The luxury, immorality, and race-suicide which are popularly conceived to have been the immediate causes of Rome's decline and fall, were in reality the logical results, the inevitable attendant phenomena of a political system based on a false hypothesis.

" "Our luxuries would be strictly limited," jested Kovroff, with a wry smile.

Their luxuries were blood-bought luxuries indeed.

Apart from the tea, another luxury enjoyed by sub-editors living in and around Panjim was a home drop at night in the office jeep.

The luxury of feeling that he had his man in his power was its own reward.

When luxuries become necessaries, insolvency is the best safety-valve to discharge the surplus dishonesty of the people, which, if pent up, would explode in dangerous overt acts of crime and violence; and it should be encouraged accordingly. (To be concluded in our next.)

This I shall content myself with simply denying; assuring my readers that for ten years, during which I took opium at intervals, the day succeeding to that on which I allowed myself this luxury was always a day of unusually good spirits.

But we must always remember that the extravagant luxury and hospitality of the old time were germane and proper to it, component parts of the social framework.

In short, Content is equivalent to Wealth, and Luxury to Poverty; or, to give the Thought a more agreeable Turn, Content is natural Wealth, says Socrates; to which I shall add, Luxury is artificial Poverty.

The luxuries of life on the island were air and water, and the glories of evening and morning.

A chief luxury and expense in which, when aware what my income was, I indulged myself freely was the purchase of Martial literature.

The only luxuries in the room were books and rare flowers.

Splendour diminished, and luxury remained the monopoly of the rich; but comfortthat peculiarly English treasurewas more generally diffused.

These reflections continued to haunt and oppress me, by night and day, and life itself seemed a bitter burden in that interval of rebellious agony, and in that terrible seclusion, where luxury itself became an additional engine of torture.

First of all, the luxury of freedom,political, social, and domestic,with the habits it creates, is the source of great and ever-increasing expense.

But luxury like this is the very thief of time.

The greatest luxury I know is to have accumulated stores of work on which one can draw; and my tendency is, if ever a piece of work is entrusted to me, to do it at once.

The luxuries of the Filipinos are buyo and cigarsa cigar costing half a centavo, and a buyo much less.

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the provinces which now compose France were studded with castles, which were as remarkable for their interior, architecture as for the richness of their furniture; and it may be asserted that the luxury which was displayed in the dwellings of the nobility was the evidence, if not the resuit, of a great social revolution in the manners and customs of private life.

If the luxury of carriages be an evil, it must be because the horses employed in them consume the produce of land which might be more beneficially cultivated: but the gilding, fringe, salamanders, and lions, in all their heraldic positions, afford an easy livelihood to manufacturers and artisans, who might not be capable of more laborious occupations.