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... broadly and lirgely at the subject of Holy Scripture, espe- cially of the Scriptures of the older dispensatios, wbich are, so to speak, farther from the eye, snd should never allow themselves to be won away from that bhoad and large con- templation into discussions ...

JOKES AND CONCEITS

... when be alludes to a card bearing the legend To let. The term Sheeny for a Jew has been credited to Thackeramy, who speaks of Sheeny and 2loses. But now a writer comes forth with the declaation that this somewhat vulgar slang word occurred Ut ...

LITERARY CURIOSITIES

... to heavenly bodies, -which cause good or evil timfe, and rerich hfare ?? senverattho., but no rest.- Of Emniire. Burke, in speaking of the morals of France prior to the Pte-olution, says- Vice itself Icst hali its evil by losing all its grossness. Ihis ...

NORTHUMBERLAND PIPE AND BALLAD MUSIC

... jumped aboot on the deck, An' the skipper roar'd oot he wad sure smasoh his neck. What for, says the Pee-dee, can one not speak a wor~lt So he gas him a kick-knock'd him plump owerboard. Then nyen o' the bullies e'er lost a bit time, But dung their greet ...

SELECT READINGS

... incidents, fitted to quell the turbulent motions of corrupt affections under dismal outward appearances.—Boston. War. —What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net-purport and upshot of war ? To my knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil in ...

VICTOR OR VICTIM

... 'etter times. Here the wretched creature remembered her wretched- ness, and began to weep in a maudlin fashion, befoie again speaking,- Only to think now, that I should meet my best, my dearest old school-girl friend, in this strange way, and to feel she ...

0UT OF EDEN: A NOVEL

... understand me, aed I do not wish to speak to him on subjects that I hope are for ever forgotten and hidden now. But rather than this foolish affair should go on, I would break that silence l Florence, I am speaking the truth-do not drive me to do what ...

WIT AND HUMOUR

... interview with the great Sea Serpent is Slocum for Slocum, read Joke'em. Look before Yod Speak. —Asking a lady what her accomplishments are, is, generally speaking, harmleas enough. Still, in these days, it might in some cases cause embarrassment to put ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... will be followed by a united empire, embracing in its rule all who speak the Eng- lish tongue. He bases his arguments for the truth of this upon the recent. reuniou of the German-speaking race, and 'the threatened amalgamation of the Solavonio tribes. ...

SELECT READINGS

... becomes more nwre frisky and more and morei nquisitiw. lt mistake not to reserved in the presence of children; ordinary people speak and act (especially servants) if they were not there. Before they can talk, we fancy item blind and deaf; when they talk, believe ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... he regards his own suggestiou of the beginnieg of life, and compare it with nris emphio disnissal of what, scientifically speaking, seemis to be the only alrerna- tive theory. This is how he disposes of evolution .- I am ready to adopt as an article ...

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ON THE WRITINGS OF TOLSTOY

... literary onthe- siasms-narnoly, his devotion for the writings of Lyof Tolstoy, William Dean Hovells says:- I should vwish to speak of him with his own incompar- ablo troth, yet I do not know how to give a noatri of his infuence vwithoue the * ffect of e ...