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• “General Hunter, who had more cruelly oppressed the inhabitants of the Valley than even General Milroy, was completely defeated, driven in disordered flight toward the Ohio, and Early hastened down the Valley, and thence into Maryland, with the view of threatening Washington, as he had been ordered to do by Lee.”

  A Life of Gen Robert E Lee

• “But I was conscious all the time that these home-made tunes were but makeshifts, and I only awaited an opportunity to take up the study of vocal music, and prepare myself to do scientifically and correctly the work that I was forced to do by guess.”

  Unwritten History

• “We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnaean classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final.”

  English Traits (1856)

• “If the Abbot of westminster shulde sing every day as many masses for his founders as he is bounde to do by his foundacion, 1000 monkes were too few.”

  The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation

• “Despite that victory, Martini was always being told what to do by the Southern Insurgency.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Rig an Election

• “He has been at Munich for some days, and Schimper has been talking with him, and has advanced matters more by a few words than I had been able to do by much writing.”

  Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence

• “This he accordingly set out to do by entering as a clerk the commercial house of Benjamin Bakewell in New York, while his friend Rozier entered a French house in Philadelphia.”

  John James Audubon

• “If a difference between the office of a delegate & any other could ever have been supposed, yet in the case of Mr. Thompson Mason who declined the office of delegate & was permitted so to do by the house that supposition has been proved to be groundless.”

  Letters

• “It is not enough to disparage the Foreign Service, as Rich Armitage used to do by calling it the “Foreign Circus.””

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender is not an Option

• “She has so well succeeded, in Mr. Carson's words, in portraying “what they call the dileck as is spoke hereabout,” the reader is enabled to realize, as he could not so well do by any other method, the homeliness and rusticity of the life presented.”

  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy

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