Another acquaintance made in these days, which has always remained a delight to me, was that of Théodore Rousseau, to my mind the greatest of the French landscape painters.

My acquaintance was a fair man with a beard and a decidedly red nose and he wore spectacles.

He, however, said of him at another time to the same gentleman, 'Hurd, Sir, is a man whose acquaintance is a valuable acquisition.' That learned and ingenious Prelate it is well known published at one period of his life Moral and Political Dialogues, with a woefully whiggish cast.

He lived in their ideas so completely, that in after times his acquaintance with even the writings of Cicero was a matter of self-reproach.

ACQUAINTANCE Is the first draught of a friend, whom we must lay down oft thus, as the foul copy, before we can write him perfect and true: for from hence, as from a probation, men take a degree in our respect, till at last they wholly possess us: for acquaintance is the hoard, and friendship the pair chosen out of it; by which at last we begin to impropriate and inclose to ourselves what before lay in common with others.

The nearer acquaintance we cultivate with him, the stronger will become the ties of his affection.

knave?Were justice done you, an acquaintance with a rope's end would be a merited reward.

Irenaeus' acquaintance with Ptolemaeus can hardly have been a fact of yesterday at the time when he wrote.

That night as he lay in the darkness he thought with a pang how Father Holt and two or three soldiers, his acquaintances of the last six weeks, were the only friends he had in the great wide world.

It was in 1880 that we first knew Mr. and Mrs. Croly, and the acquaintance soon became an intimacy that lasted for twenty-three years.

From all of which I gathered that my new acquaintance was an intensely nervous person,very sensitive, of course, and no doubt irritable.

So that he found himself, before his acquaintance with Nant was thirty-six hours of age, free once more to humour the dictates of his own sweet will, to go on to Nimes (his professed objective) or to the devil if he liked.

Roger left with the feeling that his new acquaintance would be a desirable addition to the neighborhood group and he was so pleased that he stopped in at his Aunt Louise's not only to shake the furnace but to tell her about Stanley Clark.

"For we say correctly, 'an acquaintance of yours, ours, or theirs'of being the sign of the possessive; but if the words in themselves are possessives, then there must be two signs of the same case, which is absurd.

Andy decided that his new acquaintance was the right sort.

The new acquaintances on whom her attention fixed itself were Lady Maud, who attracted her strongly, and Mr. Feist, who repelled her.

We do not say, that an actual acquaintance with all the nice distinctions is an essential requisite, but only that it will not be altogether useless to be aware of their existence; at any rate, it may serve to shield him from the annoyance of false criticism, when censured for wanting beauty where its presence would have been an impertinence.

Some one went to the piano and began to play, "Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot," and the Americans and English sang, the French humming the air.

Margaret heard but did not understand that her new acquaintance was a Russian subject.

Our acquaintance with his laws is only second-hand, for none of them survive in their original form.

The first acquaintance he met was Sandoval, but Basilio called to him in vain.

" Morse assured himself afterwards, and so noted it in his journal, that this chance acquaintance was Prince Michael Jerome Radziwill, who had served as lieutenant in the war of independence under Kosciusko; fought under Napoleon in Russia (by whom he was made a brigadier-general);

An acquaintance with Hebrew was the result of her own unaided efforts.

Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Cæsar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.

His acquaintance was indeed a liberal and pious education.