On it we can read the date 1624, and the letters I.
Nor does any one seem to have been at the pains to record them verbatim while they remained legible; so that now many conjectural words have to be supplied, by considering the number of letters in the spaces worn away.
For in his case, too, as in that of Lady Mary Cavendish, the secret leaked out before the work was finished, and in 1624 the letters I.
Over the oak, on the outside, is painted his name (always in white capital letters upon a black ground), while at the foot of each staircase a similarly painted list gives the names of all the men whose rooms are to be found upon it.
My letters from Paris say that Decaze, the minister of police, is created a peer and is to marry Princess de Beauveau.
She shall not reprove me for reading her letters to my father.
Some critical remarks in her few letters from London are strikingly direct and acute.
Sullivan himself declared, inletters written after the battle, that he had anticipated such an attack: it was the natural plan of battle for Howe to adopt under the circumstances.
Also he found a few letters of his mother--mostly mere notes in pencil--but neither these nor those of his father which Miss Horn had given him would he read.
In art, in letters and in the conduct of life the most frivolous or trivial or fleeting occupations engaged the attention and absorbed the time.
Letters inculpating them were found, a family and state council was convened, and the page sentenced to death, while all concurred in the guilt of the duchess.
His immediate command, he says in one of the several defensive letters written after the battle, marched a mile from the position it occupied to that in which it met the enemy.
The Presidium also appoints or recalls diplomats, receives credentials and letters of recall of foreign diplomats, and appoints and recalls the supreme commander of the armed forces.
Letters to the general in Rome were for the most part in Italian or Latin, but those to the provincial in Paris were in French.
Also on the other hand she secured letters from his Majesty now reigning, by which a deed of gift was newly granted her of all the lands, ports, and harbors of new France from the great river to Florida, with the sole exception of Port Royal.
However, his rights of trade and government extended to the 54th parallel, as [6] can be learned from the Royal letters that were sent to him.
The Italian and Latin letters were translated for Carayon, into French, in most cases by Martin, who had copied them for that publication.
All of the foregoing letters by Biard, cited by Harrisse, are given in Volumes I.
As for the relations, the titles of which are given in Latin, we think that they are the letters addressed by Father Biard [given in Volumes I.
It is possible that there were, at that period, publications of these letters both in Latin and French; but we have been able to find only one instance of this.
I anticipated no overflowings of fraternal tenderness; Edward's letters had always been such as to prevent the engendering or harbouring of delusions of this sort.
He knew that letters came now and then from New York which saddened Judith and brightened Bertie.
The moment the eye rests upon the score the student knows the measure as definitely and certainly as he knows the letters of the alphabet.
There she found that her hôtel had been visited by the police, and that a cabinet wherein she kept the letters of Louis Napoleon had been broken open and rifled of its contents.
Watson From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table.
Had Sir Charles received any other letters in the same writing?
A passage from one of Lyell's early letters will show how near he too went to this great luminous generalisation, and yet how utterly he missed the true implications of his own vague and chaotic idea.
All his life long, as his letters show us, the great geologist had felt the powerful spell of the Lamarckian hypothesis continually enticing him with its seductive charm.
To make matters worse, nearly all letters to and from me are now confiscated.
The letters he sent me in that last year of his conscious life appear to me to be of no little psychological and biographical interest.
His light and delicate self-irony, which appears not unfrequently in the letters here given, gave place to constantly recurring outbursts of anger with the German public's failure to appreciate the value of his works.
And we see from Flaubert's letters to George Sand how convinced he was of the same thing.
I am not an intruder by nature, so little in fact that I lead an almost isolated life, am indeed loth to write letters and, like all authors, loth to write at all.
Alexander appears, at any rate, to have been no historian, but his staff of cultivated literary assistants and men of letters included many notable Greek names.
None of the letters were however directed to her, and one bore the seal of the Consistorial President.
But she sat still and watched the Antelope, wishing her far better speed in view of the letters she carried.
Hugh had gone ashore and up to the wharf-boat, crossed it, and boarded the busy Antelope with several letters in hand, the twins' letter among them.
Marcia's letters were longer and more regular than his; but he could have forgiven some want of constancy for the sake of a less searching anxiety on her part.
What he really regretted, as he held their letters in his hand, was that he had never got up a correspondence with two or three of the girls whom he had met in Boston.
He also sent letters to one of the Boston journals, which he reproduced in his own sheet, and which gave him an importance that the best endeavor as a country editor would never have won him with the villagers.
Your letters wouldn't be interesting if you gave me the Equity news; but they would if you left it out.
I don't think you'd find my letters very interesting.
He sat a long time with these girls' letters before him, and lost himself in a pensive reverie over their photographs, and over the good times he used to have with them.
