... out in a score of measures, with something of the music that wine may have made to his ear as it gurgled from the bottle. He speaks, now and then, of such troubles as vexatious lawsuits, and scolding wives, and tristes malheurs qui travaillent la France ...

... remarks, however, apply of course only or chiefly to monographs -upon more or less minute sections of jurisprudence-twigs, so to speak, rather than branches of the law. No writer would be likely to attempt so large and important a subject as, for instance ...

... authorities have placed the famous Ophir of King Solomon. One of the earliest, perhaps, of the many drifts from Central Asia, speaking, like the Chinese, one of those monosyllabic tone-languages in which change of accent conveys difference of sense, servants ...

... itself unconsciously in the genr e painting of their work. They both counted too anxiously on being widely appreciated not to speak to the senti- ments of the multitude. To advance farther into a comparison between these two men, contemporaries and yet strangers ...

... his art have produced the singular ease and spon- taneity which are seen in all his performances; but it is worth while to speak in some detail of the faults which he struB with and overcame at the outset of his career, as no 0016 seeing him now could ...

... of the first duties of knightly honour? But he seems to have queer notions about the institutions of chivalry, e.g., he speaks of the squire as a churl, and mikes him a married man. Whereas a squire, and therefore a future knight, must have been of ...

... riding to hounds, or tasting again of my best bottle. Bad enough job it be about old Squire, but he be an old man in a way of speaking. Well, the Lord He knoweth best, and us be all in the hollow of His hand. But he were a fine young fellow, as fine a young ...

... 000 odd. Well, I have no doubt the Treasurer of this Fund would be content with very much less; but I am sure, seriously speaking, that if these boxes were put up in every Theatre in London a very great deal of money might be got in a legitimate way for ...

... army authorities are but acting upon the opinion of the greatest leader of modern days F Did not Napoleon Bonaparte say, speaking of English soldiers, it is a good thing there are not more of them? [From the Hornef.j THE BALANCE OF POWcR.-Politicians ...

... was charming in her malicious bashfulness, and sang very delicately the music of her part. Simon-Max, of whom I have had to speak recently in terms of praise, con6irmed the favourable impression he then made upon me, his singing and acting as the middy ...

... moreover, Mr. Van Laun wished to speak of Da Ponte's libretto at all, he should have pointed out that he has very judiciously omitted the return supper given in all previous versions by the statue to Don Juan. Speaking of the scandal caused by Sganareile's ...

... the centuries whose annals are recorded in history. During the last five-and-twenty years war has never left Europe, not to speak of other quarters of the globe, and in that period we have witnessed four memorable struggles in -one or another of which all ...