... strength and judgment and power of reasoning, as well as solidity of character and determination of purpose while the Celts are dis- tinguished by more vivid imagination, more brilliant wit, finer taste, and deeper pathos. These constitute the poetical element ...

... childhood played, Soon as the little task was done,f In the calm sequestered shade And the earlier friends beloved so well. (Alas to think that friendship dies I) Where do their gentle spirits dwell, I ask-but none replies. No voice, except the breeze, As ...

... prevented him making effectual exertions to save himself. The body of the poor lellow has not yet been recovered. He was much beloved, and the sad interest respecting his fate is increased by the fact of his having died in view ot his native land, which, after ...

... and my dear friend also, who has been the only one who ever told me that I ever did wrong in anything. Oh, had I only had the courage to have told her of what I was doing, all this misery would have been saved ute. I have been told my friend never told ...

... LITERATURE. POLISH LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS.-—It will be inter- esting to the friends of Poland-and where do civilization and humanity flourish that Poland has not friends ?-to know that a patriotic Pole, Mr. Joseph Straszewicz, who rendered great services ...

... was born, confirmed, nor where his friends died neither can lie write a common letter perfectly. How long shall reason be the slave of avarice, and poverty exult in ignorance If the preceding should be the means of saving some one from delusion and ruin ...

... fear, is tumbling down; And his case to consider, as well as we can, Is the part of a friend and a gentleman. 'Tis very proper, says John to Nick, And we'll try to help this poor fellow that's sick. Just so, says Nick, for, indeed, 'twould be cruel ...

... undaunted valour on the most trying occasions shone so conspicuously, and in private life was so much beloved, bears noble testimony to the heroism and self-devotion of the gallant Sepoy, who always found in Nott a devoted friend and brave commander. Sacred ...

... briefly advert to his origin and his youth. His father, a man of edu- cation, and of great natural humour, was a commercial clerk^i an iron establishment, and also a Jacobin, the name given in those days to, the friends of liberty by the artifice of its ...

... give the following extracts:— Some documents whieh hav«t recently been dis- covered throw light upon this case. It will be remembered that a reward of JE500 was offered by the friends of Mrs. Bravo to any person who should come forward and psove the sale ...

... sirous of trying its effect upon the human body, experienced shocks, some unsuccessfully endeavouring to abstract money from a bason of water, much to the amusement of the com- pany. The nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, having been in. haled by a youth, the ...

... in his 88th year. His youthful years were spent at Carron Shore, near the Great Carron Iron Works, where his father held an appointment in the Customs. When about twelve years of age, at the request of a ship's captain, a friend of his father, he was ...