The Gildon are all gone; and when, in the next generation after theirs, national life began, in many parts of Europe, strongly to assert itself in literature against the pedantry of the French critical lawgivers, in Germany Milton's name was inscribed on the foremost standard of the men who represented the new spirit of the age.

My lords, the tendency of the bill, which we are now to approve or reject, is so apparently destructive to the ends of government, so apparently dangerous to publick happiness, and so contrary to the institutions of the most celebrated lawgivers, and the policy of the most flourishing nations, that I still continue to think it my duty to struggle against it.

Christ as head of the church was her absolute lawgiver, and thus saith the Lord, was all she dare demand.

What is the answer of the experienced lawgiver? "Says Moses to Aaron, ''Tis the fashion to wear 'em!'

The literary lawgivers of this age held that a rigid adherence to certain narrow rules was the prime condition of producing a masterpiece.

Stern lawgiver!

" "'Blighty', the British soldier's name for England..." "MOSES, the distinguished lawgiver and prophet..." "The GERMAN CROWN PRINCE, eldest son of KAISER WILHELM II..." "EVE, the heroine of the Garden of Eden story..." "Economy, the virtue imposed on us by the present shortage of food..." "The Daily Mail, a newspaper..." * * * *