... march of fashion, what old Divines would call the wicked wastefulness our costly apparel.” There have been the Brothers of St. John, the Knights of the Temple, and the Teutonic Order, all famous in their day. hut now left far away among the things that were ...

... repealers—sounded Lord Melbourne, echoed by Lord John Russell, and yelped discordantly by every mongrel in the pack. Ob, it was of a piece with that other beautiful pass-word, finality,” of which Lord John, calling himself Reformer, had the exclusive and ...