name for mark twain. there's the mark twain national forest in missouri.here's twain, california, in the northern part of the state. there's a school, a street, a library in germany named after mark twain. and of course there's the kennedy center mark twain prize for american humor. here in washington. we want to thank jocelyn chadwick for joining us for part of this program. she's with the harvard graduate school of education and the national council on teachers of english. thank you professor chadwick for being with us. she spent quite a bit of time talking abteaching mark twain. we have two more teachers from north shore high school in glenhead, new york who teach mark twain as well. here's what they had to say. >> twain gives us a chance to see what we would never see in history books. which is the interfacing, engaging of a poor white boy, son of an abusive, alcoholic, father, from whom he runs. it's the impetus of the book from huck's point of view. then he meets a runaway slave. and the two of them meet a commiseration of that. huck calls them us an

talk about mark twain. i got a watch that day.dicated towards something that i valued which is my friends, the ones that i love, the ones that came and showed up. when i wear that watch, it's a dope moment that i will have them go "mark twain. oh, my god. what a day this was." certain movies i did. i bought watches after doing those movies. oh, my god, jumanji. who knew? jumanji 2. this watch here is so hard. "get hard." me and will ferrell. we did that. >> stephen: kevin hart, have you thought about starting a cult? i might join. i might join if you started a cold. "borderlands" opens in theaters on august 9th. it'sw kevin hart, everybody. we'll be right back with comedian erica rhodes. i love my kids, but i also love not being broke. so this back to school season, i'm just going to spend less on them. amazon has low prices on everything kids need. like sports stuff for a sport that they'll hate in two weeks. inez, let me ask you, you're using head & shoulders, right? only when i see flakes. then i switch back to my regular shamp

that'd be mark twain. for those of us who remember our english lit. also, thanks for placing the grant presidential library mississippi, which says frank do you want to touch on that briefly? yes. so mark twain arrives pretty late in grant's life as a major player during the dramatic story that concludes really the last year of his life grant in the 1880s finds himself in ruin. he had invested money and basically all the family's money went into a wall street banking firm known as grant ward. mr. the partner in this firm was employing what we would today call ponzi schemes, backing multiple loans with the same collateral and engaging in fraud. and well, when this blew up, the family went under and grant to undertake the writing of his memoirs. well, he did not previously entertain idea of writing a full length book, but now really had to provide for his family. he had other another option on the table which mark twain, who had his own publishing house. well, this is not nearly as good a deal as i can get you. so he approached grant and he suggests tha

he just knows perfectly well that he will correct her next time. your favorite book is princes mark twain's because it was not fantasy and this could really happen, i liked it because all the characters in this book were fair and always told the truth. this could happen in the real world, i think not, but we need to strive for this, but we had to tune him more into our game psychologically or still improve his knowledge more psychologically, why is he very modest here and quiet, if other boys there can talk, fool around, he won't, he will quietly, but at the same time together with them, he was never heard, so he probably just needed something like this... she would never offend anyone, she would make a joke somewhere, but at the same time you couldn’t tell from her that she she jokes, she’s quite serious throughout the entire program, she’s generally silent, maybe she’s the life of the party precisely because she’s a grateful listener, and not a storyteller, no, she tells, that is, she listens and tells, well, that’s how she put herself today, do you have friends outside of school, are the

with me now defiance etf ceo sylvia jablonski. >> i was absolutely not thinking about mark twain, but i was just thinking about our fanatic emotions. we're too excited when the markets bumping everyday and buying, buying high. and then everyone sells off. every single time. charles: i help people and i try to help people the hand-holding part of the job is the hardest part of the job. it really is. i don't want to digress but united rentals a month ago i had people asking what do i do? i'm getting killed and now it's rocketing higher. the hand-holding part is tough. now it's also tough though when you have let's say apollo. well known, highly-respected firm, perhaps the most respected on wall street. they put out a chart saying this a.i. bubble right now is even bigger than the tech bubble back in the 1990s. we have it on the screen there. conversely some are saying the mag 7 is getting cheaper based on its five year average so you've got two arguments there but you've got pretty powerful forces out there saying no. the a.i. run is over. >> so the a.i. run hasn't actually started yet.

