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The substance of the words in inverted commas is contained in Colonel Finch's letter, but Shelley does not cite verbatim.
I am not well acquainted with the laws of this country, but it seems to me that the verbatim publication of this paper would mean for you something more than financial ruin.
A still more cogent objection is that if you occupy your attention with the task of copying the lecture verbatim, you do not have time to think, but become merely an automatic recording machine.
He merely listened and smiled his startlingly sunny smile, and afterwards repeated Manuel's words almost verbatim to Jack.
A verbatim report of the Admiral would, however, harm no one, signify high-toned candor and a certain breezy simplicity in the treatment of momentous matters.
President Lincoln is dead, and as Hawthorne once wrote to me, "Upon my honor, it seems to me the passage omitted has an historical value," I will copy here verbatim what I advised my friend, both on his own account and the President's, not to print nine years ago.
It would not be seemly, in this connection, to give a verbatim report of the conversations of us boys when we assembled at our rendezvous after school.
In other words, it adopts verbatim the phraseology of the Fifteenth Amendment, merely substituting the word "sex" for the words "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
The Democratic platform, on the other hand, verbatim repeated the Federation plank on the injunction question and nominated Bryan.
More than one-fourth of Joaquin Miller's "True Bear Stories"' consists of that newspaper yarn, copied verbatim and without amendment, revision or verification.
Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses, which, after a little pause, he repeated verbatim, varying only one epithet, by which he improved the line.
In the chapters on habit and memory I have even copied several pages verbatim, but I do not know that apology is needed for such plagiarism as this.
For my own part, I am going to reproduce it verbatim, without one single impertinent suggestion of any point of view save that of honest reporting.
Even to imbibe the best qualities of the style of Thucydides would not require whole pages to be learned verbatim; a much better way would readily occur to any intelligent man.
The memory is much better impressed through the exertion of picking, choosing, and condensing, than by copying verbatim; and the plan or evolution of the whole is more fully comprehended.
To quote verbatim from this relic of the former religious life would savor too much of ridiculing those things that were sacred and serious to the people of that day.
The correspondence was taken verbatim from a ten-cent book on astrology; I got tired, and handed the letters over to my wife.
I will not say that I have given them verbatim, but this I do say, and will maintain, that I have not exaggerated in my statements.
I felt almost ashamed, and repeated verbatim to Louis our conversation; he laughed, and, patting my shoulder, said: "You spoke quite rightly, she was impertinent, pardon her ignorant vanity."
Knowing his failing, I smiled incredulously, but he began immediately to recite the sermon verbatim, and I verily believe that he could have gone through the whole without a mistake of a single word.
It was Doyle who wrote the carefully prepared incendiary speeches, which were learned verbatim by his agents for delivery.
She was very tired, but out of a sort of gratitude for his friendliness, a readiness to do him honor, she strained her energies to take down his speech verbatim.
"Would you say then, sir," he said meekly, "that I should continue my habit of writing out verbatim my sermons, and then commit them to memory?"
The book reads like a verbatim report of those elaborate dialogues which he was in the habit of holding with himself in his solitary ramblings.
In nearly all the tests, except that of naming sixty words, the examiner will find it possible by the liberal use of abbreviations to record practically the entire response verbatim.
We have just received the following from an esteemed correspondent, who transcribes it verbatim from the familiar letter of a friend.
The postscript explained it all, and the postscript I give verbatim as I read it aloud to Cousin John whilst we were whizzing along at the rate of forty miles an hour.
In a few instances the names have been changed, where it was thought that verbatim copies of the epitaphs might prove invidious to the relatives or friends of the dead.
As a proof of the insolence to which the English are subjected, I will give the reader a verbatim copy of a letter sent to me by a friend not more than a year ago.
As to distinctively religious teachings, every scholar had the catechism verbatim, ready to recite at a moment's notice, and a failure in the "golden text" was unknown.
I do not claim to have furnished a verbatim report of the speeches delivered in the Conference of 1861, but I insist that I have given an accurate account of all its official proceedings, and the substance of the remarks made in the course of those proceedings.
Their sermons and prayers were very loud, forcible and energetic, and if they had been printed verbatim, would have looked a sad jumble of words.
I will continue my reminiscence by extracting verbatim a page or so from my imperfect, though as far as it goes, authentic diary.
The extent and broad scope of the statutes of this state may be seen upon reading the statutes verbatim, which are herewith given.
