"Finally, we appeal to you to excuse us very, very much for daring to write this letter to you, the great personages to whom we owe much respect.
The ceremony, at the former royal palace, was attended by no lesser personages than America's vice-president, Dick Cheney, and defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
In Africa, he says, "I travelled extensively, avoiding official routes, palaces, important personages, and high-level politics".
A gossiping letter of our own friends is often interesting, because it relates to persons and things with which we are familiar, but tittle-tattle and scandal lose their zest when they concern unimportant personages many years dead, buried, and forgotten.
He has, however, been honoured by the calls of many distinguished personages, including the leading members of the Cabinet; the Earl of Aberdeen, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, wrote to the Regent, on Friday evening, to signify it was her Majesty's pleasure that his Highness would have an audience with the Queen, at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at Windsor Castle.
And he has set up a committee of "wise personages" to make recommendations for a truly independent service along the lines of the BBC.
The best-known 19th-century examples of the form are Walter Savage Landor's Imaginary Conversations (vols. 1 and 2, 1824; vol. 3, 1828; thereafter sporadically to 1853), sensitive re-creations of such historical personages as Dante and Beatrice.
A number of his fellow Jews criticized him as an apostate for his fictional presentations of New Testament personages.
Because of the poem's setting, personages, topographical detail, and realistic tone and treatment and because the poet wrote soon after the Cid's death, this poem has been accepted as historically authentic, a conclusion extended to the Castilian epic generally.
Ornamentation is often subject to adaptation, as when Native American groups replaced heavy stone pendants with metal ornaments in the period between Columbian contact and military conquest; such ornaments are readily visible in historical portraits of important indigenous personages.
The work deliberately avoided dull accounts of "military havoc" in favour of knowledgeable comments on the important personages of the day, which remain especially useful.