. >> it's crazy that i'm out here doing this, that this is my job. [ laughter ] >> reporter: mark twain has been quoted at saying the coldest winter that i ever spent was a summer in san francisco. apparently he never made it out to concord. >> the high temps are expected to continue, offering some tips to cope with the heat. and also a list of cooling centers around the county. so there is a link to it on our website at kpix.com. >>> pg&e cut the power to about 2,000 customers today with the goal of preventing wildfires. we'll show you the map that will show you the current outages right now. the utility originally planned to cut power to 1,000 customers. but some of the shutoffs were delayed. so there is some near clear lake right now, but most of them are in had the far northern california area including paradise where the camp fire killed 84 people in 2018. >>> so fire crews are crediting the strong and very quick response for getting a handle on this fire. the toll fire. this is north of calistoga. fires are about 10% contained. mandatory evacuations have just been downgraded to ev

dead and refused to answer. that it seems that the intrigue remains, everything in the spirit of mark twainth are greatly exaggerated. olga zhurenkova, alexander mostova and andrey ramanov, dmitry manyshev, lead the duty department. gray sim cards to emerge from the darkness. min-digits proposes to limit the ability to top up a phone account without a passport, all in order to stop the uncontrolled withdrawal of money by scammers. after all, in essence, each sim card is a bank account, and if legally it belongs to no one, then the flow of money cannot be tracked. word to galina hungureeva. rows of pavilions with simple advertising at the sovelovsky market in the capital. the displays of the new modern items shine on the windows. telephony, but every taste, color and technical capabilities, possibilities up to the criminal, under a stack of boxes with smartphones and a pack of sim cards, those that are sold illegally. 200 rubles without any official conventions and a metal chip in your pocket. this is exactly what opens the door to scammers, drug dealers and terrorists. uncontrolled access t

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ignored and refused to answer, so it seems that the intrigue continues, everything in the spirit of mark twainumors of death are greatly exaggerated. olga zhurenkova, alexander mostovay, andrey romanov, dmitry manyshev, duty officer part. the chairman of the investigative committee of russia, alexander bastrykin, held an operational meeting on the results of the work of territorial investigative bodies in the first half of 2024. the discussion took place in videoconferencing format, as the head of the administration noted, compared to last year by an employee. it was possible to achieve a reduction in the average investigation time, the number of cases received from the courts for revision was reduced, in addition, the pace of work of investigators to compensate for the damage caused by crimes increased. in moscow, doctors continue provide assistance to almost two dozen shawarma lovers who received severe poisoning. they bought fast food from a small retail outlet that was located not far from the hostel. meanwhile, the security forces are interrogating us from... we are not yet allowed inside

dead and refused to answer, so it looks like there’s an intrigue persists, all in the spirit of mark twainare greatly exaggerated. alexander mostovay, andrey romanov, dmitry manyshev, lead the duty department. headlong towards the development of equestrian sport. after the introduction of sanctions on the transport of foreign horses, more and more domestic stud farms are starting to work at full capacity, and now our horses not only become companions in hippotherapy , help treat serious illnesses and recover from injuries, but also give foreigners a head start in prestigious competitions. report by galina hungureeva. graceful trot ataman steps into the center of the arena, and together with the rider he instantly becomes a single team. under the attentive gaze of the judges, they will demonstrate the art of galloping, trotting and pirouettes. the fact that for the spectators there is beauty, ease of play, for the rider and his pet it is serious work, in order to purely perform all the elements, both must understand each other not even half a word, half a movement. a rider uses his muscles,

. ♪ ♪ >> norah: mark twain once said history does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes, president biden'st as mark strassmann reports and tonight "eye on america," it also echoes and other presidents and another turbulent year, 1968. >> tested many times, this past year or -- >> reporter: revolt add to lyndon johnson in 1968, an unpopular incumbent targeted by fellow democrats. sound familiar? >> 2024 is very reminiscent of 1968 for a variety of reasons. >> reporter: president and ceo of the lbj foundation, spoke about striking parallels between presidents johnson and joe biden and between 1968's america and today's. >> moved to the country, divided, tempestuous, a lot of extreme rhetoric. we had the same thing in 1968 that we were being shaken into our very foundations. >> reporter: especially divisive then, vietnam, america's sons and daughters dying in southeast asia, cbs's news walter cronkite was a turning point. >> it seems now more certain than ever that the bloodied experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate. >> reporter: johnson believed that losing cronkite on vietnam meant

