Mr. Smith observed to me not long before his death, that after all his practice in writing he composed as slowly, and with as great difficulty as at first.
Lord Shelburne says that 'her husband, the last Duke, could neither read nor write without great difficulty.
The experiments of Cavasse[776] seem to show that there is no great difficulty in fracturing the thyroid in strangulation.
If the wound is not recent there is great difficulty in judging of the cause.
There is no great difficulty in detecting the smallest fragments of bone by means of the microscope, but we cannot say with safety whether the fragments belonged to a mouse, a man, or an elephant.
A great difficulty arose on this question, and the whole six nations took part in it.
They have met with a great difficulty in the house," he continued, "while everything else is right.
I see no great difficulty, therefore, in settlin' this matter on the spot, so as to have no more hard feelin's or hot words atween us.
At the opening of the sixteenth century, before the suppression of the monasteries had suggested itself in a practical form, pauperism was a state question of great difficulty, and as such I have at present to consider it.
His consent had been obtained with great difficulty, on the representation of the bishops that the translation was faulty, and on their undertaking themselves to supply the place of it with a corrected version.
Henry consented to their request, it is likely with no great difficulty, and availed himself of the opportunity to read a lesson much needed to the remainder of the bench.
But I suppose, Sir John, that there is no great difficulty in obtaining a dispensation from our vows?
It would be too dangerous; and even were a spike driven in, the Turks would have no great difficulty in extracting it, for the tubes are so big that a man might crawl in and drive the spike up from the inside.
We should find, we knew, great difficulty in removing the debris which encumbered it, and the walls might at any moment fall down and crush us.
There's nogreat difficulty in the undertaking, besides having to keep out of the way of the French pickets.
Cases of this kind will continually occur in life, and a good man who deals with each case as it arises will probably find no great difficulty in steering his course.
Apart from the questions I have discussed there is another class of questions connected with war which present great difficulty.
There will be great difficulty in getting the Italians to accept a reasonable amount of territory with Venice.
I hear that the Government mean to hand over Eyre to the Radicals; and though there is much in his case hard to defend, that the man did his best in a great difficulty according to 'his lights' I am convinced.
The facts which have placed the prisoner at the bar before you are these, and in detailing them I feel myself placed in circumstances of great difficulty, and also of peculiar delicacy.
Sir Robert ingeniously extricates Himself out of a great Difficulty.
Sir Robert ingeniously extricates Himself out of a great Difficulty XVII.
From Herat eastwards, past Obeh as far as Daolatyar, there is no great difficulty to be overcome by the traveller, although the route diverges from the main valley for a space.
I have already pointed out that, judged by the standard of geographical aptitude only, there is no great difficulty in reaching Persia from Karachi.
Until the desert was encountered there was no great difficultyon this route, but the horror of that desert crossing fully atoned for any lack of unpleasant incident previously.
There was no great difficulty in crossing the divide between Zebak (a small but not unimportant town) and the elbow of the Oxus River at Ishkashm.
It is now a matter of great difficulty to impose on the world of scholars, in matters connected with their studies, or at least to keep up the deception for any length of time.
There is no difficulty either in understanding or acquiring most kinds of property, but there is great difficulty in what relates to slaves.
Truly there is no great wisdom in knowing, and no great difficulty in telling, after the evil has happened; but to have foreseen the remedy at the time would have taken a much wiser head than ours.
I had from the first a great difficulty in making Dr.
But, since the scene was to be laid during the very years, and at the head-quarters, of Tractarianism, some expedient was necessary in order to meet what was a great difficulty.
The doctrine of Transubstantiation is a great difficulty with me, as being, as I think, not primitive.
In considering this question in its bearing upon my conduct in 1843, my own simple answer to my great difficulty was, Do what your present state of opinion requires, and let that doing tell: speak by acts.
We cannot wonder that the making of water-tight connexions was a great difficulty, and we can sympathise with his belief that he could have got a column more than 21 feet high but for the leaking of the joints on several occasions.
The morphology of the male sporophyll of Cycas, however, presents a great difficulty, and Brown, less fortunate here, discusses a number of what seemed to him possible explanations.
Like George Stephenson, Harrison always had a great difficulty in making himself understood, either by speech or writing.
Of course it was a matter of great difficulty to one who knew comparatively little of the use of tools.
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