Mr. Howells began to write letters home which were printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, and grew easily into a book which still remains in the minds of many of his readers the freshest of all his writings, Venetian Life.
And in his lettershe refers with evident satisfaction to Charles Kingsley's finding nothing in the theory which was inconsistent with an earnest Christian faith.
Constitution was so written that when held at a little distance the shading of the letters and their position showed the countenance of George Washington.
Over the throne which he was to occupy, were placed, in lettersof gold, the following words from the Holy Scriptures: 'I am the I am.
And of many of these great men the letters give us glimpses of the most fascinatingly intimate sort.
And who knows if letters leave Paris regularly in the chaotic state of disorder and danger we are now in?
As soon as we got settled we left our cards and letters of introduction.
I wondered if this was one of the pearls he let drop in his letters to the wonderful English bas-bleu.
The letters of introduction which kind Admiral Polo (Spanish Minister in Washington) gave me must be very powerful and far reaching, for we are received as if we were Princesses of the blood.
I have my writing-table put in the ball-room, and here I sit and write these sad letters to you.
This did not in the least overcome me, as I had several of Liszt's letters at home.
Writing letters seems to be the one thing which I have no time for.
We left Petit Val rather precipitately, leaving everything behind us, clothes in wardrobes and letters in commodes.
From this General Office, letters and packets are despatched— On Mondays.
And these our letters shall be your sufficient warrant for the doing of the same.
But the King, by Letters Patents, under the Great Seal of England, constitutes the Postmaster General.
Here are several lettersfor you, Miss Ruth, and one for Miss Cameron.
The girls began to open their letters as soon as they reached their room.
The irregular nature of my later travels had made it impossible to forward the few letters that had arrived for me.
One simply follows a well-fed commis-voyageur to the nearest popular café and writes his letters there, as a well-habituated traveller should do.
And which is the cause of the other, the sense of the letters, or the letters of the sense?
And when they said that the sense came first, and invented the letters, Antony replied, "If then the sense be sound, the letters are not needed.
So letters had been sent forth, to seek them throughout the world.
The same reference letters are common in both diagrams.
The letters in the above diagram correspond with those in figs.
The noble Thomas Scudamore, king Charles's ambassador, to whom I carried letters of recommendation, received me most courteously at Paris.
A few days after, when I set out for Italy, he gave me lettersto the English merchants on my route, that they might show me any civilities in their power.
What cruelty and scorn I in your bitter letters knew!
Some were Rulers, some soldiers, some darweshes (devotees), some men of letters only.
When he brought out the avowed edition of his letters in 1737, he inserted at the end of the volume a letter of Swift, a letter of his own, and the joint letter from himself and Bolingbroke, of which Curll had obtained a copy.
It is not possible because many of his letters are undated, and, though we can frequently determine their place in each class, there are no means of settling their order when all the letters of doubtful date are thrown together.
Footnote 150: "Whereas there is an impression of certain letters between Dr.
His apology for replacing in the octavos the letters he had rejected was that they were in process of being reinstated in a piratical edition of the quarto.
Ovid's Art of Love, and the Letters of Eloisa and Abelard are known by name to all the world.
He inserted at the end of his first edition the few new letters which were added in the quarto of 1741, and says that he found them in the London impression "after he had reprinted the foregoing sheets.
His caution relaxed as time wore on, and he had the courage to state on the title-page of the first octavo edition of 1737 that he had "added to the letters of the author's own edition all that are genuine from the former impressions.
I have, in like manner, admitted letters which had a biographical value, although they were neither written by Pope nor to him.
Large masses of the letters are undated, or dated falsely, and he was at the labour of fixing dates which sometimes appeared to defy conjecture.
He loved his studies for their own sake, and never did a man of letters work less for personal ends.
A little further, and he comes to the conclusion that until he sees the letters he can form no judgment of the proper measures to be pursued.
Where the originals of Pope's letters were in hostile hands, as was the case with hisletters to Cromwell and to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, he was compelled to be sparing in his operations.
Please it your Grace, there is a messenger That stays to bear my letters to my friends, And I am going to deliver them.
To Milan let me hear from thee by letters Of thy success in love, and what news else Betideth here in absence of thy friend; And I likewise will visit thee with mine.
The young man who lodges here--of the name of Gentilis--he came to you some time ago and told you that the State needed certain letters which the man Basterga kept in a steel box upstairs?
The words wrote themselves before her eyes in letters of fire.
You have only to take a packet of letters from his room--and you go there when you please--and he is yours!
While you have the letters he dare not stir hand or foot, lest you bring him to the scaffold!
Be it your task, young man, to bring the box and the letters unread and untouched to me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "letters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
