Mr. Lloyd George had had the education and training of a Welsh solicitor; he entered politics early, and in the course of a brilliant parliamentary career he had had few later opportunities for reading and thought.
With this increase in the facility of reading, the reading public grew.
Wells, Miss Rebecca West, and Mr. George Whale have all to be thanked for help, either by reading parts of the MS.
Reading and writing were not yet for the likes of him.
These string bundles were called quipus, but though quipus are still to be found in collections, the art of reading them is altogether lost.
But, indeed, they were for long the only writing class, the only reading public, the only learned and the only thinkers; they were all the professional classes of the time.
This is strange enough, for both observation and experience teach us that the difficulty lies in reading the shorthand after it is written.
Its reading will be an epoch-making event in many a life.
When she had finished reading the notes she laid down the book and smiled at me.
I had almost forgotten my surroundings when a noise sounded on the veranda, a noise that made me stop reading to listen.
Now, word by word, it returned to me as I built the heads that were to startle our readingpublic in the morning.
During the days she studied the suffrage question, reading and rereading the books we had brought with us, and asking as many questions as an eager and precocious child.
By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelvemonth a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.
But there are many works well worth reading at the Park; and there are others of more modern production which I know I can borrow of Colonel Brandon.
To see her half kneeling in the moonlight affected him like reading poetry; and as she washed off the traces of the tears he had made her shed, it seemed to him as if their spiritual friendship were being consecrated by some mystic baptism.
The suspicion was strengthened by the reading of a dime novel which his mistress’s brother, the stage-driver, had left lying about.
Sometimes they found the ladies sitting reading on the top of the cliff, which was furzy, with a road-side border of hemlock and dandelions and blue orchids, amid which their dainty parasols showed from afar like gigantic tropical flowers.
Matt had a rough time, though the reading of the Arabian Nights made the voyage enchanted.
The complacent Academician irritated him; he was tired of reading of his marble halls, the vassals and serfs at his side, his garden parties, his Belgravian palace erected on the ruins of a forgotten bankruptcy.
The austere Grainger, with a cigarette in his mouth, was reading a yellowish paper embellished with comic cuts.
He had just been reading about the significance of Leonardo’s backgrounds in some rotten book on the Renaissance.
He tried to whip up his sense of romance, to feel what he felt in reading love-poetry, to fancy that he was sitting with a pensive princess in a cedar grove under a crescent moon.
And to look at life from the outside was childish--it was like readingparagraphs about people in the newspapers.
But her imagination lacked the materials to construct a vision of the whirlpool which had sucked him away from her; her reading was limited to a weekly newspaper in which his name seldom appeared.
I rememberreading once a paper by the late Professor Galton on the possibility of communication between the planets.
But no one reading the story of it here will sympathise fully, because from my barren narrative it will be impossible to gather the strength of my conviction that this astonishing substance was positively going to be made.
In an armchair behind the hotel counter sat a spare old man placidly chewing tobacco and reading the "Weekly Recorder.
Robert," said the teacher of one of the lower classes during the progress of a reading exercise, "please read the first sentence.
Andrew Lang once wrote to Israel Zangwill to ask him to take part in an author's reading for the benefit of a charity, and received in reply the following laconic message: "If A.
Ya-a-as," said Silas, still chewing and reading his paper.
Alas that there should be fashions in jokes as well as in hats, for much of his book that we know must have been humorous reading to his contemporaries, leaves us, of the present generation in America, indifferent.
Brewer postoffice, and her table was well supplied with good reading matter.
But already tired of reading of perfection I never saw, or heard tell of except in story, my heroes and heroines were to be only common, every-day people, with common names and features.
Along the north are the soldiers' buildings; eating, sleeping, and reading rooms; also separate drinking and billiard rooms for the officers and privates.
A little later the great debate over American rights burst forth and became with Marshall, as with so many promising lads of the time, the decisive factor in determining his intellectual bent, and he now began reading Blackstone.
Cicero deserves to be studied still more for his talents than for the improvement in language to be derived from reading him.
On the day following the reading of Marshall's opinion, the prosecution, unable to produce two witnesses who had actually SEEN Burr procure the assemblage on the island, abandoned the case to the jury.
The King and Queen and Madame Elizabeth spend their time in reading or teaching the children.
A few evenings after June twentieth, he went to the Rue Clery, ascended to a room over the tobacconist's shop, and found Bonaparte reading by the light of a single candle.
In December, 1875, Mr. Motley consulted me for trouble of vision in readingor walking, from sensations like those produced by flakes of falling snow coming between him and the objects he was looking at.
Yes,' said Motley, 'I am reading historically, and have come to the novels of the nineteenth century.
