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His zoological information is, so far, knowledge and not mere hearsay.
I however speak only from hearsay; what then I have heard I have no scruple in telling.
Theatrically, and apart from the taste of it (I report only from hearsay), the coup must have been immensely successful.
Withal he was so modest that these things became known only by implication or hearsay, never by direct evidence.
He had seen it, of course, often; was acquainted by hearsay with its contents, and had joked about them.
This statement upon hearsay, however, does little more than confirm the definite assertion of Boccaccio that Dante "trained many scholars," not in civil law, but in "poetry, especially in the vernacular."
"Well, well, this seems to be all hearsay information," muttered the doctor.
Such assertions are apt to be the most roundabout sort of hearsay.
Communities which had known of such disputes only from hearsay stood amazed.
The odious, hearsay phrase came out with difficulty.
By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
Bacon he must have described largely from hearsay, but what he says of Laud is an admirable specimen of his manner, and leaves us wishing that he had devoted himself in larger measure to the worthies of his own time.
There's no evidence but hearsay and surmise against him.
He turned naturally to America, being familiar, by hearsay at least, with stories of the ease of gaining a livelihood there, and influenced by the knowledge that in the United States he would find people of his own blood and speech.
He was, I believe, slain in one of the numerous skirmishes, but even that I learned only by hearsay.
Being entirely dependent on hearsay, he obtained but a sadly distorted account of truth.
This sumptuous house shall, for ages hence, be but from hearsay known.
I waited for an honest an unequivocal retraction of her statements based on "hearsay."
And we've heard tons of unsubstantiated hearsay in testimony from previous witnesses.
"I know him only by repute, by hearsay," he said with an effort.
The hearsay amounted to nothing, and they plied me with questions as to my views on slavery.
The story of your old man interested me very much; I suppose a parent can love all through a whole lifetime of absence: but do you think there can be a very strong and enduring affection in a child's bosom for a parent hardly known except by hearsay?
For he had it from hearsay that this was an especially goodly land and peopled by wealthy inhabitants.
He told as history what he believed to be true, and collected his materials from sources acknowledged to be trustworthy; and he is always careful to tell us when he gives a story on evidence only hearsay.
At all events, his appearance so tallied with hearsay that, whether founded upon fact or not, the reputation remained.
I speak not from hearsay alone; I can personally substantiate these facts.
Several wanted to convince themselves personally of this miracle, which they could not credit from the hearsay of others and the juggler himself encouraged those standing near him to touch him wherever they chose and fire would spring from his body.
In one case only is hearsay evidence admissible, and that is in the case of a dying declaration.
Nevertheless, she made a determined attempt to substantiate them by hearsay evidence.
We must investigate reality, lay aside selfish notions and banish hearsay from our minds.
The objection to the exclusion of hearsay evidence is equally unfounded.
Under the civil law procedure, there is little, if any, limitation upon the kind of evidence which can be introduced to sustain the issue on either side, and the rule against hearsay evidence does not prevail.
She uttered these words as if the gondolas were a curious faraway craft which she knew only by hearsay.
Now as to the tales told by the Egyptians, any man may accept them to whom such things appear credible; as for me, it is to be understood throughout the whole of the history that I write by hearsay that which is reported by the people in each place.
The use of the rifle, as we have before hinted, was little known at this period among the Indians of the far west, and many had never heard the dreaded report before, although all were aware, from hearsay, of its fatal power.
A human mind cannot readily create simple forms that are absolutely new; what it fashions will naturally resemble what other minds have fashioned, or what it has known through hearsay or through sight.
In fact, I hardly know how to explain myself to you, since I know nothing save by hearsay, and what mountaineers say.
Since the dreadful persecution arising from the (real or supposed) murder of little Hugh, Lincoln had been comparatively quiet from such tumults; and Bertha was too young to know anything about it but from hearsay.
She would track down the most minute speck of hearsay, to get authenticity.
The lying charts, compiled in main from hearsay, were now constantly consulted.
I am acquainted with the parties only by hearsay.
All I know about it is from hearsay, but it must have been a most miserable business, and if half the tales which are in circulation about the management are true, it was fit for anything except education.
A neighboring king, having heard a great deal of her beauty, fell in love with her upon hearsay, and sent an ambassador with a magnificent suite to ask her in marriage, bidding him be sure and not fail to bring the princess home with him.
Even when he had some hearsay knowledge of what has been done, his want of acquaintance with the facts and his abnormal deficiency in what I may call the scientific sense, prevent him from divining its importance.
It is hardly to be supposed that your man is in ignorance of the best ground, either from experience or hearsay, and it is only after you get there that our instructions can possibly come into operation.
Even the very young man knows either by experience or hearsay, that women have concentrated upon their faculty for turning this particular weapon to account, all the skill they would have divided among other resources had there been others.
He possessed a sort of intuition which discerned the truth, apart from his own observations, and thus information given by him from hearsay has a value that seldom attaches to statements of that nature.
"I rearranged the song you refer to only from hearsay."
Knowing well, by hearsay, all these facts, you can easily imagine my feelings, at finding myself face to face with one of these fierce animals, alone and without weapons, save my bow and arrows and knife.
I think this is highly probable, though I cannot vouch for the truth of the assertion, it being only hearsay.
He had learned all that it was possible for him to learn by hearsay of the things which most interested him; but, even so, he felt that he had much time to make up, much to learn that could come only from his own observation.
These humble servants of the post office, travelling over considerable tracts of country, would naturally become the means of conveying local gossip from stage to stage, and of spreading hearsay news as they went along.
It was adding eyesight to hearsay.
