A distinguished commentator on the laws of Moses, Michaelis, vindicates their temporal sanctions on the ground of the Mosaic Code being of the nature of a civil system, to the statutes of which the rewards of a future state would be incongruous and unsuitable.

"There was great rejoicing in heaven that day," says a pious English commentator.

" A learned commentator gives us what he facetiously calls a lullaby note on this.

E. This island has much puzzled commentators, some of whom have wandered to Ormus in quest of its situation.

A distinguished citizen of one great British federation may well be accepted as the ablest commentator on the foundation of another.

"Philosophy is the science of the totality of things," says Cardinal Mercier, his greatest contemporary commentator, and he continues, "Philosophy is the sum-total of reality."

The diligent commentators on his works have investigated laboriously the sources from which he drew his plots and many of the very lines of his poems.

When a state is eminently flourishing, its subjects overlook general defects in private prosperity, but there is no more fastidious commentator on measures than your merchant of a failing trade.

"Namely," says the honest old commentator, "the beast of burden, and the beast who is borne, who in truth is the more beastly of the two.

Manoel de Faria y Sousa, the illustrious commentator of Camoens, cites Galvano in illustration of the fifth stanza in the fifth book of the immortal Lusiad, and likewise gives an account of this discovery in his Portuguese Asia.

"These are very pretty sentiments, Masteraaa, you bear a worthy name, no doubt, my ingenious commentator on commerce?" "They call me Seadrift, when they spare a harsher term;" returned the other, meekly declining to be seated.

But where the words of an author, taken literally, compared with some other passage in his writings, admitted to be authentic, involve a palpable contradiction, it hath been the custom of the ingenuous commentator to smooth the difficulty by the supposition, that in the one case an allegorical or tropical sense was chiefly intended.

Hundreds and thousands date their conversion from the instructions and admonitions received at those noble institutions; and not a few of the most devoted missionaries, illustrious divines, laborious commentators, and translators of the Bible, and most popular preachers of the age, have been among those very persons who owedand have rejoiced to own that they owedtheir conversion to Sabbath-school instrumentality.

A passage in which the spirit of the poet has fully roused his manly commentator is the noble burst of indignant reproach with which he inveighs against and mourns over Italy in Canto VI. of the "Purgatory": Ahi serva

" It seems that the records of the Inquisition in this island were destroyed and the traditions of its doings suppressed, because nothing is said regarding them by the native commentators on the island's history.

Besides the general symbolism pervading and motiving the whole,a symbolism of human destiny,and here and there a shadowing forth of the poet's private experience, there are special allusionslocal, personal, enigmatic conceitswhich have furnished topics of learned discussion and taxed the ingenuity of numerous commentators.

There were no self-introductions, Ralph merely acting as cicerone, and Miriam bringing up the rear in the character of occasional commentator.

"The ancients divided time," said the somewhat pertinacious commentator, "into years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and moments, as they divided numbers into units, tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands; and both with an object.

The spirit of the law is truly interpreted by the later priestly commentator who places completely under the ban all attempts visibly to represent the Deity.

Scott reports one other scene, at which respectable commentators, like Croker, hold up their hands in horror.

She read the sardonic commentators upon modern lifeIbsen, Strindberg, and many others; and if she sometimes passionately repudiated them, at other times she listened as if she were finding the answers to her own inquiries.

His learning was not secular merely; his library was well stocked with works on theology; he was familiar with the questions discussed in them; the New Testament, in the original, was a part of his daily reading; he had examined the dark or doubtful passages of Scripture, and they who were much in his society needed no more satisfactory commentator.

A shallow commentator has said that "the pahar or watch is three hours, and that the day commences at six a.m.," which is altogether incorrect.

The public expected more than he had diligence to perform; and yet his edition has been the ground, on which every subsequent commentator has chosen to build.

I might easily appeal, against these treacherous commentators, to the knowledge of all men reflecting every corner of your lordship's gardens at Stowe.