... art of public speaking. When we speak our sermons-which may be said to be our charac- teristic national fashion-we speak them, it may be, with too much harsh, strong, boisterous bellowing, and convulsive wriggling on occasions; but we speak often with a ...

... any whiskers 1 Thomp- son (after careful examination). Well, sir, I really don't think as you ever will-leastways not to speak of ! Young Swell. That's rather hard, for my Pap-I inean Governor-has plenty ! Thompson (facetiously). Yes, sir,-but ...

... Of WI. Vieuxtemps, whose merits as a violinist of the first rank are so widely known and appreciated, it is unnecessary to speak for- ther than that he performed with all his wonted ability and success. M. Lamoury, on the violon- cello, displayed fine ...

... compositions of either ]3ossini or Bel- aln. i Mldlle. Titiens' conception of the Duchess was really an artistic triumph. We speak at present more of her acting than of her singing. The scene in the prologue in which she is unmasked by Maffio Orsini, her ...

... ancient and modern warfare. -le described at length the principle of the an- eient battering-rain, catapult, &c., and went on to speak of the javelin, the bow and arrow, and other instruments used in warfare in past times. Be then gave a brief history of the ...

... purse. But we are sick of these comparisons, and will carry them no farther—to do so were a work of su- pererogation—they speak for themselves in a language that cannot be misunderstood by enlightened and impartial men. If a Scotch Secretaryship were ...

... effusions of the Poet seemed to evaporate in a sort of unmeaving and not very euphonious plaiat. it is painful to be compelled to speak in these terms of a stranger, baz we could come to no other conclusion, and the audience, with every wish to be indulgent, ...

... who of sent me, He gave me a commandment whlat I should ds say, and what I should speak; and whatever I a speak, therefore, even as the Father said. unto me, i so I speak.' Bishop Colenmo cannot maintain his ground without going much farther than he hat ...

... any vocalist. The key-B flat major--is ad- mirably suited to the pawky way in which Mr Ballantine gets his quaint lover to speak of the charms of Linton Lowrie. ...

... blown. He ?? to the window, and ,on the hills of Braid Saw the Sedttish army southwards vcoel with flash- ing.hdlm and blade. Speak, 1der before yon sunshine fades along the 'wescaan sky I go to jii my king ! no sign, no murmur of rept - Wth ay wge of grief ...

... rendered with a degroe of skill not certainly inferior to anythinig of the kind we have lately listened to, and that gene- rally speaking, the vocalisation wvas strikingly effective, our readers will understand why it was that an Edinburgh audience, usually so ...

... the / transformed into lea, &e. Cer- inly such blunders are les repens bot cn a Pa less so. The au « The hy instance, when speak ing of the i calls them les hautes Volailles, meani ay, of has thet of poultry ; and the passage in which this gross blunder ...