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How great a compliment that was to the mysterious unknown only I could guess!

Far better for one of his temperament to rest in the wilderness, his grave unknown, but his memory revered.

We do not, however, think it proper to call this even the perfectly exempt; but that which is in every respect incapable of being apprehended, and about which we must be perfectly silent, will be the most, just axiom of our conception in the present investigation; nor yet this as uttering any thing, but as rejoicing in not uttering, and by this venerating that immense unknown.

Too amiable unknown, I give thee to the winds!

We may add that popular belief generally ascribed to the executioner a certain practical knowledge of medicine, which was supposed inherent in the profession itself; and the acquaintance with certain methods of cure unknown to doctors, was attributed to him; people went to buy from him the fat of culprits who had been hung, which was supposed to be a marvellous panacea.

I was going I thought I knew not whither, into a dismal gulf unknown, and as yet unperceived, never to behold my friends, nor the light of this world any more!

"Into a dark and a distant unknown.

[Footnote A: Sheep embryo, exact age unknown.]

She soon reached that part of the trail where the susceptible Postmaster had seen the fascinating unknown.

"The fatal 'unknown' was the prevailing designation; 'brought here at three in the morning, skull fractured, unknown;' 'brought at twelve at night, drowned under the Pont des Arts, cards in his pocket, unknown;''young woman, pregnant, crushed by a fiacre at the corner of the Rue Mandar, unknown;''new born child found dead of cold, at the gate of an hotel, unknown.'

To the great relief of this half-melancholy feeling, the ladies at his departure made him a present of a waistcoat, upon which he had watched them both for some time past at work, with a silent envy of the fortunate unknown, to whom it was by-and-by to belong.

"No, Lady Isabella," cried he, "I have once already delivered thee from his tyranny" "Art thou the generous unknown whom I met in the vault?"

The Mississippi needs no herald now But here within this glen unknown to fame, It flows contenta bubble on its brow, A leaf upon its breastwithout a name!

Wherefore is thy tide so sullied With a hue unknown to me; Wherefore dost thou bring pollution To the old and sacred sea?" "Ha! rejoice, old Father Euxine!

Your humble Servant unknown.

Their names were used as baitstheir presence being represented under the ominous forms of half-a-dozen well-known illustrious unknowns, headed by two "enterprising" booksellers!

He had vanished into the infinite unknown.

Against such a foe, who swooped down suddenly upon the city, plundered and then escaped into the limitless unknown, the Jews had no chance of reprisal.

His present mode of life and his isolation from the world gave him a feeling almost of kinship with them, and in some strange way, and through some medium unknown to him, they might reciprocate.

But it yet remains for me to speak of the most interesting exhibition that modern Rome can boast, and of the most interesting person in it and in all Italy, and that is the atelier of Canova and Canova himself, the greatest sculptor, perhaps, either of ancient or modern times, except the mighty unknown who conceived and executed the Apollo of the Vatican.

That was a motive unknown to the ancients, though the Romans came near it when they granted equal citizenship to all provincialsa measure far in advance of any concession of ours.

Retiring, and unknown or but to few, Her latter days were hid from public view; But I have often witness'd, when alone The prayer uplifted, and the sigh unknown.

We met the baggage coming in, and heard that the 14th Sikh picket had heard some people moving in the river bed, and had let drive a volley at themresult unknown.

WRESTLING JACOB. Come, O thou traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see!