Which preposition to use with advice
I soon became desperately in love; and, in spite of the advice of my father and entreaties of my mother, who had formed other schemes for me nearer home, I was married on the anniversary of my twenty-first year.
At least as long ago as the days of CROMWELL, whose advice to his troops was "Put your trust in Providence, and keep your chowder dry.
Late advices from China convey the intelligence that the American-Chinese General WARD, who died in the service of the Celestial empire, has been postmortuarily brevetted to the rank of a "major god," and is now regularly worshipped as such by JOHN PIGTAIL.
His editors, his printers, his binders, his artists, his engravers, his corps of clerks, his office and errand boys, and all connected with his extensive establishment, come to him from time to time for advice in regard to the investment of their surplus earnings, and between assisting in the purchase of a farm for this one, a house for the other, and all sorts of stocks and bonds for the rest, he is often terribly pressed for time.
"Your niece will be anxious to have your advice as to profitable investments.
He gave us very good advice on one or two occasions.
" "When I want advice about my friends I ask for it.
And Aylmer was specially anxious for his view as to the authenticity of a little Old Master he had acquired, and took notes, also, of a word of advice with regard to electric lighting, admitting he was not a very practical man, and Bruce evidently was.
In giving any advice for outfits for miners, I should first state that it is a great mistake to purchase anything whatever before arriving at Juneau, Alaska.
Just then Treadwell saw an opening, and followed the referee's advice by aiming a blow at Dave's left jaw.
Whenever he was eager to discuss his special problems thoroughly and without being interrupted, his young brother and sister were sure to intrude with their questions, or the two elder children needed her advice at the same moment.
If you want advice without telling everything about the case, it will be worthless.
"I should be delighted, my lord, to put your advice into practice at the earliest opportunity," he answered.
The refrain of Carlyle's advice during the most active years of his criticism was, "Close thy Byron, open thy Goethe."
As he was leaving he said, 'Richard, you're a nice boy, so I want to give you some advice before today's game.
"By the way, I have had to quote his own advice against him; for I have refused Lord Chalkclere after all.
Certainly, the many executives of media conglomerates who contacted my colleagues and I for advice throughout the 1990s were both threatened by the unchecked growth of interactive culture and anxious to cash in on these new developments.
'How can a claim be righteous that takes all that a man has?' He nodded, and studied the road awhile, thinking less of her advice than of the strange fervour with which she had given it.
Soto Mayor was warned by his paramour, and it is probable that some of the other settlers received advice through the same channels; still, they neglected even the ordinary precautions.
No man was really in command; the senior captain exercised a vague kind of right of advice over the others, and the latter in turn got from their men such obedience as their own personal influence was able to procure.
He saluted amiably; presently they started across the yard for their quarters, distributing morsels of wisdom and advice among the militiamen, who stared at them with awe and pointed at their beaded shotpouches, which were, alas!
He gave his advice under a grim sense that it was his duty to give it, because the following of it would be best for Miss Van Diemen.
" "And you have consulted with us and followed our advice until yesterday, have you not?" "Yes, sir.
Now it remaines to have your good advice Unto a motion of some consequence.
But none of these, not even romances which deal in moral and sententious advice like Euphues, approach the essence of the novel as we know it.