He preferred digging a grave with his sword rather than tamely submit to foreign dictation based upon tyranny and enforced by the insolent task masters of the crown.
In 1773 he was elected to the Assembly of his Province and was one of the members who conducted the impeachment of Peter Oliver, then Chief Justice, who was accused of acting under the dictation of the king instead of the Assembly.
As a matter of respect for their new and important ally, Congress partially modified the instructions of Mr. Adams but did not place him under the dictation of the Duke as requested.
One written exercise each week (dictation and easy composition.
But enough has been said to convince even the most skeptical that our Potomac Army did not stand alone in being forced to stand still before the dictation of the elements.
A conspiracy was formed to compel a first-class power, representing thirty millions of people, to submit to the dictation of about three hundred thousand of its citizens.
That morning when the dictation ended he said: "Have you any special place to lunch, to-day?
The dictation ended, he would ask his secretary to play the orchestrelle, which at great expense had been freighted up from New York.
With short-hand dictation one can talk as if he were at his own dinner-table always an inspiring place.
The writer of this memoir visited him in 1910 and took down from his dictation the dialogue that follows.
The king, however, soon quarrelled with his minister, being jealous of his commanding abilities, and unused todictation from any source.
An army of three hundred thousand men which obeyed thedictation of the Diet was not to be resisted; and as this Diet was controlled by Austria and Prussia, it became every year more despotic and anti-democratic.
He recognized his own dictation in the big man's hand.
XIX Jean was called up for examination, but with his insufficient preparation he got hopelessly fogged in the intricacies of a difficult, tricky piece of dictation and sums that were too long to be worked in the time allowed the candidates.
A man may have proper respect for his faith, and may yet resent the dictation of his family priest.
But how much lower has England sunk when she accepts the dictation of these men, and says, 'You can manage your own affairs and direct my business too.
Henry told me he meant to fight that battle in New York; that he would have a church that would stand by him to resist the tyrannic dictationof Southern slaveholders.
I never took to Latin, and I hated spelling, and even if I liked it, five lines of dictation once in seven days wouldn't make a literary character of a chap.
She had erased, but she had not formed a single letter; and the little note Mrs. Anson had written at her dictation was like eternity, without beginning or end, without date or local habitation.
You say you were accustomed to write at his dictation evenings?
Meantime I wrote at Mr. Leavenworth's dictation and pleased him.
Sullenly, we resent her dictation as that of a usurper--a lay impropriator of our professional heritage.
A new aristocracy had arisen from the decks who saw, in the pull of their sails, a weapon more powerful than shock ordnance, and resented the dictation of landsmen on their own sea-province.
The lectures should in no case be conducted primarily as an exercise in dictation and note taking.
Some instructors, dismayed by the amount of knowledge lost by students, resort to dictation devices.
I had written love letters at the dictation of one or two of the men.
Various methods may be used for holding the kitchen sink and the bathroom basin in place, and it is much better for the children to evolve one of their own than to follow the teacher's dictation from the start.
The ready-made pattern implies dictation on the part of the teacher and mechanical imitation and repetition on the part of the pupil,--a process almost fatal to spontaneous effort.
In this instance those who belonged to the persevering group were happy in a new-found sense of strength and independence, while the others had accomplished as much as any would have done under the dictation method.
We discard the belief that the bible was written by God, or by man under the immediate dictation of God, and that its teachings are therefore infallible.
After forty days of labor, Jehovah delivers the moral law, and not wishing to entrust the work of taking down his dictation to Moses, he inscribes them on imperishable stone, with his own hand.
Hazel's work consisted largely of dictationfrom the shipping manager, letters relating to outgoing consignments of implements.
His secretary would have to take his dictation when he felt able to give it; must, in short, be a sort of companion to him.
She had never taken dictation from the editor before.
The armistice was quickly followed by negotiations, and those were completed on the 23d of August, exactly seventy days after the Diet, at the dictation of Austria, had given up Prussia to punishment, to be inflicted by the Austrian sword.
After the dictationon a cylinder has been transcribed it is shaved, and is then ready for a new record.
If you handle a heavy correspondence there will be many days when you will find it impossible to transcribe all of the dictation you have taken, but some of the letters will be important while others can be held over without loss.
In the opinion of the writer, the chief advantage lies in having the machine at hand ready for dictation day or night.
Another strong point in favor of the more modern plan is that each stenographer becomes familiar with the dictation of all departments, and no stenographer has an opportunity to become familiar with the secrets of the business.
These should be not only dictated first, but transcribed and forwarded to the next department before further dictation is given.
One of the greatest time savers in handling correspondence is dictationby numbers.
The new stenographer can be given some dictation in each department while becoming familiar with the work.
At the dictation of the pope, the Irish clergy met at Waterford and took the oath of allegiance to Henry and his successors.
Yet officially she was still Mr. Truax's secretary; she took his dictation and his moods.
When he had finished he demanded, "Ever take anydictation in this office before?
Indeed, he often stopped during dictation to lean across the enormous mahogany desk and explain to Una how much of a connoisseur he was in tennis, fly-casting, the ordering of small, smart dinners at the Plaza.
You get my dictation better than that agitated antelope Miss Harman does, right now.
Two days later it occurred to him to test her in regard to speed in dictation and typing, and a few other minor things of the sort which her ability as a long-distance listener had made him overlook.
Restive Clergymen Some of the clergy have the independence to break away, and the intellect to maintain themselves as free men, but the most are compelled to submit to the dictation of the orthodox, and the dead.
The Southern people must submit, not to the dictation of the North, but to the nation's will and to the verdict of mankind.