The business of heralds is a matter of so great nicety that, to avoid mistakes, I shall give you my cousin's letter, verbatim, without altering a syllable.
According to the Preface to the Small Catechism, the teacher is to abide with rigid exactness by the text which he has once chosen and have the children learn it verbatim.
Pretending friendship, one of them enlightened him as to the exact circumstances which were amusing them, and then sneaked back to his companions with a verbatim report of his surprised exclamations.
A correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine of 1796 gives the following account of it, which he had verbatim from an old inhabitant.
Among other entries in his journal about this date, is one that so commends itself by its brevity and comprehensiveness that I quote it verbatim.
The great merit of which is that they might be read verbatim to any congregation, and they would be understood and appreciated by the uneducated almost as fully as by the cultured.
Before my two hours were ended, I could repeat every sentence of the ceremony verbatim, and felt that I had mastered the thing, and was not going to my execution in undertaking my duties as adjutant.
Lunch was ready by the time Vane came downstairs, re-clothed and refreshed, and when they were alone he repeated to his father almost verbatim the conversation he had had with Enid.
It is of interest also from the fact that Theobald transcribed from it almost verbatim the comparison of Shakespeare and Addison in the Preface of 1733.
I had at that time a memory which recoiled from nothing; and I soon found that the shortest process was to learn the text by heart nearly verbatim.
The objection, too, that it is inconceivable how the blessing spoken by Jacob could have been handed down verbatim to Moses, finds its best refutation in the history of Arabic poetry.
Even when playing up a court decision, it is rarely wise to quote large extracts verbatim, owing to the heaviness of legal expression and the frequent use of technical terms.
If one does not have an advance copy, one should attempt to get the speech by topics, with occasional verbatim passages of particularly pithy or dynamic passages.
And, in the next place, let me say, that repeating verbatim the words of the book, is not the method of recitation at which you should aim.
In the latter, on one of the front benches, sat the stenographer who had been admonished on her life to write the turbulent speeches verbatim.
Failing to get satisfaction either way, he required the commissary to draw up a verbatim report of his objections and his claim, determined to bring an action.
However, the following is the English version verbatim, as it appears on the leaflet, word for word and point for point, italics and all.
Naturally, I did not take a verbatim note of his conversation, but I have something of a knack of remembering talk that interests me, and I think my reproduction is very near to the tale that I heard.
It runs thus verbatim: "Wherefore, things ordained by them, as necessary to salvation, have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared, that they be taken out of Holy Scripture."
He bent forward and reread what he had scrawled in his last notes, a verbatim extract from the report of the security committee.
It is of course no verbatim rendering, but it is, he says, closely after the manner of their talk, the gist was that, and things of that sort were said.
We think we shall please our readers by inserting verbatim the following excellent description of the Amati instruments, furnished to us by an able and experienced connoisseur.
And then, the new plans all jotted down, the felicitous expressions written out verbatim, the facts and figures clearly noted, let the convention be widely reported.
Notwithstanding ten years had elapsed since that visit, he proceeded to give from memory a verbatim report of Lincoln's remarks.
A few days either before or after the publication of my work, for I do not exactly recollect the time, there appeared another work upon the same subject, taken verbatim from my first volume, except a few stupid things which were joined to the extract.
The following instance is taken verbatim from a series of ceremonies that I had a priest perform against a delinquent debtor who owed me a sum of money.
The names and addresses of the firms from which they emanate are, however, for very obvious reasons, omitted from these reprints, though all else is given verbatim.
The objection to his quotations on the grounds that they are not verbatim, is neutralized by the fact that neither are his quotations from the Old Testament always exact.
Little did I know that when he made notes in shorthand they were in fact literal and verbatim reports of our entire conversation, made at the suggestion of the police and for their special benefit.
Our eyes met in the glass, and she scurried away like a frightened rabbit, but I was not surprised to hear afterwards that many of my remarks were being quoted verbatim in the town.
The record of that council was made up by intelligent and dispassionate men, and the speeches of all there made are recorded verbatim.
Whether this sharp remonstrance produced the desired effect cannot now be ascertained, but the original advertisement was repeated in the newspaper on the 24th and 28th verbatim.
His style was terse and direct; his thoughts and his words came so fast that a verbatim report of an hour's speech filled several newspaper columns.
