More and more, however, the project of writing a History of England had taken possession of him, and he began now to forego all other literary occupation, and to devote all his leisure time to that great work.
For similar reasons he couldn't explain too clearly what his project was, but he hoped that he had gotten a picture of what it was like across to his girl.
Still, the project was proceeding almost automatically, just now.
He made it clear to the Congress of Verona that England would not sanction any project for the interference of foreign sovereigns with the domestic affairs of Spain.
Thus it happened in the case of that destructive project for a bank in Ireland, which was brought into Parliament a few years ago; and it was allowed, that the arguments and writings of some without doors, contributed very much to reject it.
That his cursed project will put us under the necessity of selling our goods for what is equal to nothing.
And if the project miscarry, my private merit is still entire.
I am sure their opinion of Wood and his project is not mended since the last prorogation; and supposing those methods should be used which detractors tell us have been sometimes put in practice for gaining votes.
I will conclude with humbly offering one proposal, which, if it were put in practice, would blow up this destructive project at once.
Such were the circumstances under which Napoleon then undertook his long meditated and deeply laid project for the invasion and conquest of Great Britain.
The views of those who opposed the project prevailed.
Your project is certainly an admirable one; to find the scientific nomenclature where it is best established, and by the help of good specimens transport it to your own doors.
Hunger for a life of activity kept his mind on his project of work.
He had also revived his project of a Synthetic Philosophy.
His project of "being somebody" required a skilled manager.
But the project seemed to hold very little promise.
Your conduct is certainly a masterpiece of prudence; in a contrary supposition, it would be the highest act of folly; and to tell you my sentiments freely, I fear your project is entirely chimerical.
As you are the depository of all the secrets of my heart, I will intrust you with the greatest project I ever formed.
I approve this project well enough; however, it requires great management.
Bold as was the project of a railroad on the Rigi, a still bolder scheme was broached ten years later, when a daring genius proposed a railroad up Mt.
The poor results so far make the stockholders sick of the project of extending the road.
This atrocious project would undoubtedly have been carried out, had not Ledyard himself repudiated it with horror.
The legislation upon one of his bills finally matured a pet project of many years, the Military Academy at West Point.
Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria, and he was compelled, after a short war, to give up for the time his project and to agree to the treaty of Teschen (1779).
On this account the project of establishing a ship-canal of modern dimensions along this route has been as often revived as that of the Black Sea and Baltic canal.
The logic was perfect; the proposition that on which every "project of peace" must eventually break.
Then he must learn to project his own mental vibrations with sufficient intensity and force to be "caught" by the sensitive perceptive organism of the medium.
They know not why, but whatever they can 'lay hold of' to speak, or whatever the spirit people can project into their sphere seems forced and incomplete.
His pet project was to cruise in European waters, and he wanted to get near the British coast with a ship--or better--a squadron of some force.
Captain Lafitte was obdurate, for--strange as it may seem--he wished to inform the officers of the State Government of this project of the English.
One of the reasons that buildings and trees are struck by lightning is because they project up into the air, and according to their height, they remove a corresponding amount of the poorly conducting air.
Up to the garrisoning of Fort Sumter he favored the project of secession full as decidedly as he afterwards crossed it.
Mr. Bernard found out their project accidentally, and, wishing to have his share in it, brought home from one of his long walks some boughs full of variously tinted leaves, such as were still clinging to the stricken trees.
This project promptly disappears from the documents, presumably on the discovery that tailoring and bootmaking were skilled occupations, beyond the capacity of ordinary workhouse inmates.
It seemed that from the day that Nigel burst into the house at Magdeburg Pastor Rad had conceived a violent jealousy in regard to Elspeth, to whom previously he had paid such attentions as indicated a project of marriage.
The project has been deferred by the war, but the living princess, with pleading in her tones and promises in her eyes, should outweigh all the bribes of Richelieu.
The Elector Maximilian has put forward a project of marriage.
He has come to me for advice, and I grieve to say, has formed a project of placing himself right again as regards money by offering marriage to the daughter of a retail tradesman.
Even this in him is spleen--his contempt of his contemporaries makes him turn back to the lustrous past, or project himself forward to the dim future!
His mind receives and treasures up every thing brought to it by tradition or custom--it does not project itself beyond this into the world unknown, but mechanically shrinks back as from the edge of a prejudice.
