How To Use Endeavour In A Sentence
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The plaque tells us the sculpture is ‘a symbol of universal human endeavour.’
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Building cardboard cut-outs into flesh-and-blood characters is a worthy endeavour, but Joe as the ageing Lothario and KC as the young stud doesn't do it.
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We endeavour to keep all our vehicles as secure as possible.
The Sun
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In the first horror occasioned by her father's distress from the bills of her brother, she wrote a supplicating letter to Mrs. Mittin, to intreat she would endeavour to quiet her creditors till she could arrange something for their payment.
Camilla
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Hai!” switching the camel, and fruitlessly endeavouring to fustigate Mas’ud’s nephew, who resolutely slept upon the water-bags.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Yet, as always, economics remains an exercise in hindsight, and managing the ups and downs of economic cycles a task beyond human endeavour.
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In this care study I have endeavoured to show some aspects of the unique role of the nurse described by Salvage.
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He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous, -- but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes.
Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the
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The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia.
A Sicilian Romance
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She implored me -- she used the word 'implore' -- to fly from her, to leave her to her fate, to endeavour to find happiness with some one else.
Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1
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The only difference between audacity and recklessness is whether or not you win, and in this case a clever Union officer tricked Lee into making an audacious move that ultimately became a reckless endeavour.
A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity
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The limited space made our joyful embrace a somewhat gymnastic endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mission for the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour is essentially over.
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` ` Na, Laird, '' Jeanie replied, endeavouring as much as she could to express herself with composure, notwithstanding she still trembled, ` ` I canna gang in --- I have a lang day's darg afore me --- I maun be twenty mile o 'gate the night yet, if feet will carry me.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Where you sleep in between your climbing endeavours is of critical importance.
Times, Sunday Times
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In all humanities disciplines the computer is used in an endeavour to replace intuition with quantification.
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Instead he was worried that people with different tastes to his were diluting the purity of the artistic endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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He expressed his appreciation of everyone involved in nominating him for the peace award in recognition of his endeavours to bring about the Agreement.
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What this tells us is that morality is not so much an individual endeavour as a collective one.
Times, Sunday Times
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For these food fanatics, eating well is a holy endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
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Yet, as always, economics remains an exercise in hindsight, and managing the ups and downs of economic cycles a task beyond human endeavour.
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Engineers are endeavouring to locate the source of the problem.
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They were proud of what they tried to do because, you know, there was a good-heartedness behind all these endeavours, and they were glad to be able to talk about it, and they all did.
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My Friends endeavoured to rally me out of this what they called sulky mood; I replied that I could not help it, that I should never again be happy till it was discovered who it was that took my bed-fellow's Money; and that its being lost while I was his bed fellow, certainly threw a sort of suspicion on me, that I could not get over, and to labour under which rendered me completely miserable.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
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Ten years rushed now upon me with dusty, vibrating, unresting wings; years of bustle, action, unslacked endeavour; years in which
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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When indisposition, therefore, confined her to the limits of her own apartment, our heroine adopted the same mode of conduct observed at the Hermitage, during Mrs. Bertram’s illness: — she sung, she read, she assisted Mrs. Ross in any piece of fine needle-work which happened to be in hands at the time; and, in short, endeavoured to soften the painful or tedious moments of distress by every possible means best calculated for the purpose.
Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
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And as for those Greek words anastenai and egei'rein, they endeavour to shew, by other like places of scripture, that they signify no more than the bare suscitation, raising, or giving being to a thing, without its having fallen or perished before.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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Politicians and lawyers will achieve success in their endeavours.
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On Monday, December 2, the Shuttle Endeavour, and ISS, had undocked and separated that afternoon.
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Lavinia and Camilla, perfectly relieved now from all fears for their brother, repaired to the study of their father, anxious to endeavour to chear him, and to accelerate a meeting and reconciliation for Lionel; but they found him desirous to be alone, though kindly, and unsolicited, he promised to admit his son before dinner.
Camilla
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It is by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more together than we achieve alone.
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precisian" zealots held, by the governor-general's permission and under his protection, a synod at Dort, June, 1586, and endeavoured to organise the Reformed Church in accordance with their strict principles of exclusiveness.
History of Holland
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And the accounts of the scientific endeavours cannot fail to impress.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The lack of pictures lends gravitas to the endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mission for the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour is essentially over.
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[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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His father was horrified by his son's literary endeavours.
