Upon what little matters, my dear Atterley, do our fortunes, and even our characters depend!

Author of renewable matter: Elbert Hubbard.

I could adduce undeniable testimonials of their efficacy, because, in fact, they are all efficacious; and it seems to me a mere matter of earthshine, whether we resort to one or the other mode of restoring the equilibrium of the human machine; all that we have to do, being to know when and to what extent it is proper to use either.

Having carefully perused the column of "Houses to let," and the column of "Dogs lost," and then the columns of "Wives and apprentices runaway," I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.

Yet there is one incident which shows he could be in earnest in religious matters, even at that date.

Hence it may not appear preposterous to conclude that, as Vesuvius receives the waters of the Mediterranean, with its fish, to eject them by its crater, so the subterranean and subaqueous forces which maintain Mount Erebus in activity may occasionally receive organic matter from the bank, and disgorge it, together with those volcanic products, ashes and pumice.

for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith.

" The discussion ended in laughter, and the talk turned to lighter matters;

Soon after this time I took from their repository a portion of the unpublished papers which I had written during the last years of our married life, and shaped them, with some additional matter, into the little work entitled Utilitarianism; which was first published, in three parts, in successive numbers of Fraser's Magazine, and afterwards reprinted in a volume.

"Sad, is it not, that I should fail in such a trivial matter?

Pecuniary refers to practical matters in which money is involved, though not usually in large amounts.

It was a very delicate matter, and the notes presented to the Conference by Great Britain on March 26 and April 2, by the United States on March 28 and April 12, show how embarrassed the two Governments were in considering a question which France regarded as essential for her future.

Consequently Hermagoras defines the subject matter of rhetoric as "public questions," Dionysius of Halicarnassus, as "communal affairs," and the Ad Herennium as "whatever in customs or laws is to the public benefit."

" Strange occurrences, exploits of strength, deeds of lawlessness, references to spiritual beingssuch-like matters the Master avoided in conversation.

As the gases that surrounded the earth became consolidated into vegetation, as this stupendous growth decomposed the noxious atmosphere, drawing from it its grosser particles and working them up into solid matter, extracting from it what was fatal to animal life, this earth entered upon another era of its progress.

A[n] in some minor matters led to a[n] in their friendship.

Other theologians holdand their opinion is the more common and the more probable onethat, although one psalm is a notable part of a small hour, in relation to the whole office it is not a notable part, and its omission is not a grave matter.

Through some of the open door-ways we saw plump children rolling about on the stone floors, and their mothers, by no means very pretty, but as happy-looking as mothers generally are; and while we gazed at these domestic matters, an old woman rushed wildly out of one of the gates, upholding a shovel, on which she clanged and clattered with a key.

When we spoke again, it was about indifferent matters,about the height of the river, and the recent rains.

You have only to let her know that this is a vital matter to you and she'll speak as you wish her to speak.

Its merits, in all civil or political matters, are certainly equal, if not superior, to those of the English Constitution, from which in great part it was borrowed; its faults are precisely those which resulted necessarily from the Pope's double character, as temporal sovereign of the Roman States and as head of the Catholic Church throughout the world.

The gray matter is the portion having the highest functions, and its apparent quantity is largely increased by being formed in convolutions.

"In serving your prince, make your service the serious concern, and let salary be a secondary matter.

This deposit, I have no doubt, was derived from the surface like the others, but in this case by the melting of icebergs and the precipitation of foreign matter contained in the ice.

But I could tell her that I had had an urgent matter to discuss with her father; that he came from Scotland to discuss it with me, and that after I left him he was murdered.