... Grammar is a knowledge of the rules, by observing which the English Language is spoken and written correctly. Now, we may speak of Grammar as an art or a science, but not as a i1o7wedge. The same clumsiness is to be found in many of the other definitions ...

... the sky revolves So help min God in death's dismay. Of the tragedy as a whole, it is perhaps hardly necessary that ee should speak. We dismiss all stage rules in judging of a production which is meant only fur the closet, and are content to put up with wvant ...

... has in view; and he holds in still less esteem those who presume to think that works of art should be estimated as such. Speaking of 1 the poor jaded back of the Spectator and other ' such small criics, lie san:- Thcse miserable effigies of critics ...

... wvorkl an additional charm. The simplicity of his cpistolar-y style--the unpretending daily notices contain- ed in his diary---speak so distinctly clod directly from thre writer to thre reader-, that we feel at once we have him presented to uts ais lie was ...

... to wait tili the animals which had come to driuL should have thoroughly gorged them- selves; wvhen they were, generally speaking, easily knocked over fom my place of concealment. I have, however, some- times been so thoroughly fagged on taking up my ...

... roady to swarif wi' friclht, When they stopp'd at the Loch o' Skone. There a fearfnl ban upon himi ho laid, tf he offerd to speak, or to turn his head, He would sleep that nidet in a dreary bed, In the touch o' the Loch o' Skeno. Syne, as o'er the lee wP' ...

... Professor Wilson, who pro- posed to rend hin, and said lie fancied l he was both better and worse than Carlyle-Inigher and lower. Speaking of thle French revclution, brought Carle up again. The professor objected to his ineessant iault-findling with the appearances ...

... which has frequently beeis questioned, but in which Ave are inclined to think he has the right side of the argument-tlat in speaking, the voice ranges between tones of various acute- ness and gravity, and might be regulated on principles as seientifie as ...

... are in-harmiony with her own beauty of body anil of mind ; unconscious grace governs every noioii,-the ring's -I daughter speaks in die unaffected dignity of her demeanonr,---she resi ai feels no distrust because she has known-no sorrow. Miss Faucit s ...

... withoutpr classifying aud comparing thorn, or deducing from them sound infer- Dal - oces, is not ?? is meant, plstlosophically speaking, by oba~ *a- pro EI, tion. This coarse, wbolesele mamier of taking cognizance of- fsets-by the ton -as it were-though it ...

... The: soul-murdering systern of national ignorance. We cannot refrain from qrloting the eloquent conclusion It is fetile to speak of the principles of Knox and Melville. H[ad Kinox lived in our day. he would probably-without, of' course, abancinning nise ...

... sprightly brethren, if I give my vote for the innocent hare above all other game. The modern Nimrod says;:- For our own part, speaking as fox-hunters, yet abandoning all prejudices against a sport it is too much the fashion to hold cheap, we consider that ...