80 Metaphors for accounts

It is conceded by all candid explorers, that, as far as it goes, the account of England by Rapin is the best.

The other and more detailed account is apparently the sequel of the late priestly narratives found in Genesis 1 and 5.

The second account is the journal of Basil Ringrose, who, as a pirate, took part in Sharp's voyage around South America, and was finally killed in a plundering raid.

" "You possess me, my heart, my affections, my duty; of what account is money after this!"

An account of the mountain campaign, through which Secretary Beard went with me, will be the subject of future notes.

'I repeat that the account of the interview with you was a mere incident, thrown in to show that Van Torp occasionally loses his head and behaves like a madman.'

The account of his journey to the Hebrides, or western isles of Scotland, is a model for such as shall, hereafter, relate their travels.

' 'Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book.

The account of what followed is the most singular of all Saxo's stories.

The missing Charles First of Velasquez was lately exhibited in this country, and the account its possessor gives of the mode of its discovery and the obstacles which attended the establishment of its legal ownership in England is a remarkable illustration both of the tact of the connoisseur and the mysteries of jurisprudence.

I have not yet thanked you for your letter of September 18th, with the accounts of the Genoese treaty and of the Pretender's quarrel with the Popeit is a squabble worthy a Stuart.

This account of the first naming of the other creatures by man, is apparently a parenthesis in the story of the creation of woman, with which the second chapter of Genesis concludes.

The best critical account of Plotinus is in The Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers, by Edward Caird, 2 vols., Maclehose, 1904.

The best account of his teaching known to me is in Schmekel, Philosophie der Mittleren Stoa, p. 18 foll.

This was a terrible trial to us, and ye may think what it was when I tell ye it was mair than a twelvemonth before we heard tell o' him; and the first accounts we had was a letter by his ain hand, written frae Bengal.

This accounts for the lines, 'To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear, nor to himself Narcissus.'

I should have told you, that Isabella, during the whole Progress of this Amour, communicated it to her Husband; and that an Account of Escalus's Love was their usual Entertainment after half a Days Absence: Isabella therefore, upon her Lovers late more open Assaults, with a Smile told her Husband she could hold out no longer, but that his Fate was now come to a Crisis.

Every day brings us accounts from different parts of the country, and every account is a new evidence of the general calamity, of the want of employment for the poor, and its necessary consequence, the want of food.

Perhaps at once the most intimate and comprehensive account of him is "The Story of Gladstone's Life," by Justin McCarthy.]

Her account of life is the truer, because it is the more ideal; and this may be said for Charlotte Brontë also.

The account here given, while mentioning the most striking incidents of other versions, is in general an outline of the "Titurel" and "Parzival" of Von Eschenbach.

Clear accounts, with reasonable balances, are the surest cements of business intimacies.

This account (given by Diodorus Sic'ulus, bk. iii., and by sir Walter Raleigh in his History of the World, I. vi. 5) differs from the ordinary story, which makes Sem'elê the mother of Bacchus, and Rhea his nurse.

Thus Jairus's daughter means the Jewish Church, which is to be revived at the second coming of Christ; Lazarus typifies humanity, which will be raised again at the last day; the account of the bodily resurrection of Jesus is a symbol of his spiritual resurrection from his grave in the letter of Scripture.

" I cannot help feeling that this account of the baronetage, though admirable in tone and spirit, and actually pathetic in its closing touch of regretful melancholy, is a little wanting in what the French would call "actuality."

80 Metaphors for  accounts