I quote this to show it was not the All-for-Irelanders alone who saw that the Board of Erin was the real stumbling-block in the way of a national settlement.
During a political campaign in Mayo in 1910 I had some delightful conversations with Canon Hannay in my hotel at Westport, and his views expressed in the volume from which I quote are only a development of those which he then outlined.
It may be well when dealing with Parnell's position in Irish history to quote the considered opinion of an independent writer of neutral nationality.
I have not the book by me, and cannot quote the words.
I quote them, not as informants of something I did not already know, but as witnesses to the fact of the universality of the same superstitious ideas all over Africa.
I quote in this connection the following from a West African newspaper: "After the ceremony an elderly man or woman who has been a twin is called upon to split the kola nuts, in order to find out whether the children will live or die.
In order to give a picture of our life as it was at this time, I will quote a day from my diary.
I shall quote here what I wrote about this in my diary on the 13th: "Well, now we have experienced the first hurricane on the Fram.
To quote any of the songs in this operetta would be very unfair to Dickens.
I will quote two passages by way of illustrating the Poet's different styles as seen in this play.
I can quote but a part of them: "How like a Winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
I will therefore quote a few of his most characteristic specimens, as this seems the fairest way for bringing out the unequalled virtue of Shakespeare's poetry in this kind.
I have often heard people quote this approvingly, as if they thought the better of Satan for thus declaring himself independent of God.
As the passage is curious in itself, and as it aptly illustrates the Poet's method of appropriating from others, I will quote it: "Gon.
I the rather quote this latter, because of its marked resemblance to the advice Polonius gives his son in Hamlet.
In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged to this merry parliament of genius, I must quote from Dr.
But those words coming from Satan are a high stroke of dramatic fitness; and when people quote them with approval, this may be an argument of intellectual impiety in them, but not of Milton's agreement with them in opinion.
I must quote a brief passage from their interview: "Faust.
We will not be so rude as to quote a certain remark about morality which one Mr. Charles Surface made to Mr. Joseph Surface.
We will, therefore, quote some considerations touching the rightfulness of inquiry.
Quote others as Grotius did: not as judges from whose decision there is no appeal, but as witnesses whose conspiring testimony confirms the view taken.
I quote here the end of the French farce in order to give the "wax" episode in full.
To quote but a few of them--he abolished the Salle de Police for non-commissioned officers, replacing it by confinement to the room.
I could quote scores of similar instances, but it is not my object to write the history of the Madagascar campaign.
Let us quote once more from the "Service Interieur.
To quote but a single instance: A few years ago one of these battalions was being marched from Biskra to Tuggurt in Southern Algeria.
King Sverre, though he could quote poetry to good effect when he liked, was mainly practical in his ideas.
In order to convey fully the ideas with which his experience had impressed him on this subject, it will be necessary to quote a passage of some length from his very interesting Notes on the State of Virginia, p.
Hence the New Testament writers quote from the LXX.
It was only from oral teaching that these Asian Christians knew of those lessons which we now can quote as the earliest messages to the Church of Christ.
In Isaak Walton, to quote Leslie Stephen, "a happy combination of circumstances has provided us with a true country idyl, fresh and racy from the soil, not consciously constructed by the most skillful artistic hand.
He lives over-night, to quote his own words, "on the end of a telephone wire.
Facts, toquote Mr. Burroughs again, are the flora upon which the nature-writer lives.
Since the speeches delivered on that occasion were of such significance and are sure to prove of great international importance in the near future, we propose to quote at least the chief passages from them.
Reichsrat Interpellations To complete the picture of Austrian terrorism, we will quote some of the interpellations addressed to the Austrian Government by Czech deputies in the summer of 1917.
The Polish delegates laid before the congress a special memorandum of their own from which we quote the following: "The Polish question admits of no cut-and-dried solution and of no compromise.
We will quote only a few passages from an article written by deputy RasÃn which read as follows: "The war has brought our problem home not only to us but to the whole world.
This chapter would not be complete if we did not quote the subsequent declarations of the United States of America and Japan, practically endorsing the British declaration.
In conjunction with this declaration we may quote two other Czech Socialists showing the opinion of the Czechs on the Russian Revolution.
But for our purpose it will be sufficient to quote only some more admissions of the Germans and Magyars themselves.
It may be worth while here to quote the words of so distinguished a scholar as Professor Zahn, of Erlangen.
Come to think of it, Citibank willquote you ten-year forwards.
Let him go to Alsen, as he went to Naples,[16] and quote Virgil to the Prussian army.
I have reached a point now when I should like to quote Dante.
But at this point we may quote from the Memoirs of Lady Julia Babington:-- Mrs. Parflete's personal appearance caused an immediate furore.
Quote marks at the beginning of successive lines have been changed to the modern convention of one opening double quote and one ending double quote at the end of the quoted text.
If I quote the words of any writer, the meaning of the quotation must be gathered from the works of that writer; and more especially if I quote for a similar purpose, and profess myself one of his disciples and admirers.
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