tearing at himself, it looks like a farce, you know, you actually wonder, this nation gave the world mark twain most importantly, no, in fact , from neither side, i don’t hear a clear, clear political program, maybe i i’m wrong, but i don’t really hear anything, nothing, as they say, not from biden’s side, of course, not from trump’s side, these are some general words, but from all of this it follows what dmitry said, i agree with this, but someone else is in control. but it is not presidents who rule the united states and, in principle, what has been said many times, but it just seems to me that conclusions must be drawn from this, conclusions must be drawn from this biden, and what they put forward harris, well, i watched mrs. haris, well this this is a completely strange choice, as they say, but apparently this no one cares, and no one cares why, because it is clear that... he will finish, tomorrow he will say the same as congress said, no, we will continue, this and trump did not fight against this, no, he did not fight, he agreed with this, he immediately agreed with this, although you rem

exaggerated, moreover, the word somewhat sparkled with new meanings in this ancient aphorism of mark twainn was shown to reporters at the beginning of the week, precisely shown, since he never gave detailed comments on the events of recent days. then the american president gave a live speech, although independent decision-making, then who? actually rules the states, such serious concern has arisen in congress about this that deputies are preparing to launch a special investigation and invoke the twenty-fifth amendment, it assumes the resignation of the head of state due to his persistent inability to perform official duties, the main thing expected from biden’s speech was whether he would admit his painful condition or not, the american president or whoever wrote his speech managed to gracefully bypass the sharp edges, he is handing over his candidacy young, because young, they have a road everywhere, i believe that my achievements as president, the role of leader of the whole world, my vision of the future of america give me the right to a second term, but nothing should stand in the way

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mark twain wrote a book called put putting a head wilson that centers around the use of a fingerprint as an identification means for the bureau. it's in the teens and early twenties of the 20th century that it starts to really become useful through much of the 19th century there was a different system that relied on measurements of the human body and various parts of it, and the distance between eyes and things like that. but people's physiognomy changes over time too. people might look very similar, but are very different. people might have no connection whatsoever, whereas fingerprints proved to be much more identifiable with one single person and the fbi, as took over the national collection of fingerprints in 1924, when hoover took over and became the center of the management of that that information system for the u.s. so fbi historian john fox. we look a little grainy what's going on this room is built to look like one of our surveillance setups for for many years we have used situations where we've had to record people doing bad things. back in the 1940s, for instance, we were

in march, at 44, he was awarded the mark twain prize for american humor.with cursing thrown in. he tells stories about his wife and four kids, his embarrassing insecurities and his many shortcomings. on stage, he is an open book. when we sat down with him earlier this year, on one topic at least, he was a bit hard to pin down. you are 5'5". "l.a. times" says you are 5'4". >> gq got it right, 5'5". with a shoe on, a sneaker. if i put a boot on, i can get to 5'5.5". >> 43 years old. i've been 5'5" my whole life. talking about the things that you aren't afraid to laugh at about yourself. i'm confident that the laugh that i'm getting, you are not laughing necessarily at me as if i'm a joke. you are laughing at the experience. a story that is relatable and more importantly, i'm saying things that other people just don't have the heart to say. >> you told a story about your wife watching tall people porn. >> he was taller than me. >> that was your issue? >> why is he so call? is that what you want? we had a real conversation off of that. is that what you are loo

he earned honors including a prime time emmy, golden globe, peabody award and mark twain prize for americanen's attorneys filing a motion to get both of his criminal cases tossed out. he's claiming the appointment of special counsel david weiss is unconstitutional. using the same argument that got the classified documents case against former president trump dismissed, those special counsel jack smith filed an you appealn that case, hunter's lawyers say the same argument should apply to his case. jack smith was appointed by u.s. all merrick garland and not confirmed by congress. david weiss was confirmed by congress as the delaware u.s. attorney before being moved into special counsel by garland. finally, former president trump's son eric trump making an emotional speech at the rnc last night on how his father restored the american dream. watch. >> he restored hope. he restored a voice to millions of americans who had been ignored. he restored the american dream. under my father's leadership, the economy climbed to record heights, jobs were created at an unthinkable pace. unemployment reache