Times, Sunday Times
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In recognition for her endeavours on behalf of women, she was granted a civil list pension of ￡75 a year in 1913.
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I understand that you are endeavouring to construct your moulds to achieve tighter tolerances.
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If you wish to telephone us, we will endeavour to confirm your booking immediately.
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But, as he pressed upon her with a violence, of which the object could not be mistaken, and endeavoured to secure her right hand, she exclaimed, “Take it then, with a wanion to you!” — and struck him an almost stunning blow on the face, with the pebble which she held ready for such an extremity.
Woodstock
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We will endeavour to provide helpful advice on finding partners and submitting proposals.
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All these people, peoples and more dominate Andes; page after page of iconic and anonymous endeavour are laid over the salt-flats, volcanoes, deserts, strangling figs and pampa as Jacobs winds south through the mountains.
Andes by Michael Jacobs
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It can be the ally of artistic endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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In turn, the film's title comes to suggest a greater theme about the attempts of humanity to comprehend the apparently incomprehensible - this endeavour being the fount of science, mathematics, philosophy and, yes, art.
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While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject.
Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual endeavour.
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It can be the ally of artistic endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Contractor shall use constantly his best endeavours to prevent delay in the progress of the Works, howsoever caused, and to prevent the completion of the Works being delayed or further delayed beyond the Completion Date.
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The winning team managed to get a whopping 96 out of hundred correct answers and they won two All-Ireland tickets for their endeavours.
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And as a result of those endeavours the product then becomes a market success.
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Rhetorical purpose and the writer's intention are key elements in textual endeavour.
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It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Life of Addison, 1672-1719
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Then there is the mousetrapping of the Clintons per se, which I laid out last November: President Clinton has agreed to submit his future endeavours to strict ethics reviews by the White House counsel and the State Department's ethics office.
William Bradley: Hillary's Back! (Or Not)
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His argument goes against the whole idea of support for the arts, that being that there are some areas of endeavour that require promotion and support, regardless of their popularity.
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Finding we could not weather the reef, and that _it was too late had it been in our power to give any assistance_; and still fearing that we might be embayed or entangled by the supposed chain or patches; all therefore that remained for us to do was either by dint of carrying sail to weather the reef to the southward, (meaning the Cato's Bank,) or, if failing in that, to push to leeward and endeavour to find a passage through the _patches of reef_ to the northward.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
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_understand_, but the _endeavour_ to find God in the Bible depends on ourselves: our Lord has described it in the words _He that hath ears to hear let him hear_.
The Prayer Book Explained
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The marine and bird life that followed the boat matched that observed by the Endeavour crew.
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It would not be an exaggeration to describe him as ‘a man for all seasons’ when it comes to his thysanopteran research endeavours.
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Addressing businessmen at the Durban Country Club, Mdlalose said in a speech prepared for delivery: "These on-the-ground endeavours have resulted in more than 94000 square metres of lettable factory space being taken up, the creation of over 4680 new job opportunities and an influx of over R176 million in new monies.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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When I looked at the insular P----, and his active rod, I thought him like to Archimedes who had found his extramundane spot of ground, and, as he threw the fly, and bent his back to let it touch the water lightly, was endeavouring to fasten his lever to the base of the adjacent mountain in order to consummate his wish of raising the world; and the circumfluous R---- with his long tackle, that hissed when he cast it with the petulance of an angry switch, appeared an ocean god, who had selected a shorter route to the North Cape by the
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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But, as he pressed upon her with a violence, of which the object could not be mistaken, and endeavoured to secure her right hand, she exclaimed, "Take it then, with a wanion to you!
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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It was no accident that this was a major area of feminist endeavour.
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Continued public investment in scientific endeavour is essential for the success of UK business and industry – and, more broadly, for a productive economy, a healthy society and a sustainable world.
Science funding cuts: We won't fill the gaps, say firms and charities
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II. iii.117 (452,3) Here, lay Duncan,/His silver skin lac'd with his golden blood] Mr. Pope has endeavoured to improve one of these lines by substituting _goary blood_ for _golden blood_; but it may easily be admitted that he who could on such an occasion talk of _lacing the silyer skin_, would _lace it_ with _golden blood_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Space Shuttle Endeavour has launched on an ambitious mission to deliver a new science laboratory and robotic system to the International Space Station.
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I shall endeavour to accommodate you whenever possible.
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A joint central committee and joint congresses endeavoured to secure some co-ordination.