He was fond of having the boys read to him from such authors as Channing and Irving, and criticised their way of reading with discriminating judgment and taste.
I got hold of the Bibliotheca Monastica, containing a copious account of Anglo-Norman authors, with notices of their works, and set seriously to reading every one of them.
In this remote region I have not the chance of reading it as often as I should like, but from the specimens which I have seen I am quite sure it deserves its wide circulation.
It is, however, not without its amusement in a mouldy sort of way, this reading of dead letters.
A serial publication, the contents of which are purely original and of such remarkable merit, is a novelty in our country, and I am delighted to find that it has already taken so prominent a position before the reading world.
It happened to me once to spend a long summer afternoon under a linden-tree, reading "Middlemarch.
He found the Doctor reading in his arm-chair at a window.
For, going to the door of the Doctor's room and looking in, he perceived that the shoemaker's bench and tools were put aside again, and that the Doctor himself sat reading at the window.
The House itself, magnificentlyreading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the Stryver head had been butted into its responsible waistcoat.
He remained, therefore, in his seat near the window, reading and writing, and expressing in as many pleasant and natural ways as he could think of, that it was a free place.
A terrible sound arose when thereading of this document was done.
In some hospitals there is quite a plenty of reading matter; but others, where it is needed, I supply.
In Washington, in camp and everywhere, I was in the habit of reading to the men.
Will the brushing of the hair of the middle-aged neighbour by machinery prevent the further reading of the gigantic journal of the prosperous newspaper proprietor?
The middle-aged neighbour will say nothing, but will continue the attempted reading of the gigantic journal of the prosperous newspaper proprietor.
No man is more inclined to murder his nephews, or stifle his wife, after reading "Richard the Third" or "Othello.
Whatever you are, avoid the fault of most reading men: in a word, don't be a prig!
It is thought so; and reading for College, I hear.
And when Mr. Norreys had bought the Horace, and given an address where to send it, Harley asked the shopman if he knew the young man who had been reading Boethius.
The replies bore the address of a village near London; and stated that the writer was now reading with a tutor preparatory to entrance to Oxford, and could not, therefore, accept the invitation extended to him.
Very pretty reading all this to a man like me, Lenny, who can admire and smile at it.
Mrs. Avenel was seated on her sofa a la renaissance, with one of her children at her feet, who was employed in reading a new Annual in crimson silk binding.
He had taken infinite pains with her, guiding her reading and her enjoyment of pictures in the paths of good taste.
Paula, bending over that furry faun-like head, reading off the same score with him, responding to the same emotions from the music.
But Mary by the second or third repetition began reading an important significance into it.
If you began reading a story about a beautiful young opera singer who left her husband to go back on the stage again and sing an opera by a musical genius she'd discovered, wouldn't you expect them to fall in love with each other?
The letter attracted great attention on the Continent; it fills not much more than a hundred pages, and they are a hundred pages which well deserve reading and re-reading.
If this is true, what thousands and thousands of boys have read and are reading Mr. Alger's books!
The teacher listened to the reading of our compositions, and when they were all over he simply said: "Some of you will make your living by writing one of these days.
I was reading at that time one of Mayne Reid's works which I had drawn from the library, and I pondered upon it as much as I did upon what the teacher said to me.
But, to return to the women of America, there was one of them came out to our camp not long ago, my boy, with six Saratoga trunks full of moral reading for our troops.
I to my fellow passenger, who was the conductor, and was reading the Tribune, and was swearing to himself.
As the solid Boston man finished reading this useful poem, he looked impressively at me, and says he: "There's domestic eloquence for you!
Though it was rejected by the Committee, it can never lose its value as a piece of excellent reading for children.
After readingthis able and brilliant document, my boy, I told Villiam that I thought he had made a very good point about negroes always being "sailable articles," and he said that was diplomacy.
Smith on the evidences of Christianity which had led him to change his views about the Christian religion; that he would like to get that work to finish the reading of it, and also to make the acquaintance of Dr.
Smith became pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this city, Mr. Lincoln said to me, 'I have been reading a work of Dr.
It assures the readingpublic that the life of Mr. Lincoln will be truly written.
To a friend he said: "I never tire of reading Paine" (Statement of James Tuttle).
The Edwards letter reports Lincoln as saying: "I have been reading a work of Dr.
We hear of him as reading Paine, Voltaire, and Theodore Parker, but nothing on the other side.
The Boston Globe, in a recent issue, says: "The pretty little story about the picture of President Lincoln and his son Tad reading the Bible is now corrected for the one-hundredth time.
The last Sunday of his life was spent, not in studying the Scriptures, but in reading his beloved Shakespere.
His work was written and published immediately after the awful tragedy, when almost the entire reading public was deeply interested in everything that pertained to Lincoln's life.
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