so we had people, for example, like samuel clemens, mark twain, right. who had more of an internationalist anti-imperial perspective. he had traveled through the world and he had considered the theme of imperial power very deeply. it's very interesting that initially when the us declared war against spain to liberate the cubans, he was in favor of the war. but once the treaty of paris that ended the war was signed, he saw that the united states intended to keep the philippines puerto rico. and so he said, he said, this is not what we signed up for and we should not follow this back. this will turn us into an imperial nation and the united states is, by definition, through its own history and anti-imperial and anti-colonial country. and did he write about this? he did write about it. he's very acerbic, biting, acid style. he wrote that the flag that the united states should be raising over the philippines should have the stars replaced with skulls and bones and the stripes, the red and white stripes replaced, replaced with black and white to symbolize the

now this, mark twain has said history doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.eek reelection is certainly historic, but it also echoes another presidents choice in a another turbulent year -- 1968. >> tested many times this past year -- >> revolt clouded lyndon johnson in 1968, and unpopular incumbent. >> 2024 is very reminiscent of 1968 for a variety of reasons. >> historian mark updegrove is president and ceo of the lbj foundation. between 1968's america and today's. >> the country, divided, tempestuous, a lot of extreme rhetoric, we had the same thing in 1968. we were being shaken to our very foundation. >> especially divisive then, vietnam. america's sons and daughters dying in southeast asia. cbs's news walter was the most trusted man in america declared the more unwinnable. >> there will be the experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate. >> johnson believed losing vietnam meant his reelection was unwinnable. in march 1968, he quit the race. >> i shall not see and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> he say

here's you getting the mark twain award from president obama. >> yes. [ cheers and applause ] in the, and he gave me a trophy. look at my face. i'm all fanning out, all happy and grinning. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what did he say to you? do you remember what he said? >> you know what he said me? the picture we're standing face-to-face. and he asked me, he was like, "so, what kind of rinse do you use in your hair?" because my hair i was like black. [ laughter ] and i was like -- i was like what? >> jimmy: what kind of rinse? >> "what kind of rinse are you using?" [ laughter ] and i said, "i don't use any rinse." and his hair was salt and pepper. so he was like -- >> jimmy: what kind of rinse are you -- >> it's like, "wait a minute." and i said, "actually, mr. president. you're actually -- i'm actually three months older than you. you're, like, born in august." and he's like, "that's not making me feel any better." [ laughter ] >> that's another great picture i wish i had. [ laughgter ] >> jimmy: i'm giving you all of these on the way -- on the way out. >> yeah, he had just -- who did he

and the hometown of mark twain in missouri celebrates tom sawyer day with a fence painting race and frog york city, of course, we have the annual nathan's hot dog eating contest is going to kick off on coney island, but without 16-time champion joey chestnut. the legendary eater will join us later this morning as he prepares to compete against four u.s. army soldiers in texas. we want to know what are your favorite independence day traditions? send us your photos at friends friends@foxnews.com. i can't wait to see how all of are you celebrating with your beautiful families. >> lawrence: i'm telling you, carley, i'm missing barbecue today. texas barbecue and new york barbecue is a little different. >> carley: kind of like new york bagels different other place. i see what you are saying. >> carley: we have to fly some up for you. >> kayleigh: hot dogs are all the same. >> carley: dirty water dog no matter what is just as sweet. >> kayleigh: it is so good. speaking of hot dogs head down to coney island where fox news meteorologist adam klotz is live with our july fourth fox weather forecast

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mark twain said that the cold this winter he had the summer in san francisco for san francisco to had have that heat advisory right now. you get the point. we are going to really took over the next several days. back to you. >> all right. thank you. and the dangers with fires, of course, in july 4th on the way, a 7 acre brush fire. this one broke out in concord. images on the cal fire camera were from 02:40am. and you can see the fire very active and look at the way the wind was blowing it. here's the concern. this is at the line. ridge open space. conde fire believes this started due to fireworks. they talk to neighbors and they heard and saw fireworks in that area and then the fire broke out. same situation also in the east bay with this fire that broke out last night at grizzly peak in berkeley. let's take a look at that fire. this is near centennial drive in grizzly peak boulevard. there's the a big fire response that turned out to hit hard because they don't want these fires to spread multiple agencies responded there in the dark. it put it out pretty quickly. but again, they thi

