... farina could not be a substitute for the potato. When deprived, by the process, of the fibre and gluten, it is, properly speaking, starch; and who would propose to give even the starch of wheat as substantial food to the people? The only way to preserve ...

... choose to be flattered. Cleanthes, with a superiority of repartee well as charity replied, Is it flattery to say that you speak one thing and do another? Making One's Self Agreeable.—An old salt, just returned from cruise, was roaming full of fun and ...

... organs, as of sight for instance, may lead us back to the scenes of chiidhood and youth—may cause us to live over again, so to speak, the hours of enjoyment have spent days long since passed away—and awaken the most delightful anticipations of that futurity ...

... them, and often threatens them with instantly being engulphed, they will have their joke out. Now no one could hear the other speak, such was the force of the storm. You could feel the ship almost lifted along. The scene was grand; no pen could describe it; ...

... robbery was in progress; but they were either too young to give the alarm, durst not attempt it. The audacity of this actio speaks to the desperate and daring character of those who perpetrated it: and, to guard against a recurrence of such loss and outrage ...

... and it was utterly enslaved; and it is existing at the present moment under Government of which will not trust myself to speak, because I do not wish to say anything which it would be unbecoming English public man to say regarding the proceedings of ...

... mistress. a storm, his style sinks and swells with the billow; ami the masts are toppling and crashing overboard, yon hear speaking, like the captain through his trumpet, above wild turmoil waters, introductions are leaden and dreary, —his dialogues spun ...

... sacred; and hence the name Applccross. Tho parish lies on the west coast—is thinly peopled—and its inhabitants, generally speaking, poor. Like Shieldaig, Applccross is very remote, and suffers considerably from the want of post-office accommodation. The ...

... tlie feeling: less warning than convincing his auditors. Fanatics call his sermonsMtM. Careful preparation essential to his speaking with effect, which is the more noticeable) because in conversation he is able to handle a given subject with acuteness and ...

... Monsieur look down, then. A cold air, laden with earthy smell, falls upon the face of Monsieur: for she has opened, while speaking a SaS-door in tho wall. Monsieur looks Downward to the bottom, upward to the top, of a steep, dark, lofty towert very dismal ...

... of our editorial duties, we have, in previous numbers of the Herald, touched upon more than one of those landmarks, so to speak, of our stationary state, which we have preserved amongst us, and which other communities are enabled, as it were, to measure ...

... been hurt. There is scarcely a street in it which does not bear testimony to the violence of the gale.—The Perth papers also speak of the severity of the storm in that town. ...