It was at this period that he first began to write, and his first contribution to literature took the form of certain papers contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, the subject being the 'Philosophy of Consciousness.
Dear Sirs--It is now over two years since I first began to feel something the matter with me.
About ten years ago, I first began to realize that I was the victim of nasal catarrh; I tried every known remedy, but gradually grew worse.
For 'twas there I first began to tak' heed of men and see how various they were.
I think I was hardly more than twelve years old when I first began to correspond with Maria.
I don't think I shall ever succeed, and yet I am as determined about it as I was when I first began it,--or rather much more so.
Manna, which never fell on the Jewish Sabbath, falls in peculiar and rich abundance on the first day of the week, when it first began to fall.
Indeed, the Jews did make one objection against Jesus Christ that seemed to them to have weight in it, and that was, because he first began to appear and manifest his glory in Cana of Galilee.
I was a great companion of his; I was with him most an end: when he first began to think upon what would come upon us hereafter, I was with him.
No; I was not willing presently to know the evil of sin, nor the destruction that follows upon the doing of it; but tried, when my mind at first began to be shaken with the Word, to shut mine eyes against the light thereof.
No, I was not willing presently to know the evil of sin, nor the damnation that follows upon the commission of it; but endeavoured, when my mind at first began to be shaken with the Word, to shut mine eyes against the light thereof.
I was a great companion of his; I was with him most an end; when he first beganto think of what would come upon us hereafter, I was with him.
In his after life Jasmin was often asked how and when he first began to feel himself a poet.
Jasmin was asked how it was that he first began to write poetry; for every one likes to know the beginnings of self-culture.
When I first began my career as a concert violinist I did pioneer work for the cause of the American woman violinist, going on with the work begun by Mme.
When I first began to play here in concert this prejudice was much stronger.
When I first began to play his D minor concerto I simply made up my mind to get a staccato.
He announced about the time I first began to work, that he would be in his library at his home, every Saturday, ready to lend books to working boys and men.
When I asked him when and where he first began to consider himself famous, he said:— “My first term in congress gave me my first sense of exaltation.
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