Mr Simpson, while praised for his fluency, courage, and resource, was not thought equal to his task, and in reading the verbatim report of the debate, one is drawn to the conclusion that he scored his greatest successes when making his greatest jokes.
The practice of each division superintendent reissuing verbatim in his own name instruction circulars from the office of the superintendent of transportation is misleading and ridiculous.
I deliberately opened the Bible and read therefrom the very passages which I had previously quoted verbatim, and cited the chapter and verse.
Occasionally, however, Mormon came upon passages in the original annals that pleased him so well that he transcribed them verbatim in the record he was writing.
The Life contains all the admirable sayings, verbatim as they were delivered, and without the asperity of tone and manner which formed so great a blot in the original deliverer.
Spence, who professes to speak verbatim, 'on reading your letters to Wycherley ; surely 'twas a very difficult thing for you to keep well with him!'
It also gave good telegraphic summaries of events bearing on the women's cause in foreign countries, and sometimes even printed the speeches of suffrage leaders verbatim.
And the conversations I can reproduce almost verbatim, for, according to my invariable habit, I kept full notes of all he said.
As a verbatim report of the proceedings is contained in the following pages, and some account of the judges and counsel engaged therein will be found in the Appendix, it is only necessary here briefly to comment upon the more salient incidents which occurred in the course of the trial.
It was the former who preferred against him in the senate the memorable impeachment, which, fortunately for our information, is recorded verbatim.
The words that fall from her lips are garnered by the swift pen of her husband, and published almost verbatim as she gets and gives them.
As we said above, it is not our intention to enter into the details of our friend's game, or to give a verbatim report of the language he was led to use on several regrettable occasions.
That there can be no question of the accuracy of the foregoing statements, appears clearly from the verbatim report of his trial, perused and approved by the judges and counsel who took part in it.
From the present writer's point of view the remarks on both sides had the fatal drawback that their point lay far more in artistic delivery than in their subject matter, and so to report them here verbatim would give a totally unjust idea of their weight and influence.
It would be superfluous to cite this will in its entirety; we therefore only transcribe such passages as we feel will be of general interest, and these we give verbatim.
As I have explained before West Point methods are strictly opposed to such a system, and the departments discourage verbatim recitations.
Yet, in his report of the conversation that followed between us, which he gave practically verbatim, I had not expressed a single word of surprise and sorrow at this dreadful intelligence, which to an affectionate husband would be absolutely overwhelming.
Howe, which he has very kindly granted the author of this history, there will appear in this chapter, almost verbatim, a number of biographical sketches and other interesting matter, which should be printed in book form so that it could be assured of a permanent place in the archives of the State.
Where the best was to be found, there it has been sought, and where the authors of previous works have expressed their ideas in language considered the most concise and clear, their words have been copied verbatim, with due acknowledgement to the authors.
And then this antithetical chronicler proceeds, rather unnecessarily, to a verbatim report of the libertine cur?'s love speeches, adding, we suspect, some slight embellishments of his own.
"I'm getting jumpy," he thought, turning from the signed and sealed findings of the coroner's jury, through the verbatim reports of the proceedings before the magistrate, to the actual indictment.
This letter was couched in the most friendly terms; but as a specimen of the vanity which the author of it possessed, we shall transcribe it verbatim.
The text has nowhere been translated verbatim; in fact, a familiar European turn has been given to many sentiments which were judged too Oriental.
It trains the speaker to keep his mind firmly fixed on the subject in hand, and it eliminates the danger of that monotony which is the result of verbatim memorizing.
In explanation of the circumstances to which he alluded, he enclosed me a copy of a letter which she had just written to him and which I here transcribe verbatim.
Questions and answers may be taken down, or if the substance of the testimony is desired in either verbatim or indirect form, the reporter can fit together the answers into a continuous account of what the witness testifies, neglecting partially or entirely the questions that elicit the testimony.
I well remember the general merriment of the office when the first of the old man's letters was read aloud, and I recall, too, some of his comments on his own verse, verbatim.
The following, verbatim, was the tactful speech which he addressed to him on the evening of the M.C.C. match, having summoned him to his study for the purpose.
These combined intimations led me to stipulate that, whatever else was omitted, the opium letters should be printed verbatim.
Surely it cannot be ascribed to vanity, if, in gratitude to a most amiable family, I here preserve verbatim an effort of a child nine years old.