mark twain, for example, contributed to that booklet. she went to her emma lazarus, who is a poet and had gained some fame for her poetry that was bringing to light the plight of refugees from the russian pogroms and said, you know, would write a poem. and emma lazarus thought this was just a kind of scheme of ego. she didn't think much of it, apparently. and and so she said no. and then the friend said, well, what if you think of those refugees? so she back she went away. she came back and she gave that poem. and the poem then published the next day in the newspaper and people really loved it. but then it just there was no sign of it. emma lazarus died a basically a year later and then it was some years later when when the friend decided to put it on a plaque, the statue of liberty, and paid for that. even then, it wasn't really no one paid attention to it. it wasn't until. journalist in around 1950 saw it and wrote about it and it started to have more meaning to people. so so it's it really is, you know, encompasses way we think of the

while traveling through france, mark twain took a train into the city., the writer realized that he had passed by dejon, he was very angry, he... ran to the conductor and began to reprimand him, i have never been as angry as i am now, he shouted, the conductor replied: “you are not as angry as that american whom i dropped off in dejon at night." what doesn't happen? svyatoslav yeshchenko often tells us funny stories from life, and the authors of these stories elevate them to the grotesque to make it more fun for us. it was, i’m an accidental oligarch, of course, there’s a lot of money, money is everywhere on me, on the refrigerator and in the wardrobe and in mattress, here, but you know, still unhappy in this world, i also have misfortune, just before the new year , my faithful companion, my nest egg, left my life. this is a bunch of diamonds, god knows how many carats, i hid them from my wife deep on the mezzanine, in old hunting boots, imagine, boots full of diamonds, i come home in the evening, december 31st, my heart didn’t just skip a beat, it skipp

>> well, remember what was it mark twain said, i don't belong no organized group. i'm a democrat the fact is that that's the nature of our party and that there's different voices saying different things all the time. and so mark warner's fluids within his rights it's due to say whatever he's going to say and to make the call these calling people like me however, i saying mark, you're on the wrong track, you come to the wrong conclusion here and we need to move forward with our nominee, joe biden ambassador qarrah moseley braun, always appreciate having a conversation with you. thank you so much for being with get me this morning thank you. >> thank you for having me are the message from some democrats right now. >> don't say we didn't warn you. i'll speak with one progressive who says their fight should not be about replacing president biden, but about the leader. she says, put the party in this situation i voted buttons dragging my rainbow kid. >> it's like your generation has evolved past traditional political symbols. and there's room for everyone. >> yeah puke r

alive today and the next book so many of us had to read it the adventures of huckleberry finn or mark twain, the controversy about it too. i think that book will always it was born in controversy and will stay in controversy forever. it was born in controversy. less really about racial dynamics, which i'll mention in a moment. but just that he had young huck jim, you know, saying playing dirty pranks and being a a little bit immoral or being, you know, teenagers getting into trouble. and so for people that wanted, you know, moral rectitude in a book, you weren't finding it in. twain's adventures of huckleberry finn. and at the time, it also has a a real connotation on race. and then twain's mindset of that era when he wrote it, that it was showing hopkins jim coming from different kinds of of oppression and huck. so i mean, father and in jim's case, growing up enslaved but they become and forge a friendship and form a dynamic duo as they go now the mississippi why it's today though is because the n-word is used it quite a bit and some people want it banned because of the use that you know s

they don't get as foul as mark twain or as dark as steinbeck sometimes does.s brutal as "uncle toms cabin and beloved. i absolutely think her books should be taught more. host: jesse, thank you for coming in. in fact, "depth comes to the arch british hop is from his area in the country, isn't it." guest: it is, it is. "my antonia" is actually a pretty dark book. lots of dark things happen. it's kind of episodic, not plotted like a traditional novel and every once in a while these dark and gruesome things happen. tough story of the couple that they throw the bride and groom to the wolves. antonia is at her home ask they're eating popcorn and tachi and suddenly she tells the story of a tramp who throws himself into a thrashing machine. it's really pretty dark. antonia is going to be sexual assaulted by her employer but jim goes to stay there instead so she ends up being saved by that experience but then she ends up being lured into a man into not marriage and finds herself in -- without support back on the family farm. host: from claim payne, illinois, please --

