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1. It is a pleasant task to thank the many grammarians and friends without whose help my book would have been even less perfect than it is.

2. The record of events can be established, be it one day or one century later.

3. The sheets of papyrus which were thus made were somewhat rough, and even after they had been rubbed to make them as smooth as possible, they would have seemed to us poor material on which to write.

4. It is not surprising, therefore, that we should find a sharp contrast in style and outlook between Maugham's early and late works.

5. To define those forces and to indicate the directions in which they operate would require an exhaustive comparison between Oriental and Occidental states of mind, religious and social structures, that would be out of place in this book.

6. He set out on his journey, well knowing that the law allowed no pardon for a second offence of this kind, and whatever he might plead in his defence he would not be released.

7. The same day Peter the Great decreed that Demby ⁹ be instructed in Russian and, having learned Russian, be assigned several young people to teach them both spoken and written Japanese.

8. As I heard the waves rushing along the sides of the ship and roaring in my very ear, it seemed as if Death were raging round this floating prison seeking for his prey.

9. Chinese word order demands that the defining word precede the defined, and as the former conveys the more specific meaning, this principle may lie behind the rule of stress on the former part of the compounds.

10. I wish it were possible to invent a method of embalming persons in such a manner, that they may be recalled to life at any period.

11. In the 17th century few English writers would have quarrelled with a materialist view of life, though their

⁹ Demby — имя потерпевшего кораблекрушение японца, попавшего в Россию.

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view of materialism would not have been the same as that of Marx and Engels.

12. Be this as it may, the author here combined the serfdom period with the characters of an epoch which had not only discarded serfdom, but was busy introducing all sorts of other reforms too.

13. The reader is invited to see the novelist's picture of life as though it were actually happening in the real world.

14. There is also a difficulty to be experienced when special collections (of books in a library) must be kept together. Donors sometimes stipulate that collections may not be broken up, and if these are included in the general catalogue, they can be made available to a wide circle of readers.

15. Two embassies from feudal lords were sent to Rome, and for a time it seemed as though Japan were about to become a Christian country.

16. You can recognize a hand-axe by its form alone, whether it be made in flint, quartzite, basault or shale.

17. Why should poets have invented a shape called the sonnet? Why should the ear have to be tickled with an elaborate system of rhymes?

18. The chief promptly ordered that a gift of food should be made to every crusading soldier.

19. The further progress demands that these idealistic theories should be shown up, refuted, discredited.

20. Etiquette (among the natives) demanded that the guests should take their places on stones round the oven.