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He bestowed a large amount of money on the institute.
The college bestowed an honorary degree on him.
They bestowed several gifts on the royal visitors.
She bestowed a gift on me.
The last fifteen years have sufficed to elevate the compound microscope from the condition we have described to that of being the most important instrument ever bestowed by art upon the investigator of nature.
Like their Dutch predecessors, the French mariners bestowed the names of European birds upon the birds which they saw in these new lands, and it would be an idle task to seek the equivalents of the ousels, thrushes, and turtle-doves which Crozet saw in Tasmania.
In the introduction, I remarked, “The house of clay in which the mind dwells must receive a portion of its care; and that which I have bestowed on mine has proceeded on a belief in the truth of the theory herein advocated, as undoubting as that in the laws of gravitation; and when any new fact, or any remark of an author, relating to my theory came under my observation, I noted it down and laid it by with its kindred.
With sagacity to conceive and fortitude to perfect his designs, [12]he laid his plans and struggled against many disappointments, amid the ridicule and predictions of failure freely bestowed by his neighbors,-often against serious pecuniary embarrassments; and at last was crowned by a wonderful degree of success.
As the Looking-glasse represents not any image within it selfe, unlesse it receive some from without; so the Moone hath not any light, but what is bestowed by the Sun.
So that what the ancient Poets were faine to put in a fable, our more happy age hath found out in a truth, and we may discerne as farre with these eyes which Galilæus hath bestowed upon us, as Lynceus could with those which the Poets attributed unto him.
" Many accounts are given by alchemical writers of the agent, and many names are bestowed on it.
He replied that it was a gift freely bestowed on him by a friend who had stayed a few days at his house.
I am ready to go back to my place and country; but, before doing so, let me, by way of epilogue, tender to you my most hearty thanks for the kind and cordial reception which you have accorded to me; and let me thank you still more for that which is the greatest compliment which can be afforded to any person in my position-the continuous and undisturbed attention which you have bestowed upon the long argument which I have had the honour to lay before you.
[1] The actual work of the University founded in this city by the well-considered munificence of Johns Hopkins commences to-morrow, and among the many marks of confidence and good-will which have been bestowed upon me in the United States, there is none which I value more highly than that conferred by the authorities of the University when they invited me to deliver an address on such an occasion.
It is impossible to study that plan without perceiving that great care, forethought, and sagacity, have been bestowed upon it, and that it demands the most respectful consideration.
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