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This in turn was refuted by Isaac Casaubon (1559 1614), who was outraged that Baronius had attempted to write ecclesiastical history without knowing either ancient Greek or Hebrew.
But both his detractors and defenders assumed that Bellamy had attempted to write a forecast of the 20th century, and that eventually "Looking Backward" would have to answer to the historical record.
Following on from his book about the Hitler diaries, Harris had attempted to write "a sort of Baedeker guide to 1945 after Hitler had won, using all the Nazi plans and the Speer architectural drawings and so on.
At the Sorbonne he had attempted to write a novel - "imitation Thomas Wolfe that happily was never published" - but by the time he got to San Francisco he had spent a summer living on Majorca writing poetry.
If Congress had intended the appellate court to have the power to stay this type of order, it hardly seems likely, as the Commission points out, that Congress would have failed to include it, when only the year before it had attempted to write into the statute a specific provision conferring that power.
"All he did was talk about three works; Mozart's Don Giovanni, Schoenberg's A Survivor From Warsaw and Strauss's Elektra," says Maw. "But it was a revelatory experience". In Paris, Maw had attempted to write some orthodox 12-tone works but then consciously decided to "turn away from the accepted Modernist musical scene of the 1960s.
They've attempted to write a scarf-waver.
The tone is too colloquial, or the student has attempted to write so formally that the writing gets beyond his or her control.
He was, in fact, the precise type of secular Enlightenment thinker that some members of the Texas State Board of Education have attempted to write out of their high school curriculum.
I bought myself a notebook recently, in which I have attempted to write down my thoughts on the novel after rereading it.
