It will be stated that you came to my partner's chambers in Hare Court on a matter of pure business, to receive certain money, which was due to you from me in the way of business, for which you gave me the usual business acknowledgment.

'But I did not give you a "business acknowledgment," as you call it,' she said thoughtfully.

" "Thought I'd seen you somewhere before," was the prompt acknowledgment.

They were sometimes too much even for the allowed ultra courtesies of Italian acknowledgment.

The Amazon Clorinda, who has come to fight on the side of Aladin, obtains their pardon in acknowledgment of her services; and Sophronia, who had not loved Olindo before, now returns his passion, and goes with him from the stake to the marriage-altar.

I. p. 137; where it is quoted, word for word, without acknowledgment.] XXIV.

As soon as a new girl or councilor recognizes herself in the pictures we shall proceed to draw, let her come forward and bow to the ground three times in acknowledgment, uttering the words, 'Behold, it is I!

The first offered, on his acknowledgment of their authority as a parliament, to treat with him respecting the [Footnote 1: Whitelock, 449, 456.

But the godly refused to wait; the two committees of the kirk and kingdom protested[c] that they disowned the quarrel and interest of every malignant party, disclaimed the guilt of the king and his house, and would never prosecute his interest without his acknowledgment of the sins of his family and of his former ways, and his promise of giving satisfaction to God's people in both kingdoms.

" The painter took the purse with a bow of acknowledgment, and no more hesitation than one gentleman would show in receiving an obligation from another, and presently left us.

This recognition is ... the mere acknowledgment of existing facts."

The year 628, the first year of embassies, saw his couriers journeying to the princes and emperors of his immediate world to demand or cajole acknowledgment of his mission.

"Largesse, largesse, knight of the crest of gold!" cried the heralds, in acknowledgment of the bounty received; "'A blazon'd shield in battle won, Ne'er guarded heart so bold.'

" "There was occasion for gratitude," persisted Gerald, "or at least for an acknowledgment of your kindness, and it is because I am ashamed of my remissness that I take this first opportunity to thank you.

WOOD observed, more than a century ago, that several authors had unmercifully stolen matter from BURTON without any acknowledgment.

* Faith inditeth, distinguisheth and teacheth, and it is the knowledge and acknowledgment.

Christ was visually present to Stephen; his invocation therefore was not perforce an act of religious adoration, an acknowledgment of Christ's deity.

When I said that perhaps he would like that I should leave an acknowledgment in writing, expressive of the gratitude I felt at my kind and hospitable reception, he appeared much pleased, and instantly procured me paper.

The fair hostess gave him a jewel; and the vagabond skewed such a brutal eagerness in seizing it with his filthy hands, and making not the least acknowledgment, that when they got out of the house, Morgante was ready to fell him to the earth.

OF POETS AND POETRY To James Ashcroft Noble, Poet and Critic, a small acknowledgment of much unforgotten kindness INSCRIPTIONS Poet, a truce to your song!

Much of this he has taken, with all due acknowledgment, from Upham; but he has told the story most pleasantly, in his own way, and these pages will give a better notion of Fenelon, and of the "Eagle" (for eagle read vulture) "of Meaux," old Bossuet, than they are likely to find elsewhere in the same compass.

Such a communication would need no acknowledgment beyond a spoken word of thanks, which she would bestow upon him the next time they met.

These form a very numerous class, and the acknowledgment of the Senator proves the immutable principles upon which opposition to slavery rests.

Upon which, and many other provocations afterward, becoming more and more dissatisfied, he thought fit to demand repayment of five hundred pounds, which he had lent the company; as he had several other sums before; and not receiving it, but, on the contrary, being denied so much as an acknowledgment that it was due, withdrew himself intirely from the board, and left them to their measures.

It was an immediate appeal to a hearing, and understanding, and caring God, whose breath was the very air His creatures breathed, the element of their life; an utter acknowledgment of His will as the bliss of His sons and daughters!