... I did speak of it as my machine, and of course that is what misled him. When I own part of a piece of property I always speak of it as mine. This is merely for grandeur. I igeore the other proprietors. On the same principle, I always speak of America ...

... contain myself any longer. Deputy Wolff is not speaking to the point. President: Why didn't you Say that before? -Deputy Fuchs: That Paragraph 511 President: Ohe seeI Mr. Deputy Wolff; you are not speaking to the question. fth reporters vill kindly ...

... better than. free-speaking it's firee-fighting; which is the reason why they never come out on top. For you can't do both at the same time, which is a non- certainty, and no honest man can deny. This lorryman 'ere can fight, but speak he cannot no more ...

... When people are writing in English, and speaking of the leader as Prince, they may as well call him Nicholas, all the more as the name is the same in Slav with the loss of the last letter. If they choose to speak of him in Slav, by way of giving that couleur ...

... be betrayed, whereas the latter is the only medium of com- munication between a Welsh-speaking suitor, who has to get up and state his own case, and an English-speaking judge, who must take that statement from the suitor's own lips. Now, the majority of ...

... Bat lawyers not only used to have to speak their way to their places, but they had to keep them by speaking. They were specially relied upon in every great debate. During the last two Administrations the speaking of the law officers has systematically ...

... the need for a change of view and a change of phrase in speaking and in thinking about the English commonweal. What we have to defend, he truly says, is not the country but the realm. We speak habitually of ' the good of 'the country,' 'the wishes ...

... always gives one the idea of being put on, and in speaking of weak nationalities or to their representatives his tone is generally slighting and con- temptuous. He is a capital com- panion, for he speaks English, French, and German with equal facility, ...

... line of criticism, Mr. GLADSTONE goes on to speak of this journal as the organ, as it describes itself, of the upper classes -having previously spoken of it as a paper that often speaks or undertakes to speak for the people of England. To the latter ...

... point of fact, the large majority of the Belgians speak Low German ; only a small section of that majority being conversant with French as well. The exclusively French, or a strange dialect of French, speaking Walloons are the minority in the kingdom. Nevertheless ...

... have to say if he speaks on any platform other than the floor of the House of Commons. This, which is largely due to the mechanical difficulty of reporting a long debate in extenso, arises partly from the fact that when a politician speaks at a public meeting ...

... BOULANGER, or Prince BISMARCX, or any one else. They can speak for therrselves. They may, perhaps, speak for the City of London, they can speak for no one else. This first clause, by claiming a right to speak oh behalf of the people of Great Britain and Ireland ...