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Example sentences for "himself tells"

  • He, however, as he himself tells us, acquired most of his knowledge of the opinions of Wycliffe and other theologians from his frequent conversations with numerous Bohemian priests.

  • Of Bilek little is known but what he himself tells us in his book.

  • Marianus Scotus, the Chronicler, was born, as he himself tells us, in the year A.

  • Columba's death, and, as we may fairly assume, was in his youth placed under the care of the monks of Drumhome, in whose old churchyard he himself tells us many of the monks of Columba await a happy resurrection.

  • In the time of Usher it was still preserved at Kells; but he secured it when Bishop of Meath, as he himself tells us, to collate the readings with the Vulgate; whether it was by purchase or otherwise we cannot say.

  • He himself tells us that he made his first campaign at the age of seventeen, when Hannibal was ranging through Italy uncontrolled.

  • He himself tells us, that in his whole life he repented of three things only:--First, that he had trusted a woman with a secret.

  • It is not only among the Pythagoreans that one hears this claim supported, for Aristoxenus is of that opinion, and Homer too regarded the bards as amongst the wisest of mankind.

  • Footnote: Richard Baxter, as he himself tells us, sent communications from the country to Edwards.

  • Exact care hath been taken," he himself tells us in the Introduction to a MS.

  • He himself tells us that he was "stiff, moody, and of violent temper.

  • Before he was seven years old, as he himself tells us,[37] he was set to learn to read and write.

  • He himself tells us this in De Montibus, Sylvis, Lacubus, etc.

  • He himself tells us that a critic should "first seek out some one with whom he can contend," and quotes in justification from one of Aristotle's commentators, Solet Aristoteles quaerere pugnam in suis libris.

  • He himself tells us that he had read Polybius "in English, with the pleasure of a boy, before he was ten years of age, and yet even then had some dark notions of the prudence with which he conducted his design.

  • That his style was no easy acquisition (though, of course, the aptitude was innate) he himself tells us.


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