His fate has been recorded by so many pens, that I need not employ mine to swell the list, and himself either lauded or censured, according as the prejudices of the writers leaned to the side of Napoleon or the Allies.
Arranged in Four Eras, with Selections from Female Writers of each Era.
Other and later writers than Pietrowski hint at such a mystery; but the tale is one of which men would rather whisper in corners than prate in books.
The Jesuit writers lay the blame of their expulsion on the Bible Societies.
Next year he was one of the keenest of the company of young writers whose genius and lively audacity established the success of "Blackwood's Magazine.
This form of expression is however common in England both among writers and speakers.
So prevalent is this among us that in a very good English grammar recently published (written by an Irishman) speakers and writers are warned against it.
Besides these there were a number of short articles by various writers published in Irish newspapers within the last twenty years or so, nearly all of them lists of dialectical words used in the North of Ireland.
They never say praste for priest, belave for believe, indade for indeed, or kape for keep, as some ignorant writers set down.
These four writersalmost exhaust the dialect of the South of Ireland.
The works of Irish writers of novels, stories, and essays depicting Irish peasant life in which the people are made to speak in dialect.
John Moultrie, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Walter Blunt, and Chauncy Hare Townshend were also among the writersfor its papers, who helped to make it of exceptional excellence.
Among other writers who contributed to the first volume of the Miscellany were Arthur Henry Hallam and Doyle, also G.
Critical Review was two guineas a sheet, but that some of thewriters in The Monthly Review received four guineas a sheet.
The language would have been of little use, as there is no history existing in that tongue to balance the partial accounts which the Roman writers have left us.
One instance, I find, has circulated both in conversation and in print; that when he would not allow the Scotch writers to have merit, the late Dr.
This, and a thousand other such attempts, are totally unlike the original, which the writers imagined they were turning into ridicule.
It is not so just between the Greek dramatick writers and Shakspeare.
All infidel writers drop into oblivion, when personal connections and the floridness of novelty are gone; though now and then a foolish fellow, who thinks he can be witty upon them, may bring them again into notice.
Jeremy Collier's attack on the play-writers Johnson describes in his Life of Congreve (Works, viii.
The General said he was busy reading the writersof the middle age.
Lord Jeffrey says that the writers in the Edinburgh Review were at first paid ten guineas a sheet.
Badcock was one of thewriters in the Monthly Review.
Griffis, and others, have been of immense value to me, and in addition I very warmly thank all those writers I have left unnamed, through want of space, whose works have assisted me in the preparation of this volume.
It was more convenient for the old Japanese writers to imagine the coming into being of creation in terms not very remote from their own manner of birth.
It is impossible to enumerate all the writerswho have assisted me in preparing this volume.
In those dark ages, writers even ventured to describe the method of imitating the composition of such terrific monsters!
Novel-writers and others have so much abused descriptions of sunrise, on mountains and on the ocean, that I shall say little about this one, although it is not a common thing to see the horizon on fire below the clouds.
He is reckoned one of the earliest writers on the art of rhetoric, and for that reason, Plato called his elegant dialogue on that subject after his name.
Great writers should be our companions if we would learn to write greatly; but no familiarity with their manner will supply the place of native endowment.
On the contrary, as imitators, they imitate everything which great writers have shown to be sources of interest.
Writers have seldom any steadfast conviction that it is of primary necessity for them to deliver tidings about what they themselves have seen and felt.
If any one should object that this is a truism, the answer is ready: Writers disregard its truth, as traders disregard the truism of honesty being the best policy.
Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.
Your restrictions would reduce two-thirds of our writersto silence!
But the ranks would be less crowded with incompetent writers if men of real ability were not so often misdirected in their aims.
The principal writers of the article were themselves included in the caricature.
The Edinburgh Review has profited much by the pains which the Opposition party have taken to possess the writers of all the information they could give them on public matters.
These were all written by Mr. Murray himself; but, as the series proceeded, it was necessary to call in the aid of other writers and travellers.
Yet disappointments of this kind in no way embittered his temper, or affected the liberality with which he treated writers like Washington Irving, of whose powers he had himself once formed a high conception.
Gross is one of the latest writers who insists especially on the passage from democracy to oligarchy.
The loaf was changed in weight not in price with the price of corn; the lowest rate conceived by ancient writers was 12d.
Writers on this period have too readily assumed that the Church, by the law of its being, must always cry "no compromise!
People at home wouldn't believe it, and later on a lot more won't believe it, when the writers come to write about it.
New England has the writers and when this war is ended victoriously they'll give the credit of all the fighting to New England.
You wait till the big writers begin to tell about Chickamauga and Gettysburg and Shiloh," said one.
For though many Writers have much enlarged hereon, yet is there not any ocular describer, or such as presumeth to confirm it upon aspection.
For Clocks or Automatous organs, whereby we now distinguish of time, have found no mention in any ancientWriters but are of late invention, as Pancirollus observeth.
