... composer in the technical sense of the term. A man whose brains can never suffer from mental exertion has no brains at all worth speaking about. Look at the case 'of poor Haydn. In consequence of writing the Seasons immediately after the Creation, he lost to ...

... the traffic on the lines of the non-publishing railway companies, it is found the excess of traffic in 1853 over 1852 is, speaking in round numbers, about two millions; The results of the past eight yearsshow ?? is railway traffic. In 1846 the railways ...

... Singapore. In the year 18i8 Sir James Brooke became governor of Labuan. On the N 15th of June, 1852, Mr. Sidney Herbert, speaking on the Labuan estimates, expressed him- self in terms which Sir James Brooke thought it desirable to notice. A few days later ...

... often, particularly the about the oaks, some of which I would discard to make way t of for the rest. iemta But thesubjects I speak of, to compensate (and more thon compensate) that unavoidable poverty, have one great cor advautage when they fall into good ...

... companion; and was of opinion, with many others, that so stupid a fellow could [never have written so clever a book. Addison, speaking of his own deficiency in con- versation, used to say of himself that, with respect to intellectual wealth, he could draw ...

... point, in behalf of the opposite fae- e tion. ' You complain,' said tiey, ' that we have stolen your p horses ! While you are speaking the blood of our young men whom you have slain is yet warmn; their scalps are not y dry that you took from us. You say that ...

... -by drawing a fhadkerchief from his pocket, turning away his face, and ejaculating, Ah, heavens ! I pray you, before you speak, take this handkerchief. W hy ? replies Dorina. To cover that bosom ; so that I may not see it. The figure and the averted ...

... mountain stream in the middle distance, and to the left, on a steep cliff, an ancient round tower partly covered with moss, and speaking of the days of raids and reivers. Mr. Mlelling contributes (Ne. 365) a view of the African Ooast near Tangiers-in the distance ...

... a ir hundrcd futhoms above a great river, whose roaring amongst 0 the stones was such that we could not hear one another a speak.' At night they rested in a shied open to every wind tof hejaven, and in a lofty region where they were so cold that ithey ...

... the secession of Formes. What may have occasioned it we are not aware. Possibly, pecuni. ary considerations; but of this we speak without any gua- rantee' In certain characters he was unequalled. His de- lineation of Leporello was strictly German; we shall ...

... case of our own species:- I I believe there is a dialect in the songs of birds. We kow. that local circumstances, or, to speak withs more science, theat a Peculiar state or phase of, mind, where it is coeaftlnld fosi unse tinra to a particular district ...

... worshipful House of pri Commons proposed to have him pilloriedandflogg, Ba [nearly or quite to death. It was dangerous to speak ob~ evil of dignities in those times. ml Have we not all seen the castle of Heidelberg, on dif the Neckar, one of the points ...