... spectator by olouding tbs water in which they lire by their ink.” Some of the large tanka contain fine specimena of the jelly-fish, and moat beautiful of all, are many living specimens of the red coral of commerce. A cricket match of a novel description ...

... There are undeniable drawbacks in the first climb, when your legs seem to bo the consistency your ancestor, the primeval jelly-fish; when your heart throbs as you were proposing to the object of your devotion ; when your breathing recalls the plaintive ...

... forsake the Rock to attempt in vain to fasten our frail bark upon the quicksands, where glitter forms impalpable as the jellyfish which every storm casts upon our shores Mr. Abbott goes on to say that the retort of this * Through Nature to Chriet; or ...

... to be “ with ancestors !” are not to suppose : that in his cooler moments Mr. Huxley would ' really prefer the state of jellyfish to that of angel. Mr. Anthony Trollope, better form and with mure reason, combats the perverse philanthropy of the champions ...

... and worship. Its members have right to know what its ministers are set to teach. A Church which is mere boneless body like jelly-fish on tbs shore—(laughter)—a colourless, bloodless, creedless pantheon, in which everv one is right who is in earnest, and ...

... creed without a dogma is like an animal without a skeleton. The systems to which we have referred are so many spiritual jelly-fishes. Each and every one is a system of formless, gratuitous, self-complacent optimism, reducible to a petUio principii far ...

... upon the subject. His whole style, appearance, and manner fully corroborated the suitability, of the illustration of the “jellyfish ’’ recently applied to him and bis colleagues by the Duke of He and Lord Shkbbrooxx sat near the Lord President during the ...

... strange Government it was) To what should liken it? Should be liken it to what one of their colleagues described it—as a jellyfish—(laughter)—or should be liken it to the very clever band of strolling musicians depicted in Puxck, and who seemed to playing ...

... and polite oblivion of the chronic feebleness of the past It was clearly doubted whether you could put backbone into the Jellyfish Ministry. u Turn them ‘'out” was the course that the meeting urged, and there little doubt that the meeting represented the ...

... n which was given of the Government by one who, when he took leave of them, described them asa jellyfish Administration. (Cheers and laughter). A jellyfish hod no backbone, no muscle, no independent action. floated upon the tide, and was wafted whithersoever ...

... had conquered, prepares men to expect any dereliction of principle on the part of so plastic a statesman. The largest of jellyfishes, lightly has Lord Derby cast in his lot with the invertebrate Cabinet immortalised by the Duke of Argyll. Of all the de ...

... was before their late colleague, the Duke of Argyll, or somebody else—but the answer received was “Because they were all jelly-fishes' (loud laughter and cheers). Ido not use such disrespectful language as that. Well, but as 1 said, that really was very ...