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But it annoyed me so much that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and I thought I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.
Wuthering Heights
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I enjoyed their crunchy crumbly texture and deep flavor very much - and was pleasantly surprised, too, for baking by instinct is usually a rather risky endeavour.
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The messengers were collected in a pallid group in the basement, discussing the affair in whispers and endeavouring to restore their nerve with about sixpenn'orth of the beverage known as 'unsweetened'.
Psmith in the City
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In endeavouring to convey to the unelect an impression of their variety and acceptableness, am I not but discharging a debt of gratitude?
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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‘he has impressed me with his effort and endeavour,’ said Hughes.
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Learning a foreign language well can be a lifelong endeavour.
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In this place, the ingenuity of the contriver and disposer of the walks had exerted itself to make the most of little space, and by screens, both of stone ornamented with rude sculpture, and hedges of living green, had endeavoured to give as much intricacy and variety as the confined limits of the garden would admit.
The Abbot
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Japan has an increasingly ambitious space programme and last month began to set up its first space laboratory, which was blasted off on the US space shuttle Endeavour.
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Taken as a whole, this endeavour can be seen as a long-term strategy for winning the peace.
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First, it is a profound betrayal of the cardinal principle of intellectual endeavour, which is freedom of speech and debate.
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The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretched fire, at which I in vain endeavoured to thaw frozen bread, and to dress crying children.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Schoolchildren from Whitby Music Centre played as the crew anchored the ship and ropes were thrown on shore to secure HM Bark Endeavour in its berth for the next two months.
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I state this so that you will recognise that when we sat down with one of those Euro 2000 wallcharts we approached our customary major tournament forecasting exercise with nothing but detached interest and honest endeavour.
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Bonaparte a kind of acerbity and bitter irony, of which he long endeavoured to discover the cause.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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The shuttle Endeavour's launch was scrubbed last Friday only hours before liftoff.
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The delay thus occasioned in my Fezzan expedition, I shall endeavour to make profitable to African geography, in another quarter.
Travels in Nubia
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Now the ‘Evening Pulpit,’ in its endeavour to make the facts of this transaction known, had placed what it called the domicile of this company in Paris, whereas it was ascertained that its official head-quarters had in truth been placed at Vienna.
The Way We Live Now
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Three days we spent in vain endeavour to find "baloo," and on the fourth we wended our toilsome way up the hill again to Gulmarg.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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NASA has released a video of the Endeavour performing the "rendez pitch maneuver" which NASA dubs a "backflip" as it arrived at the ISS for the last time.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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We endeavour to avoid the old, romantic idea of a gusher, which wastes oil and gas.
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She made a 1:5 scale replica of Captain Cook's ship,'The Endeavour '.
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Until her death we spurred one another along in our endeavours to remain stoic.
Times, Sunday Times
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The barque Endeavour (the replica of Captain James Cook's ship) arrived in July and then there was The Big Day Out, a port open day, a month or so later.
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The original Endeavour was built in Whitby in 1764 as a collier.
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Crossing the North Pole on foot was an amazing feat of human endeavour.
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From a strategic viewpoint, the principal need was to understand precisely what each public sector organization was endeavouring to achieve.
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I endeavour to specify that which has changed and, by extension, that which has not.
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Managerialst bollocks is killing all kinds of human endeavour.
What Really Matters At The Top « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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After several months of floods, gales, tantrums, and boisterous whisky parties, he returned in triumph to a London which was already agog at his endeavour.
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Charmed with the soothing tones, he endeavoured to reproduce them himself, and after cutting seven of the reeds of unequal length, he joined them together, and succeeded in producing the pipe, which he called the syrinx, in memory of his lost love.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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His predecessor in this career had "bettered" himself, or endeavoured to do so, by seeking the practice of some large town, and Lady Arabella, at a very critical time, was absolutely left with no other advice than that of
Doctor Thorne
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The ego, so dominant in all Western endeavour, is seen as an obstacle to the ancient mystics, something that has to be steadily eroded.
Zen and Learning « Tales from the Reading Room
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Lord Shaftesbury’s test (which is a part of the rake’s creed, and what I may call the whetstone of infidelity,) endeavoured to turn the sacred subject into ridicule.
Clarissa Harlowe
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The last occurred in 1882 and Cook witnessed the phenomenon in 1769 after anchoring his ship, the Endeavour, in Matavai Bay, Tahiti.
