I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy restI came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

The stadtholderess received the distinguished petitioners with courtesy, listened to their detail of grievances, and returned a moderate, conciliatory, but evasive answer.

I wished some dry, prosy petitioners in England could have heard it.

" Pat rubbed his unshaven chin with the lean fingers of his one serviceable hand, the bristles of his week-old beard making a rasping sound the while, and glanced down sideways at the eager little petitioner.

" After the opening prayer by Dr. William Adams, Speaker Blaine said: "Less than thirty years ago a man of genius and learning was an earnest petitioner before Congress for a small pecuniary aid that enabled him to test certain occult theories of science which he had laboriously evolved.

He took the importunate petitioner by the shoulders, pushed him into the street, and shut the door.

I sit at the receipt of custom (involuntarily enough) from morning till nightno time, no place, affords me a respite from my innumerable petitioners, and whether I be asleep or awake, reading, eating, or walking; in the kitchen, my bed-room, or the parlour, they flock in with urgent entreaties, and pitiful stories, and my conscience forbids my ever postponing their business for any other matter; for, with shame and grief of heart

" Pat rubbed his unshaven chin with the lean fingers of his one serviceable hand, the bristles of his week-old beard making a rasping sound the while, and glanced down sideways at the eager little petitioner.

Must I always be a mute and unwilling petitioner for sympathy in suffering!always giving pain?

At length our poet's extraordinary merit and winning behaviour so far subdued Sir George's resentment, that he used his interest with the Chancellor to have his son-in-law restored to his place; But this request was refused; his lordship observing, that he did not chuse to discharge and re-admit servants at the request of his passionate petitioners.

Here is a poetical petitioner against a needless destruction of the little tenants of the parterre.

I wished some dry, prosy petitioners in England could have heard it.

"Let those two questionary petitioners try to do this with their whos and their whiches.

This magnificent reasoning was of course unanswerable; and the rebuked petitioner abandoned her bootless errand in despair.

"And what boon has my annual petitioner to beg to-day?" said my father, as he entered the breakfast-room on the morning of my birth-day.

With him the innumerable crowd Of armed prayers Knock'd at the gates of Heaven, and knock'd aloud; The first well-meaning rude petitioners, All for his life assail'd the throne, All would have bribed the skies by offering up their own.