The Negro spiritual speaks of life and death; being the Ingersoll lecture on the immortality of man, 1947.

" Bid me not love, bid a deaf man hear, a blind man see, a dumb speak, lame run, counsel can do no good, a sick man cannot relish, no physic can ease me.

'Well, if you'll wait there, ma'am'the charwoman opened the door of the dismantled sitting-room'I'll speak to Mr. Fenwick.'

I might without disrespect speak of the novelty of inquiring by the Senate into the history and progress of articles of a treaty through a negotiation which has terminated, and as the result of which these articles have become the law of the land by the constitutional advice of the Senate itself.

The eternal feminine and the eternal human speak there; and there, for this gallantest of women, were two keys that locked up the endless troubles and anxieties that ceased not day or night.

The age of Theocritus and Bion has given place toshall we say the age of the Caesars, or the irruption of the barbarians?and the love-singers of the North are beginning to feel, that if that passion is to retain any longer its rightful place in their popular poetry, it must be spoken of henceforth in words as lofty and refined as those in which the most educated and the most gifted speak of it.

I want for a very particulara very imperative reasonto speak at once to theto your friendthat manwhy the man that mends the boats, you know.

I know this terrible statement to be absolutely truegambling-houses and dens of infamy speak of their "best season" when wives leave town for summer outings, just as a farmer speaks of his harvest season when crops are ripe.

She looked the gratitude she could not on the instant speak.

What word of consolation could a mortal speak at such an hour?

As we watched it filling our neatly excavated well, we found no great difficulty in understanding why, in this continent, a native speaks of any very favoured district, as "Very fine countrymuch plenty waterfine country;" thus comprehending in the certain supply of that one necessary of life, the chief, nay almost the sole condition essential to a happy land.

Still more contemptuously does the preacher speak of the men, over whom the women rule and children oppress.

Evidence that it was Greville who was responsible for the publication of the Arcadia is found in the dedication of Thomas Wilson's manuscript translation from the Diana, where, addressing Greville, the translater speaks of Sir Philip's Arcadia, 'w^{ch} by yo^{r} noble vertue the world so hapily enjoyes.'

Unless I could prove that he had removed the treasure for unworthy useswhy speak of it at all?

From time to time she spoke of remembering, but he knew that this was as the blind speak of seeing.

[2080]So they do by learning; [2081] "didicit jam dives avarus Tantum admirari, tantum laudare disertos, Ut pueri Junonis avem" "Your rich men have now learn'd of latter days T'admire, commend, and come together To hear and see a worthy scholar speak, As children do a peacock's feather.

When he declares he knows human nature, consciously cynical maturity speaks.