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God delivers men by means, when means are to be had, and by the interposal of their own endeavours: and therefore he that flies to the church when he should be in the field, and takes his prayer-book in his hand when he should take his sword, tempts God, and loses himself; and, according to a due estimate of things, becomes a murderer, by so patiently suffering another to be so.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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We will make every endeavour to obtain sufficient supplies.
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For the patient's sake as well as his own, he must endeavour to strike the medium between negligence and ridicule on the one hand, and too much solicitude about every trifling symptom on the other.
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The sudden crack of canvas snapping in the wind halted his endeavours.
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And to endeavour to conceive a reality which no one knows, is to assert a relative term without its correlative, which is absurd; it is to posit an ideal which is opposed to nothing actual.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
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This victory is a huge milestone for the club, as it is their first ever title in any grade, and overdue reward for the years of effort and endeavour by a dedicated group of officials and players.
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Arunx endeavoured to obtain reparation for the injury he had received; but the lucumo, by his in -
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time
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The dishes covered the gamut of culinary endeavour from Guinness-and-lamb stew to salmon with tandoori spices.
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Those technicians would endeavour to provide the particular sound or lighting effects instructed by the promoter.
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Before passing on to the subject of digestion, I may state that I endeavoured to discover, with no success, the functions of the minute octofid processes with which the leaves are studded.
Insectivorous Plants
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He said the commission would be endeavouring to reduce the number of committals before five tribunals began overseeing involuntary admissions in the middle of next year.
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Enthusiasm is a vital ingredient in all human endeavour.
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It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother.
Chapter 8
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I hope 2006 will see us busily engaged in a new endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Eusebius, who was still in towering wrath, refused to withdraw what he had said, and endeavoured to thrust his schedule of gravamina into the
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Active Endeavour is the name given to the policing of maritime trade routes as part of the global war against terrorism.
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You could, of course, write a thesis about Wodehouse but the endeavour would be like trying to preserve thistledown between sheet glass.
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They must again meet, and exert their best endeavours to settle the business amicably.
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In deeply unpropitious times, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has refreshed and fortified our sense of what can still be meant by the collective endeavour of ‘scholarship’.
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However, City of York Council is endeavouring to provide 300 new affordable homes across the city every year in a variety of innovative schemes.
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The plaque tells us the sculpture is ‘a symbol of universal human endeavour.’
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The children hear the story of this remarkable joint endeavour as experienced by these three veterans.
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We trust you will use your best endeavours to achieve the above and mitigate the effect that your delays have caused to the regular progress of the works.
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Corinth, the Corinthians having received certain intelligence by their spies that he with a numerous army in battle-rank was coming against them, were all of them, not without cause, most terribly afraid; and therefore were not neglective of their duty in doing their best endeavours to put themselves in a fit posture to resist his hostile approach and defend their own city.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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You can't fault the effort and endeavour.
The Sun
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There is a perfectly proper sense in which the lung-fish endeavoured to regain the water.
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Girls - If financially viable, endeavour to one day possess an epilator.
Important Things to Remember for a Successful Life:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers touted an experiment aboard Endeavour called the shuttle laser altimeter.
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Tour operators throughout Ireland were yesterday endeavouring to make contingency plans to cope with thousands of travellers.
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We must always endeavour to improve our work.
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They certainly looked like a side struggling to match their endeavour with quality.
The Sun
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You will find nothing but blunder and embarrassment result from any endeavour to enter into further particulars, such as "the relation of the dissepiment with respect to the valves of the capsule," etc., etc., since "in the various species of Veronica almost every kind of dehiscence may be observed" (C. under V. perfoliata, 1936, an
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
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The ultimate goal of these endeavours was to create a European identity based on common values and a common desire to develop a Europe free of wars.
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On 13th July, the Endeavour left Tahiti and headed south-westerly, charting New Zealand.
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The statesman endeavoured to show that we ought not to be surprised at this result, because _in our day the reign of theoretic science yielded place to that of applied science_.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
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It passed pro - patent legislation and invested heavily in science - led public endeavours such as space exploration.
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She endeavoured after more fame and wealth.
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I would have thought that suburbanites would be the very last to indulge in such a cockeyed fanciful endeavour.
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I have something within me which cannot bear the shock of the least indecent insinuation: in the sportability of chit-chat I have often endeavoured to conquer it, and with infinite pain have hazarded a thousand things to a dozen of the sex together, — the least of which I could not venture to a single one to gain heaven.
