Of course I have not aimed at an exhaustive criticism in these Biblical studies, since the topics cannot be exhausted even by the most learned scholars; but I have sought to interest intelligent Christians by a continuous narrative, interweaving with it the latest accessible knowledge bearing on the main subjects.

"Philosophers employ examples from history for our correction and instruction, and the poets differ from them only by inventing and presenting fictitious narratives."

That is all we know about it, and it is not enough upon which to build an historical narrative or from which to draw any clear idea even of what befell.

We have presented this brief narrative of the incidents attending General Lee's return to his home after the surrender, to show with what simplicity and good sense he accepted his trying situation.

The sacred narrative says but little of the government of Egypt by a Hebrew slave, or of his abilities as a ruler,virtually supreme in the land, since Pharaoh delegates to him his own authority, persuaded both of his fidelity and his abilities.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

That little narrative has agreeably refreshed our minds, while the wine and cake has had the like effect on our bodies.

It is to be found in the journals of the day: it is contained in the hundred pathetic narratives of the men who took part.

To distinguish, however, between merely narrative poetry, and poetry which goes beyond being mere narrative into the being of epic, must often be left to feeling which can scarcely be precisely analysed.

Lister went to a hotel, and in the morning found a romantic narrative of Shillito's escape in the newspaper, but was relieved to note that nothing was said about the girl.

The widow, most unfortunately for her means of information, was with "neighbour Stone" when the connected narrative was given, and all that she knew was disjointed, obscure, and a little contradictory.

he observed quietly, in a break in Liane's dramatic narrative; perforce the lady must now and again pause for breath.

It is beyond our purpose to enter upon any thing resembling a detailed narrative of the confused and complicated movements of the various corps of the army under General Pope.

Fortunately, if this theory is right, the group of stories most fully quoted and therefore best preserved is the early Judean prophetic narratives.

It is not a dissection of the human heart; it is not even much of a love-story, but a most vivid narrative, without startling situations or adventures.

Colonel Bob Ingersoll, a biographical narrative.

The exquisite delineation of character, the moral wisdom, the purity and force of language, the artistic arrangement, and the lively and interesting narrative appealing to all minds, like the "Arabian Nights" or Froissart's "Chronicles," are the elements which give immortality to the classic authors.

The meagre lists of the kings of Wessex and the bishops of Winchester, which had been preserved from older times, were roughly expanded into a national history by insertions from Bede; but it is when it reaches the reign of Alfred that the chronicle suddenly widens into the vigorous narrative, full of life and originality, that marks the gift of a new power to the English tongue.

It was at this awful period that a retribution so frightful and extraordinary overtook Madame Marston, that we may hereafter venture to make it the subject of a separate narrative.

They were not pedants, but men of immense genius and genuine learning, who blended the profoundest principles of moral wisdom with the most fascinating narrative,men universally popular among learned and unlearned, great artists in style, and masters of the language in which they wrote.

To pursue the course of the destroyer from house to houseto show with what unrelenting fury he assailed his victimsto describe their sufferingsto number the dead left within their beds, thrown into the streets, or conveyed to the plague-pitswould be to present a narrative as painful as revolting.

Dominica, in 15° 30' is the first land said to have been discovered by Columbus in his second voyage, in the authentic original narrative by his son, which will be found in the sequel.

Some knowledge of the habits of the adventurers, and of the events that befell them at this early period of their history, is however needful for the illustration of the story; and they shall be briefly given, before we take up the thread of the narrative a few years subsequent to the period of which we are now speaking.

A bald, straightforward narrative that held us all for some moments absolutely speechlessone of the strangest and most startling stories ever revealed.

In The Tale of a Tub and in Gulliver's Travelsparticularly in the formerthe multitude as well as the aptness of the parallels between the imaginary narrative and the facts it is meant to represent is unrivalled in works of the kind.