But as many other writers tell us that, during his administration, the people received grants of land abroad, and were indulged with dramatic entertainments, and payments for their services, in consequence of which they fell into bad habits, and became extravagant and licentious, instead of sober hard-working people as they had been before, let us consider the history of this change, viewing it by the light of the facts themselves.

This is proper for a bottom dish at a grand entertainment. 99.

There can be little entertainment in such books; one set of Savages is like another.' BOSWELL.

The same energy which was displayed in his literary productions was exhibited also in his conversation, which was various, striking, and instructive; and perhaps no man ever equalled him for nervous and pointed repartees.' 'His Dictionary, his moral Essays, and his productions in polite literature, will convey useful instruction, and elegant entertainment, as long as the language in which they are written shall be understood.'

Nature seems to have provided that the serious parts of her musical entertainment in the morning shall first be heard, and that the lively and comic strains shall follow them.

Then I might mention that Caesar now for the first time shaved his beard, and held a magnificent entertainment himself besides granting all the other citizens a festival at public expense.

She threw open her palace to the people; lavished her wealth among them in sumptuous entertainments and exhibitions, and caused the vetchooi kolokol ("assembling-bell"), which summoned the popular meetings to the market-place, to be rung as the signal of these orgies of licentiousness.

In addition to a splendid entertainment, we were regaled with Lichfield ale, which had a peculiar appropriated value.

In the accounts of the old blockades we read how by means of music and dancing, and even theatrical entertainments, the monotonous nature of the work was counteracted, and the officers of the ships, including Nelson and other great commanders, welcomed these diversions for the prevention of the evils which might be bred by enforced idleness.

the next three paragraphs were as follows:'Instead of finding the head of the Macdonalds surrounded with his clan, and a festive entertainment, we had a small company, and cannot boast of our cheer.

But certainly one should think, that in whatever elevated state of life a man who knew the value of the conversation of Johnson might be placed, though he might prudently avoid a situation in which he might appear lessened by comparison; yet he would frequently gratify himself in private with the participation of the rich intellectual entertainment which Johnson could furnish.

It was at supperdinner, in Lichfield, when not a formal entertainment, is eaten at two in the afternoonthat he fell a-speculating as to whether Her eyes, after all, could be fitly described as purple.

"Among my father's most intimate friends was Baron Xavier Obergwho, at that time, held a very subordinate position in the Ministry of the Interiorand from my earliest recollections I can remember him coming frequently to our house and being invited to the brilliant entertainments which my mother gave.

And since the number of readers has increased a thousandfold with the spread of popular education, it is the age of the newspaper, the magazine, and the modern novel,the first two being the story of the world's daily life, and the last our pleasantest form of literary entertainment, as well as our most successful method of presenting modern problems and modern ideals.

I hope scarcely any man has known me closely but for his benefit, or cursorily but to his innocent entertainment.

However there were, now and then, some faint endeavours at Humour and sparks of Wit: which the Town, for want of better entertainment, was content to hunt after, through a heap of impertinences; but even those are, at present, become wholly invisible and quite swallowed up in the blaze of the Spectator.

"Their Plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the Stage; two of theirs being acted through the year, for one of SHAKESPEARE's or JOHNSON's.

When Tisquantum had emptied his long pipe, he bethought himself of the young captive's position, and proceeded to his daughter's apartment to give orders for his hospitable entertainment that evening, and his safe lodgment for the nightthat night which he was resolved should be his last.

"Gentlemen, is it a good plan?" As well as a Roman crowd if it wanted to see a gladiator die, the frayed nerves of The Corner responded to the stimulus of this delightful entertainment.

I dined yesterday at Lambeth, at the Archbishop's public dinner, the handsomest entertainment I ever saw.

Crowded places of cheap entertainment, and the benches of ale-houses, if they could speak, might bear mournful testimony to the first.

Then the Sheriff arose and said, "I thank you all, good yeomen, for the merry entertainment ye have given me this day.

But, although debarred by her infirmity from going into society, she still received her friends in her own home; and her evening receptions and elegant dinners were always cited as being among the most agreeable and successful entertainments of the season.

It is also related that, in the evening of the day on which the luminous flash appeared to him from the stone, he lighted an immense fire, and, having made a royal entertainment, he called it the Festival of Siddeh.

The young princes also sometimes spent their leisure hours in feasting and mutual entertainments.