mark twain's novel huck finn was published in 1880 four.oems by emily dickinson was published in 1890. frederick jackson turner's the frontier in american history was published in 18. the red badge of courage by stephen crane was released in 1895. it was there during the civil war. peter: all of those books are available on the website c-span.org/books that shaped america. you can see the entire list at the library of congress -- that the library of congress came up with there. next call is stephen in west palm beach, florida. stephen, go ahead. >> can you hear me? peter: we are listening. >> mr. rosen, which you are calling, and i'm sure many lawyers called his pragmatism is what i called sedition. i'm wondering, for example, and it doesn't surprise me, i didn't realize until now, i have forgotten that theodore roosevelt was the one that appointed him to supreme court because mr. roosevelt didn't seem to have too much concern about the constitution either. and i'm sure you know what i mean. i was saying that one of the things i was thinkin

so but it's like mark twain line history doesn't repeat but it does run a lot but i think in garfield's life, he was such wonderful writer. i'm sorry i didn't get a chance to talk about it right here, but he was proof that all of these things that we call unprecedented and all of these events and that we call the president, it's actually not that unprecedented in ways both reassuring, because we've through it before and now, because we've through it before and then second, i think he's a very good view in his politics of what it looks like when a pathologically person is in power in washington in both good ways and bad. somebody is obsessed with keeping political enemies, personal friends, who just wants the systems of our government to continue and who's trying to resist divisive spirits. you get a very complicated and almost chimera of a man that results in a kind of area of a time. and so his legacy is incredibly complex, but he was a wonderful figure to write about and to research. i want to end with this. when he was on his deathbed, this is when he got moved to the new jersey coas

mark twain history doesn't repeat itself but it does arrive. as mr. m fmp ume was describing the late jackson lee and her admiration and respect for barbara jordan, first black woman to be elected from the state of texas, reminded of the story which is that at the end of her life, congresswoman jordan, she had a bone deep devotion to the constitution, bone deep faith in the constitution which was shown in congress and particularly during the watergate proceedings. in 1996 when barbara jordan passed away and searching through her belongings they found in her purse a copy of the u.s. constitution. and i could see as clear as day right now, our friend judge jackson lee on the judiciary lee where myself and others served with her, i could see her holding the constitution out as she is questioning different witnesses that came through that committee. judge lee's faith of devotion and commitment to the constitution was bone deep. and to hear representative mfume describe his conversations with her as she asked him about the great barbara jordan, it's beyond

our wars under theodore roosevelt and pursuing american empire, there were people at the time, mark twainery prominent among them saying we're doing the thing that we hated the crown for doing. at each moment in american history where you have the fights and infrastructures over what the meaning of democracy actually is, there are contemporaries on each side of the debate. it's not this neat arc where we start out sort of confused and beknighted and don't understand that slavery is wrong but then we sort of walk into the light. no, they knew. they knew. they knew the trail of tears was wrong. they knew that the wars in the pacific and the philippines, what we were doing, they knew it was wrong. there are people who very clearly saw what it was. and that's true at every point. and it's true up until the period in the run-up to world war ii. now that story we learned is basically the following. because of the trauma of world war i, the u.s. is very reticent to get involved in another war on european shores. fair. and we kind of dither, and fdr comes up with lend lease, right. this is like t

signed this beautiful precious address to his imperial majesty alexander i, emperor of all russia, mark twain and beautiful, here kir lvovna, i don’t know, appeal to such documents, beautiful, important, with such words forever, forever, i swear, and so on, of course this... this is a fairly well-known american philosopher, an ideologist, in fact, of this modern american hegemony, and at the end of the 19th century he wrote a phrase that was heartbreaking by modern standards, which looks something like this: that the british, who colonized north america, must do everything so that in the future all the states of the world would become. set themselves a task, we said, oh, not there, well, someone specific, they must create a great american novel, they created it, they have this approach, apparently, yes, apparently, this something is a national trait, they really created the great american novel, they set the task, they created it, now they decided to create it, that is, in the same mode, in approximately the same style, in the same modality they formulated that they should do and do with the