These articles deal with some historical books which interested him, but are chiefly concerned with French and English writers from Hooker to Paley and from Pascal to De Maistre, who dealt with his favourite philosophical problems.
Fitzjames was one of the writers to whom Mr. Smith applied at an early stage of the preparatory arrangements.
The writers were for the most part energetic young men, with the proper confidence in their own infallibility, and represented faithfully enough the main current of the cultivated thought of their day.
Boundless luxury,' he thought, 'and thirst for excitement, have raised a set of writers who show a strong sympathy for all that is most opposite to the very foundations of English life.
A nervous and retiring temper prevented him from achieving any great professional success, but he was one of the most distinguishedwriters of his time upon legal subjects.
To the Eton time my brother also refers a passionate contempt for the 'sentimental and comic' writers then popular.
Some writers of deserved repute place it in the winter of A.
We are told by other writers how he reclaimed a robber, how he played with a tame partridge, how when too old to preach he was carried into church and would repeat again and again, "Little children, love one another.
Some writers have therefore supposed that it was written by the presbyter named John, who lived at Ephesus about the close of the apostolic age.
It is asserted by such writersas Martineau, Sabatier, and Schmiedel, that the state of the Church and the ministry in Acts betrays the fact that the author did not write in the apostolic age.
The {196} combined evidence of these writers forms a very substantial argument.
Writers repeat what has been said by other writers when their words appear to them to be the best possible words for enforcing a particular lesson.
Justin Martyr lived in Rome, and if the references in Justin Martyr and otherwriters before Hippolytus be considered doubtful, Hippolytus is a Roman witness of the first importance.
Among Syrian writers we find two distinct tendencies.
There is not the least reason for regarding these accounts as contradictory, but there is reason for inquiring why the different writers selected different appearances.
Both writers regard the Law as divine in origin, and both regard it as insufficient and rudimentary (vii.
On the other hand, some modern writers have assigned part or the whole of the book to the time of Nero (54-68), or a little later.
The assumption of some sceptical writers that an apostle must have been too unintelligent to enrich his vocabulary, scarcely deserves serious examination.
Modern writers have too readily adopted the habit of labelling certain expressions and doctrines as Pauline and assuming that St. Paul originated them.
The force of this argument has been weakened by the general admission of non-Christian writers that the differences of opinion between the two apostles were grossly exaggerated by the critics of fifty years ago.
This is not, of course, to say that the drama was in any way incapable of a regeneration similar in kind to that of which I am now speaking with regard to the novel.
But here at least is a new light shed on the Walden episode.
Great writers are struck with something in nature or society, with which they become pregnant and longing; they are possessed with an idea, and cannot be at peace until they have put it outside of them in some distinct embodiment.
When writers inveigh against respectability, in the present degraded meaning of the word, they are usually suspected of a taste for clay pipes and beer cellars; and their performances are thought to hail from the OWL'S NEST of the comedy.
Easy writers are those who, like Walter Scott, choose to remain contented with a less degree of perfection than is legitimately within the compass of their powers.
So with all writers who insist on forcing some significance from all that comes before them; and the writer of short studies is bound, by the necessity of the case, to write entirely in that spirit.
One of Miss Corkran's charming books for girls, narrated in that simple and picturesque style which marks the authoress as one of the first among writers for young people.
Among all the modern writers we believe Miss Yonge first, not in genius, but in this, that she employs her great abilities for a high and noble purpose.
We know of few modern writers whose works may be so safely commended as hers.
One of Mrs. Meade's charming books for girls, narrated in that simple and picturesque style which marks the authoress as one of the first amongwriters for young people.
Called to action by this disaster, James collected on the Burghmuir, to the south of Edinburgh, such an army as, say the writers of the time, never gathered round a king of Scotland.
In his own day he was the object of the most enthusiastic praises, and has been lauded in the most vivid terms bywriters of every period since.
But far greater as prose writers of the latter portion of this period stand forth Sir Philip Sidney and the "judicious Hooker.
Before him, however, a number of dramatic writers had appeared; but the greater part of them overlived the termination of Elizabeth's reign, or their works began after that period to take their due rank.
Of these dramatic writers some may be noted in passing.
He has been pronounced by writers of this age as a good but not a great man.
Nor could the Dane-gelt give evidence in the case, the imperfect accounts to be drawn on the subject from our ancient writers being too vague and uncertain.
Among the rising writers was also Sir Walter Raleigh; but his literary reputation belongs rather to the age that was coming.
The best-known of these log-writers is Charles Clerke.
All these writers agree on one point: the colony had fallen from grace under the military administration.
Robinson, is an invaluable book to the student of naval history, and, notwithstanding plenty of book authorities and ten years' study of the subject, the present writers are compelled to draw upon Commander Robinson for many details.
Our references to this matter have been entirely to [Sidenote: 1829] the minutes of the court-martial and to writers who wrote long enough ago to have had a personal knowledge of the subject or acquaintance with actors in the events.
Both these writers describe things they knew, and relate stories told to them by men who had come out in the first fleet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "writers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