A sentimental journey through France and Italy
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I have endeavoured to find a case which would not be open to the above criticism -- that is, to find a character which could be considered somatogenic and which was absent in a closely allied variety.
Hormones and Heredity
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It may have often been placed on her table when Maintenon was paying the penalty of her hard-earned greatness by the painful task of endeavouring -- as she acknowledged -- to amuse a man who was no longer amusable.
The Idler in France
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Some writers spoke to some members of the public: still a relatively unaccustomed endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a bummer when talented people endeavour to do something artistically challenging, only to have the end result not live up to the promise.
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The retainer is to use all reasonable endeavours to obtain security for the overage.
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The irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the scene.
Waverley
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It is all part of the patronising, diplomatic bunkum accorded that curious species known as the caretaker who, if truth be told, is doing no more than buying the club time as they endeavour to find someone better.
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Is it strange that, defying prejudice as I have done; I should outstep the limits of custom's prescription, and endeavour to make my desire useful by a friendship with William Godwin?
Selected English Letters
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And hereby he teaches us that, in reproving others, as we should be faithful, so we should also be gentle, and endeavour to restore them in the spirit of meekness, ch. vi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Despite this major problem, banks must endeavour to monitor the external debt position of countries.
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Choose a field of research, and Aristotle laboured in it; pick an area of human endeavour, and Aristotle discoursed upon it.
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During the negotiations for the Treaty of Ghent, 1814, the British negotiators again endeavoured to have the 49th parallel to the Rockies accepted as the boundary, but as the proposal was coupled with a stipulation for free access to, and navigation of the Mississippi, the United States negotiators refused to incorporate these articles in the Treaty and the matter therefore was postponed.
The Oregon Boundary Question
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This was a well deserved victory but Tipperary borderers ensured that it was hard earned: both sides can take credit for an admirable display with honest endeavour, courage and some excellent football on show.
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Actually no, but it was almost the case in November 2006, when a launch pad technician forgot to secure a door in the White Room leading to the space shuttle Endeavour just before launch.
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But free states and aristocracies are mostly destroyed from want of a fixed administration of public affairs; the cause of which evil arises at first from want of a due mixture of the democratic and the oligarchic parts in a free state; and in an aristocracy from the same causes, and also from virtue not being properly joined to power; but chiefly from the two first, I mean the undue mixture of the democratic and oligarchic parts; for these two are what all free states endeavour to blend together, and many of those which we call aristocracies, in this particular these states differ from each other, and on this account the one of them is less stable than the other, for that state which inclines most to an oligarchy is called an aristocracy, and that which inclines most to a democracy is called a free state; on which account this latter is more secure than the former, for the wider the foundation the securer the building, and it is ever best to live where equality prevails.
Politics: A Treatise on Government
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This frog is the most athletic of all the frogs and has a broad background in physical endeavours.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station at 7: 56 a.m.
Endeavour Begins To Head Home - NASA Watch
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The others endeavoured to restore the afflicted Fairy, but, though still alive, she was in some kind of cataleptic condition which was beyond the ordinary remedies.
In Brief Authority
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“Take back your beads, cummer; I know no legerdemain, can do no conjuring tricks,” said the mediciner, who, more moved than perhaps his rugged nature had anticipated, endeavoured to avoid receiving the ill omened gift.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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It was supposed to be about joy, discipline and honest endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then, but that half a dozen at once endeavoured to keep down her violent hands, would she have beaten herself; as it seems she had often attempted to do from the time the surgeon popt out the word mortification to her.
Clarissa Harlowe
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As I felt unprepared for an even closer look at him, and even less inclined to take in the halitosis and BO that no doubt accompanied his cosmetic unpleasantness, I strenuously endeavoured to decline his invitation.
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She nurtured the hope of becoming a teacher, a field of endeavour that received the approval of both parents.
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That remains a worthy goal, and solid, practical endeavours such as limiting the detritus we leave behind are part of civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yea, such is the power of deceivable lusts, that many will admire at the blindness of others in former generations who considered not the works of God (as the Jews in ` the wilderness), when themselves are under actual contempt of no less glorious dispensations; like the Pharisees, who bewailed the folly of their fathers in persecuting the prophets, when themselves were endeavouring to kill the Son of God, Matt. xxiii.
