... the necessity of our belief in it-is a superhuman entity at all. It is merely extra-human, and might possibly be, morally speaking, infra- human. The theory, for instance, of a s vision in Satan is speculatively quite as tenable as that of a vision ...

... cantabile music equally within her resources. Of Mdme. Trebelli- Bettini's performance as Lady Nancy it is scarcely necessary to speak. She has for many years past been absolutely identified with the personage; and the music of the part seems to belong to her ...

... construction. They extended the principle to matters analogous to those declared by the statute. IThe Statute of Gloucester, in speaking of London, was considered to include all cities and boroughs. The Statute of Richard II., which forbade the Warden of the ...

... a work of danger. In the concluding lines of his imitation of Juvenal's first satire, Mr. Rogers must be understood to be speaking wholly as a paraphrast, and his resolve to deal only with those who lie within the walls Of Peter's crowded abbey and St ...

... is apt to suggest to English lawyers. It differs, indeed, from the form a code might assume only in such minor points as speaking in the indicative rather than the imperative. Being intended to give a practical view of existing law, it purports not to ...

... dignity of the Exhibition could demand. Of the two hundred and fifty-five paintings, less than one hundred are in the market. I speak very far within bounds when I say that the American collection itself can show no such proportions of what may be called the ...

... best ! ' But hearken ! the voice of a third, Of a third with a cloud on his brow: Not here ! not now! Should our England speak the word That will waken the roar of her guns And whiten the sea 'neath the war-ship's prow. Be silent, remember our shame ...

... equivalent for the Hebrew Elohim and Greek Theos is given differently, on apparently equal authority. The odes do not speak of the worship which was paid to their God, unless it be incidentally; but of the ceremonies at the sacrifices in the Royal ...

... how is it ever to be established by a Chinese inquiry? Unless, indeed, Li Hsieh-Tai, seeing he was to be sacrificed, were to speak out. In which case, or if there were any danger of it, one would not give much for his life. The Chinese, however, know perfectly ...

... as a language that Mr. Leland gives it in his preface. It is abundantly plain that he has never mixed among Pidgin-English-speaking Chinamen, or he would be aware of the extremely limited power of expres. sion of which it is capable. Anything like a sustained ...

... nature. But too much stress has always been laid upon this, and Mr. Church does not quite escape the con- ventional style of speaking on the subject. The ordinary flattery of a Roman Emperor, of which we find so much in Roman literature, was as much a matter ...

... iccabularies. We have no clearer notion at the end of the book than at the beginning of what is really meant when the writer speaks of a rational self in the form of will, of self-realization as the aim of morality, and of affirmation, negation, and attempts ...