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His prime minister, Sully, was as able a man as Burleigh, and as good a Protestant; and the nation was enthusiastic.

"No offense," said M. Paul, "but this is a case where even as able a judge as yourself must have special assistance andGibelin couldn't find the truth in a thousand years.

Our best scholars and ablest menwith one or two conspicuous exceptionsdo not write, and the work is left to be done by littérateurs and clergymen or laymen who have never undergone the severe preliminary discipline which scientific investigation requires.

But a List of Particulars would swell my Letter beyond its Bounds, what I have said being sufficient to comfort those who are in the like Distress, since they may conceive Hopes of being no longer miserable in this Kind, while there is yet alive so able an Oculist as Dr. Grant.

He is a great favorite in the foreign colony, and is as able a scholar as he is a charming gentleman.

In recognising our demand, the Assembly has got right entirely on its side, we shall now consider all rebellion against the authority of which it makes so able a use, as an act entailing immediate punishment.

The two Anglo-Saxon, professors were but able amateurs of their instruments.

In performing what I conceive to be my duty I have been actuated by entire respect toward the General Government and by the single desire to explain and enforce as well as I was able our wishes and our rights.

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