No book has been written upon it except from hearsay, and no European has penetrated across its length and breadth.
I knew the man by hearsay, though we had never met before; and I knew that he was of a nature to be pleased with his own prominence as coroner, especially in the case of so important a man as Joseph Crawford.
The number of those who claim direct experience of spiritual verity as against mere hearsay is greater than ever.
Hitherto much has been surmise and inference and hearsay.
Ah yes, I know the doctor by hearsay.
I think it is a mistake for our people to sell and practically give their earnings of years just on a hearsay that they will be given larger salaries and great advantages in some other part of the country.
George, the founder of the Republic, a man of original and intelligent cast of mind, if I may judge of his individuality from hearsay, decided on its establishment after many attempts of a similar nature.
Another classification which the scientific man makes is to distinguish between the two kinds of truth in each respective realm, and to separate that kind which may be demonstrated to the experience from that which must be taken on hearsay.
That is, in the natural realm, in the department of chemistry, for example, the laws of chemical action can be put to the laboratory test of experiment, while the history of the science of chemistry must always be taken on hearsay.
Bathurst, with some hearsay particulars concerning Shakespeare from the papers of Aubrey, which had been in the hands of Wood; and I ought not to suppress them, as the last seems to make against my doctrine.
It would be hearsay evidence, and such evidence was not admissible in any court of law.
What I recount now with regard to lion hunting is from hearsay, not from personal experience.
His cousin thought she knew a lot, but, sifting it down, he discovered that it was nearly all hearsay or surmise.
She looked at it all as though it had been the scene of some unknown life, of which the vague report had reached her: she felt for herself the only remote pity that busy people accord to the misfortunes which come to them by hearsay.
This evidence was strongly objected to as hearsay, but held admissible by the Commissioner.
He knew of it, however, only by Chinese hearsay, and the story he told contained far more of fable than of fact.
Yet Courts of Law, which in consideration of the defects of personal observation require more than one witness to establish the truth, exclude hearsay evidence altogether in certain cases, and not without reason.
Eddy, drawn from her own acts and words solely, not from hearsay and rumor; and to explain the nature and scope of her Monarchy, as revealed in the Laws by which she governs it, and which she wrote herself.
The prince himself, who is rarely the shining genius of his court, esteems you only by hearsay but likes you by his senses; that is, from your air, your politeness, and your manner of addressing him, of which alone he is a judge.
I know nothing except from the hearsay of his recital.
The Salvation Army, a very small organization in both amount and scope of work, which I never saw in action because I did not happen to be in the limited sector it covered, was, however, popular if only by hearsay in every part of the great army.
He would see many states and cities, and become acquainted with places which he now knew only by hearsay.
He had to speak of French ladies entirely from hearsay.
My own detail could only be gathered from hearsay evidence, and in this I might be misled.
I agree that such a book as this would be better written by one who had actual experience of the life of the poor, rather than the official hearsay experience which is all that I can claim to have had.
The accuracy of Champlain's observations of all that he saw, is evident; as to the hearsay descriptions, we may entertain doubts of the fidelity of his informant, but not of the good faith of the narrator.
Although no one could see her countenance every one knew by hearsay the loveliness of the young princess.
One never comes any nearer to the vulture's nest or nestlings than hearsay.
This is proved by sixteen hearsay witnesses, by forty-one who believed it, by twenty who knew it, and by thirteen who gave evidence that in their belief the Admiral made his discoveries before anyone else whatever.
Lady Johnson's features were burning, and her lip quivered, but she forced a laugh, saying that her husband could have judged only by hearsay, and that the Scotch girl's reputation was still very good in the country.
What they had related was mere hearsay which had become greatly exaggerated with the passage of time.
For, as with his parents and grandparents, his knowledge of the written or printed word was purely a matter of hearsay.
They know only the outlines of their teachings, and that very superficially or by hearsay.
He was thinking of certain things while he did so, of things he had heard about the English; who still, in spite of his having married into a family of that nation, appeared to him very much through the medium of hearsay.
Of these, therefore, I can only speak from hearsay: but the chambers above ground, which I saw, are a superhuman work.
It was either hearsay, or given by persons utterly unworthy of credit, or wrung from the accused by agony and torture.
Still, however, she was often absent from Court at moments of great importance, and was obliged to take her information, upon much which she has recorded, from hearsay, which has led her, as I have before stated, into frequent mistakes.
In fact, he professes to know nothing about Utopia except from mere hearsay.
The only way to understand this strange history of the Messiah is, to reject the account of his preaching altogether; and to consider the whole of his ministry as being written by unknown persons from hearsay only.
The present scribe was not present on that memorable occasion, and has written this inadequate and most incomplete description partly from hearsay and private information, partly from the reports in the contemporary newspapers.
Of all that transpired during his stay with Miss Trevor I can only speak from hearsay.
The frequency with which Shakespeare mentions the cedar can only be explained as the action of a far-ranging intellect, beholding things through the eyes of travelers, and weaving hearsay into vivid imagery.
He now remembered everything, knew even something by hearsay of the perilous journey I had ventured upon, and, seeing the pitiful condition I was in, tears of manly compassion rose to the young officer's eyes.
Such is the ideal transition from credulity to independence, from hearsay to reality.
I, expect to see hippopotamuses and many crocodiles and to learn something of the "atrocities" by hearsay.
For myself, however, I can speak from observation, being determined not to take that doctrine on hearsay; I have witnessed many theatrical performances, and they only served to confirm my prejudices against the institution.
The writers of these books travelled over many thousands of miles, and they described, in the main, what they saw, although, of course, they repeated, with more or less of exaggeration, much which they only knew from conversation or from hearsay.