Miss Wiggin tells us that indirectly we owe the children's sand-heaps in the public parks to Froebel, since these were the result of a suggestion made by Frau Schrader to the Empress Frederick, and the idea was carried out during her husband's too brief reign.

However much we may deplore the subversion of the Roman constitution and the absolute reign of the emperors, in which most historians see a political necessity, there was yet under these emperors, whether good or bad, the reign of law, the bequest of five hundred years' experience.

Hearing this eulogium on the character of the new king from Kai-khosráu, all the warriors expressed their satisfaction, and anticipated a glorious reign.

Solomon's peaceful and prosperous reign of forty years was, however, favorable to one grand enterprise which David had longed to accomplish, but to whom it was denied.

The universal reign of Law is a magnificent truth; it is one of the two great pillars of the universe symbolized by the two pillars that stood at the entrance to Solomon's temple: it is Jachin, but Jachin must be equilibriated by Boaz.

"The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her solitary reign."

Had he raised his unacknowledged wife to the throne, it would have resulted in political complications which would have embarrassed his whole subsequent reign.

After a prosperous and brilliant reign of thirty-one years, the emperor died in the year 337, in the suburbs of Nicomedia, which Diocletian had selected as the capital of the East.

After a brilliant reign, Cyaxares transmitted his empire to an unworthy son,Astyages, the grandfather of Cyrus, whose loss of the throne has been already related.

From present indications it would seem as though they are about to find itwhere perhaps they least expected itin the imperial reign of King WILLIAM, aided and abetted by Count VON BISMARCK.

Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales and Ceres' golden reign: Now rolling down the steep amain, Headlong, impetuous, see it pour; The rocks and nodding groves rebellow to the roar.

Leave that fictitious good your fancy feigns, For scenes where real bliss eternal reigns: Look to that region of immortal joys, Where fear disturbs not, nor possession cloys; Beyond what Fancy forms of rosy bowers, Or blooming chaplets of unfading flowers; Fairer than o'er imagination drew, Or poet's warmest visions ever knew.

These, these are joys alone! 'Adieu, ye vain low-thoughted cares, Ye human hopes, and human fears, Ye pleasures and ye pains!' While thus I spake, o'er all my soul A philosophic calmness stole, A stoic stillness reigns.

* * Since men like beasts each other's prey were made, Since trade began, and priesthood grew a trade, Since realms were form'd, none sure so cursed as those That madly their own happiness oppose; There Heaven itself and god-like kings, in vain Shower down the manna of a gentle reign; While pamper'd crowds to mad sedition run, And monarchs by indulgence are undone.

These circumstances were all confessed by the actors in the following reign; they were never punished for the crime, probably because Henry, whose maxims of government were extremely arbitrary, desired to establish it as a principle that the commands of the reigning sovereign ought to justify every enormity in those who paid obedience to them.

" During the weak reign of Henry VI, France was delivered from English rule, mainly through the heroism of Jeanne d'Arc.

He here found everything in confusion by the death of the King, who expired after an unhappy and inglorious reign of thirty-five years (1016).

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, wrote Gray, adding with the wisdom of disillusion, Gay hopes are theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed.

DEATH OF MINÚCHIHR To Minúchihr we now must turn again, And mark the close of his illustrious reign.

Attached to his first expedition are a series of narratives, by professing eye-witnesses, of his intrigues, encounters, acts of diablerie and of munificence, in particular of his roaming about the isles of Greece and taking possession of one of them, which have all the same relation to reality as the Arabian Nights to the actual reign of Haroun Al Raschid.

Absolute monarchical power in France was, almost in every successive reign, singularly modified, being at one time aggravated and at another alleviated according to the ideas, sentiments, morals, and spontaneous instincts of the monarchs.

The troublesome reign of Stephen was soon after brought to a close.

And the mother wondered and bowed her head, And sat as still as a statue of stone; Her heart was troubled yet comforted, Remembering what the Angel had said Of an endless reign and of David's throne.

'This has been a very factious reign, owing to the too great indulgence of Government.'

The English, who for the most part have had their greatness thrust upon them by circumstances, neglected Cabot's discoveries for fifty years, and during that time the French and Portuguese took possession of the whole region and named all the coasts; then, when the troubled reign of Henry VIII was over, the English people began to wake up, and in fact rediscovered Cabot and his voyages.