... it up, and on glancing at the first page of it, lie found it was the Bible, with the name of Thomas Muir written upon it. He was struck with astonishment. Thomas Muir was his early schoolfellow and companion ! He had heard of some part of his subsequent ...

... A Description of the Close Rolls in the Tower of London, with an Account of the early Courts of Law and Equity. By Thomas Duffus Hardy. Nearly three years have elapsed since the present Record Com- mission was formed. It has received three annual Par ...

... uniforms-I, only wear these bottle-greens until they come. And praywhat ship are you going to join ? The Die-a-maid-Captain Thomas Kirkwall Savage. The Diomede-I say, Robinson, a'n't that the frigate in which the midshipmen had four dozen a-piece for ...

... reasonings on it, but to interest the'reader by a few pleasant extracts, in the continued struggles and successes of these hardy and true-hearted moun taineers, who have shown such a noble sense of tile inestimable blessings of liberty, in the glorious ...

... would purge his next edition of it. We are not acquainted with any writer of eminence who uses it thus-except perhaps Sir Thomas Browne; and sad would be the confusion, if all the phrases of that learned knight were emptied into our English dictionaries ...

... him: Seaton was one in whom, in common hours, The World was strong: he lived in its loud life, A homely man of strong, keen, hardy powers, Pleas'd in ifts joys. exulcing in its strife: He reverenced Gold, not for the end so much As for the stirring means ...

... Jerrold. With twenty-four illustrations by Kenny Meadows. Orr and Co. Mr Jerrold reminds his readers of the saying of Sir Thomas Browne, that a laugh there is of con- tempt or indignation, as well as of mirth or joco- sity. Punch's laugh in these letters ...

... reduced settler. We stumble over fatal difficulties before we arrive at that which may possibly be the worst of all-the climate. Hardy and resolute as Colonel Campbell seems to be, he was obliged to give in at last, and came home-a martyr to the ague. It is ...

... and some of the properties of the camel, yields also a good and marketable flesh: a well-flavoured mutton. It is moreover hardy and easily fed. And Mr Walton, an experienced judge, is so thoroughly persuaded that its natural- ization in this country would ...

... life. See what character there was in the easy way the good Sir Thomas made his noble gift to the city, and in the resolute clutch with which the shrewd citizens grasped at it. Sir Thomas Gresham was too wise a man to be extra- vagantly devoted to the ...

... hospi- tality to Great Britain; and it should be seen to in the next Useful Knowledge edition of the Vulgar Errors of Sir Thomas Brown. wWe may lhave been hospitable, perchance, in the days when we had only hips, haws, and acorns to set before our guests ...

... to business demanded his vicinity to town, bent his fancy to the repossession of Hayes, which he had sold to my cousin, Mr Thomas Walpole. The latter, under great inquietude, showed me letters he had received from Lady Chatham, begging in the most pathetic ...