Do we say right or write

right 65920 occurrences

"I hope it will, and then Merv will have a right to call itself a city.

It is even necessary to keep an eye on the platforms of the cars in case a stray panther or bear might seek a ride without any right to travel either first or second class.

The right to use according to will, is itself ownership.

What slaveholder ever undertook to prove his right to himself?

He knows it to be a self-evident proposition, that a man belongs to himselfthat the right is intrinsic and absolute.

Why take from them their time, labor, liberty, right of self-preservation and improvement, their right to acquire property, to worship according to conscience; to search the Scriptures, to live with their families, and their right to their own bodies, if they do not desire them?

To give the master a right to sell his servant, would annihilate the servant's right of choice in his own disposal; but says the objector, "to give the master a right to buy a servant, equally annihilates the servant's right of choice."

To give the master a right to sell his servant, would annihilate the servant's right of choice in his own disposal; but says the objector, "to give the master a right to buy a servant, equally annihilates the servant's right of choice."

To give the master a right to sell his servant, would annihilate the servant's right of choice in his own disposal; but says the objector, "to give the master a right to buy a servant, equally annihilates the servant's right of choice."

They might neither seize them by force, nor frighten them by threats, nor wheedle them by false pretences, nor borrow them, nor beg them; but they were commanded to buy them[A]; that is, they were to recognize the right of the individuals to dispose of their own services, and their right to refuse all offers, and thus oblige those who made them, to do their own work.

They might neither seize them by force, nor frighten them by threats, nor wheedle them by false pretences, nor borrow them, nor beg them; but they were commanded to buy them[A]; that is, they were to recognize the right of the individuals to dispose of their own services, and their right to refuse all offers, and thus oblige those who made them, to do their own work.

"All right," said Rhona.

Haven't I a right to walk up and down with my friend?

"Do you think a man has any right to strike a girl?" Still he said nothing, and the crowd became fascinated by the fixity of gaze of the two.

"In this country if men only voted right ... only had the right sort of government....

"In this country if men only voted right ... only had the right sort of government....

"Don't you think there's right on the other side, too?

" "You really think you're all right, then?" "Oh, I know it!

I suppose you threw it over on the right-hand side?" "Yes." "How far across the bridge had you got when you threw it?

" "'Pussy,' he said, 'you're all right, you're a plucky little woman, and I'm a bad lot, but I'm not as bad as that.

Let the following paragraph be compared with the observations and proofs which I shall offer: "Adjectives that have in themselves a superlative signification, do not properly admit of the superlative or [the] comparative form superadded: such as, 'Chief, extreme, perfect, right, universal, supreme,' &c.; which are sometimes improperly written, 'Chiefest, extremest, perfectest, rightest, most universal, most supreme,' &c.

This pronominal adjective is very often mixed with some such ellipsis, and that to repeat the import of various kinds of words and phrases: as, "God shall help her, and that right early.

[220] This is a comment upon the following quotation from Milton, where Hers for His would be a gross barbarism: "Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us."Par.

Of examples like these, three different views maybe taken; and it is very questionable which is the right one:

We have no more right to speak out now than we ever had.

write 13656 occurrences

Choice is more often determined by accident than by reason: I walked abroad one morning with a curious lady, and, by her inquiries and observations, was incited to write the natural history of the country in which I reside.

I acquainted myself with the black inhabitants of metallick caverns, and, in defiance of damps and floods, wandered through the gloomy labyrinths, and gathered fossils from every fissure, At last I began to write, and as I finished any section of my book, read it to such of my friends, as were most skilful in the matter which it treated.

I resolved to read no more, but to take my own way and write on, for by consultation I only perplexed my thoughts and retarded my work.

When I began to write, I insured the house; and suffered the utmost solicitude when I entrusted my book to the carrier, though I had secured it against mischances by lodging two transcripts in different places.

He often expressed his commiseration of Dryden's poverty, and his indignation at the age which suffered him to write for bread; he repeated with rapture the first lines of All for Love, but wondered at the corruption of taste which could bear any thing so unnatural as rhyming tragedies.

He then puts on a very serious air; he advises the pupil to read none but the best authors; and when he finds one congenial to his own mind, to study his beauties, but avoid his faults; and, when he sits down to write, to consider how his favourite author would think at the present time on the present occasion.

How I proceed in the pursuit of happiness, you shall hear when I find myself disposed to write.

He that writes the history of his own times, if he adheres steadily to truth, will write that which his own times will not easily endure.

Every author does not write for every reader; many questions are such as the illiterate part of mankind can have neither interest nor pleasure in discussing, and which, therefore, it would be an useless endeavour to level with common minds, by tiresome circumlocutions or laborious explanations; and many subjects of general use may be treated in a different manner, as the book is intended for the learned or the ignorant.

It is less difficult to write a volume of lines swelled with epithets, brightened by figures, and stiffened by transpositions, than to produce a few couplets graced only by naked elegance and simple purity, which require so much care and skill, that I doubt whether any of our authors have yet been able, for twenty lines together, nicely to observe the true definition of easy poetry.

"None of de darkies on dat place could read an' write.

"Couldn' none of us read or write, an' us wa'nt neber learned 'til afte' us was set free.

"Dey had a nigger woman to teach all de house darkies how to read an' write an' I larned how to sign my name an' got as fur as b-a-k-e-r in de Blue Back Speller.

Of these, Clement alone seemed to me respectable, and even he to write only what I could myself have written, with Paul and Peter to serve as a model.

To devote good talents to write history or investigate nature, was simple waste: for at the Lord's coming, history and science would no longer be learned by these feeble appliances of ours.

You make fine ships, and sharp penknives, and good cloth and cottons; and you have rich nobles and brave soldiers; and you write and print many learned books: (dictionaries and grammars:)

"There is opportunity for service for people of all tastesthose who prefer teaching how to read and write, for sewing, for care of the health, care of the baby, avoiding sickness, nursing the sick ... but in every case devotion, enthusiasm, and a sympathetic Christian spirit are needed.

It is not about that I wish to write, but about the remarkable way India is repressing the movement.

The following is written by a Hindu student: "Before entering into the subject, I should like to write a few words about myself.

The carriage went on very well with them; and it was not till six months afterwards that we found out that the tankard had been bought at a sale!" He told me, "when I wanted to write any thing particularly well,to do better than ordinary,I used to order a post-chaise and go to Longtown; it is the first stage from Carlisle towards the north; there is a comfortable, quiet inn there.

I first became an ardent lover of Mr. Barrie through "Sentimental Tommy," and I simply had to write and tell him how hugely I had enjoyed it.

[Footnote 1: "Wordsworth says he could write like Shakespeare if he had the mind.

I said I would write and ask Mrs. Stirling to give her lessons, but feared she could not as she was ill.

Thus, on the 1st of May 1834, she writes to Sir John: "Both yourself and my dear niece urged me to write often, and to write always twice; but, alas!

Thus, on the 1st of May 1834, she writes to Sir John: "Both yourself and my dear niece urged me to write often, and to write always twice; but, alas!

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