The historian and biographer by publishing virtually contract to present their readers with a digested, reasoned whole; the best expression, full yet balanced, that they can give of the truth concerning a period, or a man.
I shall not attempt to furbish up any intellectual entertainment for readers from the excessively dry bones of my subsequent blockading, especially off the mouth of the Sabine.
Perhaps readers who have not visited the East may not know that such modified sea-serpents are to be seen there, as is a smaller variety in the Strait of Malacca.
Talking of such sensations, and the idle abandon of a whole gale of wind after the ship is secured, I wonder how many of my readerswill have seen the following ancient song.
Many of my readers doubtless will recall the adventures of Mr. Midshipman Easy, when in charge of the transport from Tetuan with bullocks for the fleet off Toulon.
The point of view apparently possessed a novelty, which produced upon readerssomething of the effect of a surprise.
Zeal, the readers of Midshipman Easy will remember, is the naval universal solvent.
I shall therefore spare myself and my possible readers the poor portrayal of that which has been already and better described.
I have been bored so often by descriptions of scenery, that I am warned to put here a sharp check on my memory, lest it run away with me, and my readers seek escape by jumping off.
I have dwelt perhaps too long upon the manners and habits of these people; I cannot help, however, giving my readers a proof of the knowledge which the higher classes among them really possess.
Many readers are probably unaware of the process employed by the traders to conceal their cargo, their arms, and even their provisions.
I will here submit to my readers a letter directed to Mr. Courtenay in 1842, by a superior officer of the United States artillery.
If my English readers only knew what a sweet, pretty little thing is a Monterey girl, they would all pack up their wardrobes to go there and get married.
Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
Here again good picture-books are as essential as, even more essential than, readers in the Transition Class.
It is elsewhere enlivened, if also defaced, by the earliest examples of the cynical criticisms of character that make most readers rejoice in having escaped the author's observation.
He is never careful enough to keep before his readers what he must himself have dimly perceived, that victory by right belongs not to the force of will alone, apart from clear and just conceptions of worthy ends.
Carlyle's grotesque is a mode of his golden silence, a sort of Socratic irony, in the indulgence of which he laughs at his readers and at himself.
Mazzini writes, "He weaves and unweaves his web like Penelope, preaches by turns life and nothingness, and wearies out the patience of his readers by continually carrying them from heaven to hell.
From Rügen he went quickly south by Stettin to Berlin, then to Cüstrin to survey the field of Zorndorf, with what memorable result readers of Friedrich know.
Consequently his readers confess that he has never forgot the Horatian maxim-- Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi.
His position as the foremost prose writer of his day was as firmly established in Germany, where his book was at once translated and read by all readers of history, as in England.
The mass of readers require precisely what has been contemptuously referred to as the "Romance of History," provided it leaves with them an accurate impression, as well as an inspiring interest.
The same readers are equally familiar with the career of Joe Dawson, fleet engineer of the Club.
Readers of the preceding volumes of this series are already well acquainted with bright, energetic, loyal and capable Tom Halstead, who, from the start, had held the post of fleet captain of the Motor Boat Club.
It is probably unnecessary to give any advice to the American citizens among our readers in regard to their conduct in this grave time.
But there are thousands upon thousands of ourreaders who are not citizens, and to them a serious word of advice shall now be addressed.
Although this letter may be a little apocryphal, we publish it, to show our readers how the Old Man of the Mountain was then spoken of.
The sketch we have traced of it may have been sometimes serviceable in making our readers acquainted with the spirit and the character of the wars against the infidels; and is this view our labour has not been useless.
The Latins likewise, as our readersmay remember, after the taking of Constantinople, destroyed most of the monuments raised by the genius of sculpture, and converted the masterpieces of Phidias and Praxiteles into pieces of coin.
We have given it exactly as it stands, that our readers may the more plainly perceive the nature of these documents.
Our readers cannot have forgotten the brilliant actions of William de Clement.
Michaud has given a very long account of the openings of the troncs, of which we only think it necessary to offer our readers a small portion, to show them the nature of the thing.
Our readers who look back to the taking of Jerusalem or Ptolemaïs, will at once see how weak is the claim of the Christians to a superiority over their adversaries in mercy.
After the account of each crusade, our readers will remember that, in a short summary, we have pointed out the immediate results of it.
Those readers who know Lamb as a poet only by his verses, few in number, but of exquisite beauty, will be surprised at discovering the range of his poetic power.
Michaud, that we are certain our readers will willingly dispense with them.
In the course of this chapter, our readers must have observed much reflection that is not deep, and some passages that are contradictory of others; but all has one great merit—it is extremely suggestive.
Lest our scholastic readers should be incensed at this cynical estimate of their value we hasten to inform them that this "School-Master" is a pigeon and not a pedagogue.
