another.
Captain Mitchell and others of the wrecked Hornet were aboard, and he put in a good deal of time copying their diaries and preparing a magazine article which, he believed, would prove his real entrance to the literary world.
Clemens at one time developed a plan for a Noah's Ark book, which was to detail the cruise of the Ark in diaries kept by various members of it-Shem, Ham, and the others.
It was from this germ that in a later day grew the diaries of Adam and Eve, though nothing very satisfactory ever came of this preliminary attempt.
To be sure, Shintoism was never displaced by Buddhism, but the latter made a tremendous appeal to the Japanese temperament, as the Diaries show.
One of the strangest and most interesting things about the Diaries is that their authors were such very different kinds of people.
These Diaries show us a world extraordinarily like our own, if very unlike in more than one important particular.
Fujiwara though one might be, one often had to wait and scheme for an office, and the Diaries contain more than one reference to such waiting and the bitter disappointment when the office was not up to expectation.
The poems in the Diaries are all tankas in the original.
But, after all, diseases and conflagrations are seldom more than episodes in a normal life lived under sane conditions, and it is just because these Diaries reflect the real life of these three ladies that they are important.
Just as Sir Richard's conversation was better than his books, so, we are told, his diaries were better than his conversation.
Similarly, we find entries in diaries which reveal a genuine pity for the population and disgust at the conduct of the army.
From time to time references to these diaries will be found in the text of the report.
If any further confirmation had been needed, we found it in the diaries in which German officers and private soldiers have recorded incidents just such as those to which the Belgian witnesses depose.
It will be found in Appendix B after the German diaries shown to us by the British War Office.
A good many of these diaries were collected on the field when British troops were advancing over ground which had been held by the enemy, were sent to headquarters in France, and dispatched thence to the War Office in England.
In this connection the diaries of Kurt Hoffman and a soldier of the 112th Regiment, (Diary No.
The committee have also had before them a number of diaries taken from the German dead.
A reference to the German diaries in the appendix will give some idea of the extent to which the army gave itself up to drink through the month of August.
This book is pervaded throughout by the view that whatever military needs suggest becomes thereby lawful, and upon this principle, as the diaries show, the German officers acted.
It appears to be the custom in the German Army for soldiers to be encouraged to keep diaries and to record in them the chief events of each day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diaries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
