... upon a useless war with the dictionary, and dethrone one word to set up another A flat. Sermons.—The Rev. Sydney Smith, in speaking the prosy nature of certain sermons, said, •' They are written as if were to be token out of man like Eve out of Adam, by ...

... all but starving needlewoman, to say nothing of the toiling artisan, or still worse off peasant, needs no illustration—it speaks trumpet-tongued in condemnation of the tax. The statesman, the philanthropist, and the moralist, will here alike find ample ...

... I keep his nails in order for him. Twice a week. Fingers and toes He pays well, I hope said Steerforth. Pays as he speaks my dear child—through the nose, replied Miss Mowcher. None of your close shavers the Prince ain't. You'd say so, if you ...

... Herbert Hill's sketch of him in the year 1796:— He is very good scholar, of great reading, of an astonishing memory ; when he speaks he does it with fluency, with a great choice of words. He is perfectly correct in his behaviour, of the most exemplary morals ...

... inadequacy is pregnant with dangers which may be more easily obviated in their infancy than conquered in their maturity. We speak only of Scotland, and this limited aspect of the paramount subject of popular instruction, we risk not the imputation of e ...

... offices envy the one next the fire-place; and men from behind counters hardly think themselves repaid by being called out to speak to a countess in her chariot; and the wheezy and effeminate pastry cook, hatless and aproned, and with his hand in his breeches ...

... for we can mak nocht o' ye here. On another occasion the advocate, in stating his case before the same judge, happened to speak of itinerant violinist. D'ye mean a blin' fiddler? asked Lord Newton. Vulgarly so called, my Lord, answered the triumphant ...

... speaker's fancy. The bill before the House may for the better regulation of the post-office, but that does not deter a member speaking upon it from commencing with the discoveries of Columbus, and ending with the political exigences of his own township. This ...

... Music.—lt is great mistake to suppose that the best-music is the most difficult of execution. The very reverse, generally speaking, is the case. Music of a high order certainly demands high gifts and attainments on the part of the performer j but the gifts ...

... and joy, all walked. And now, from day to day, and hour to hour, The brightness our summer-life grows dim; The voice that speaks to us from far already, Soon iv the distance shall be heard no more. The perfect circle of this pleasant life Hath lost its ...

... the commons he has no party, because there is no party there ; and if there were, he has withdrawn from party conflict; he speaks as from his own mind ; and his words have singular weight. He sits in the legislature a man free from personal aims of every ...

... expressed her conviction that she had seen his face before. O ! yes, ma'am, replied Professor Sedgwick, don't you remember speaking to a man on the road, asking him how many children he had, and giving him a shilling? Here it is continued he, pulling the ...