Can any of your readers inform me on what authority Sir George Buc, the poet, and Master of the Revels in the reign of James I.
Can any of your readers inform me where the fullest account may be found of the state of preaching in England prior to the Reformation?
Can any of your readers inform me whether tobacco is indigenous to any part of Asia?
Its chief fault is that it is all too short--a fault which biographers rarely allow their readers to complain of.
For some time English readers had reason to complain that there was no good and popular book dealing with the great Charles, for Gibbon's chapter is admittedly not among the best parts of his history.
Our readers will remember this occasion, as it was Prince George's first public function.
While our third volume was in the course of serial issue, it was suggested that our readers should combine in some practical work of war charity.
Every day newspaper readers at home expected to hear that the forts at the Narrows had been silenced, and that the guns of the fleet were within range of Constantinople.
Queen Elizabeth is patron of the Belgian Field Hospital, to which the readers and friends of The Children's Story of the War have presented a motor ambulance.
Newspaper readersin this country believed that before long the Russian legions would be pouring down on the Hungarian plain, and that when the great granary of the Central Powers was invaded the end of the war would be in sight.
Our readerswill be gratified to see this photograph of the ambulance which they and their friends have presented to the Belgian Field Hospital.
From documents open to the public, we shall merely glean such notices of her life and character as shall induce in our readers a desire to know those details of her personal history which will doubtless be found in her biography.
It will convince our readers that if the three whose lives we have sketched, have been among the first of women, they were united to one who knew and appreciated their excellence, and who was worthy to share their affection.
With regard to the first Mrs. Judson, it has been thought that a simple narrative of her life, unencumbered with details of the history of the mission, would be more attractive to youthfulreaders than the excellent biography by Mr. Knowles.
In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.
But I have to make sure that they are intelligible to readers of a generation later than that for which they were written.
Except for this little incident, of which all my readers have probably experienced the like in these days of travel, the story I am now to tell would have seemed to me essentially improbable.
Readers should understand that these two points, both unknown to the young people, are some six miles asunder, the original notary's office being about half-way between them.
Present day readers are less ready for the over-stress of phonetic spelling than in the days of local color.
It seems to me that readers are repelled by pages sprinkled with misspellings, commas and apostrophes.
Our readers will be glad to know where they can find native fun that has something better in it than mere patois.
The readers of the "Atlantic" have already had a taste of the quality of both, and, we hope, will often have the same pleasure again.
For readers of the "Atlantic," this little volume will need no further commendation than the mere statement that nearly a quarter of it is made up of hitherto unpublished material.
But here, perhaps, some of my younger Readersmay ask how a woman in Flatland can make herself invisible.
But I am insulting the intelligence of my Readers by accumulating details which must be patent to every one who enjoys the advantages of a Residence in Spaceland.
To my readers in Spaceland the condition of our Women may seem truly deplorable, and so indeed it is.
At this point I think I hear some of my better educatedreaders exclaim, "How could you in Flatland know anything about angles and degrees, or minutes?
If my Readers have followed me with any attention up to this point, they will not be surprised to hear that life is somewhat dull in Flatland.
Those of my readers who recall the extracts I gave above from the Legislative code concerning Women, will readily perceive that the process of introduction by contact requires some care and discretion.
Am I going too fast to carry myReaders with me to these obvious conclusions?
But by some of my Readers the possibility of the identical appearance of Priests and Women, under the new Legislation, may not be recognized; if so, a word or two will make it obvious.
I think there are few devout readers of the Bible to whom these questions are not frequently suggested.
It supplies just the information which many readers have been longing for, but unable to find.
O that none of my dear readers might admire me, and be astonished at my faith, and think of me as if I were beyond unbelief!
If any of the Christian readers are in the habit of circulating tracts, and yet have never seen fruit, may I suggest to them the following hints for their prayerful consideration.
One or the other of my readers may be ready to exclaim, six hundred and ninety-seven pounds eleven shillings fivepence!
The sentence with which I finished the last chapter appears to me essential, because what I am now about to describe may seem to many readers more like the dreams of fancy than the details of sober fact.
Some of my younger readers may not perhaps know that by analysis is meant the reduction of compound things to their elements--the turning of things, as it were, inside out and tearing them to pieces.
The papers are able to inform their readers that Paulsberg is on a trip to Honefos.
Knut Hamsun began life in one of the deep Norwegian valleys familiar to English readers through Björnson's earlier stories.
I think the readers of your paper will be glad to know that so much has been done for dear little Tommy, and that they will all wish to share in the pleasure of helping him.
Chapter XXII I trust that my readers have not concluded from the preceding chapter on books that reading is my only pleasure; my pleasures and amusements are many and varied.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "readers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