The Sermons of John Owen
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He shares his wisdom on subjects such as mateship, self confidence, discipline and family values, and throughout the text endeavours to put across a message he believes is applicable to everybody.
Wisdom from the Hardwood - The Austrian Economists
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What the fight lacked in technical ability they made up for by honest endeavour.
The Sun
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I shall endeavour to live through it and will hopefully be as drear as ever within a few hours.
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I have endeavoured to show that Shakespeare cooperated with this derision of forced love-sighs, writing certain of his sonnets in ridicule of their windy suspiration.
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I saw your desire of saving Madame Duval, and scarce could I refrain giving the brutal Captain my real opinion of his savage conduct; but I am unwilling to quarrel with him, lest I should be denied entrance into a house which you inhabit; I have been endeavouring to prevail with him to give up his absurd new scheme, but I find him impenetrable: – I have therefore determined to make a pretense for suddenly leaving this place, dear as it is to me, and containing all I most admire and adore; – and I will stay in town till the violence of this boobyish humour is abated.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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Enthusiasm is a vital ingredient in all human endeavour.
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Now, she is endeavouring to take Queensland further Right than it has ever been, and Bananaland has always been a place of Religious Nutters, insane God Botherers (remember Joh
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I dinna ken whether I will or no -- _ad avisandum, _ ye ken -- naebody should be in a hurry to make admissions, either in point of law, or in point of fact," said Saddletree, looking, or endeavouring to look, as if he understood what was said.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
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Our endeavour is to make children aware of these evils such as drug addiction, alcoholism and other dangerous things.
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I am endeavouring to sort myself some proper webspace to make this easier to access and to enable readers to post comments.
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And thus much for the second thing considerable in the dehortation; namely, the thing we are therein dehorted from, which is that mean, sordid, and degrading vice of covetousness: the nature of which I have been endeavouring to make out, both negatively, by shewing what it is not; and positively, by shewing what it is, and wherein it consists.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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Their account is not exhaustive, but suggestive of a wide field for future endeavour.
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His latest endeavour is the Pay It Forward bike tour in 2007 where his goal is to raise $1 million for disadvantaged youth.
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The topography is based on radar data collected during the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which flew onboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in mid-February 2002.
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The drama, bravery and human endeavour involved in the prize ring seems to inspire authors beyond the common drudgery of your average sports biography and this is no exception.
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This academy bears testimony to his tireless and selfless endeavours and services in this regard.
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He added: ‘We are aware that there is an issue with the tiles and we are endeavouring to resolve the problem as soon as we can.’
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In spite of our best endeavours, it has proven impossible to contact her.
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Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales
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The gentle and intelligent reader will remember (though that miserable worm, the vapid and irreflective reader, will have forgotten) that at the beginning of the term the fags of Kay's had endeavoured to show their approval of Fenn and their disapproval of Kennedy by applying to the former for leave when they wished to go to the town; and that Fenn had received them in the most ungrateful manner with blows instead of exeats.
The Head of Kay's
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Mothers sat holding their "piccaninnies" in their sable embrace, murmuring expressions of endearment, or endeavouring to hush them to rest.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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You're quite right, Jedburgh, I cannot pretend to understand your motives in embarking on such a… temerarious endeavour,’ I snapped, folding my arms crossly.
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At the end of the seventeenth century, the first academy to function as a guide to general cultural endeavour in Italy was the Accademia degli Arcadi, founded in 1690.
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Network wishes Andy every success in this endeavour and will, of course, keep you advised of his progress.
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Because we believe that ‘we achieve more by our common endeavour than we achieve alone’.
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Unlike traditional artistic endeavours such as literature, painting or sculpture, videogames and their creation, according to Janet Murray, are still in an incunabular period.
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Crossing the North Pole on foot was an amazing feat of human endeavour.
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In an endeavour to improve the service, they introduced free parking.
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But if you're a pioneering, high-achieving Scotswoman, what extraordinary standards of human endeavour are required before you qualify for a statue?
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And I am assured, also, that the truth proposed in it inwraps the whole ground of any just expectation of the continuance of the presence of God amongst us, and his acceptation of our endeavours about the allotment and just disposal of our civil affairs.
The Sermons of John Owen
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We endeavoured, that is, to imagine with the senses of the mind, in our imagination, the material character of that awful place and of the physical torments which all who are in hell endure.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Without being what is called a mesmerist, I am possessed of considerable magnetic power, which I have endeavoured to develop as far as possible.
Mr. Isaacs
