Which preposition to use with expositions
Tiffany, success of, with French, at exposition of 1878.
Students, nurses, etc., would eagerly listen to his informal expositions in the wards, as he invariably showed a grasp of the subject that was equally minute and comprehensive.
He was also influenced to make this exposition by the "Sic et Non" of Abélard, which tended to unsettle belief.
If you would know the nature of my perplexity, then go to Washington and see the stately magnificence of our National Capitol there, and then go and describe what you have seen to one who has never seen a larger building than his village church; or go and see the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, and then tell your neighbor who has never seen anything greater than a county fair, how, what he has seen compares with the World's Fair!
His articles were a happy compound of poetical elevation and oratorical power, gratifying common-sense and the imagination at the same time, appealing by their lucid exposition to the reader's intelligence, and exciting and warming his fancy by their fervor.
Suddenly the voice of Dr. Brander rasped through his brain, and brought him to attention: "Clay, you're in love, or somethingI don't believe you've heard a word I said, you young scamp, in the last six milesand you've missed a fine exposition on cancerscauses and cure.
Let it not be hastily concluded, that we intend to substitute this book for the gospels, or to obtrude our own expositions as the oracles of God.
Many of my friends bought souvenirs of the exposition from him.
"He will git out the book as soon as he comes home from the St. Louis Exposition with all the big eulogies he gits there on his inventions.
No great events are necessary; the plainest incident, the morning's shopping, is as good as a Pan-American exposition for ideas to crystallize about, since exactly in proportion as an event is embedded in opinion, comment, and feeling, must its value as an epistolary item be rated.
The book was, in short, less an exposition than an exposure.
Sister Sylvester Bobbett laughed when I told her that probable Josiah and I would go to the next Exposition through the air.
The humanities had received disjointed exposition during that session.
Right Rev. Bishop M." You will, I am sure, allow me the license of private judgment in the two expositions about the church in p. 5.