This, I thought, is slavery; one man subjected to the will and power of another, and the laws affording him no protection, and he has to beg pardon of man, because he has offended man, (not the laws,) as if his master were a superior and all powerful being.

The master on duty was Mr. Rose, and after tea he left the room for a few minutes while the tables were cleared for "preparation," and the boys were getting out their books and exercises.

We are taught by the scribes of absolutism to speak of the Italians as if they were a nation of cowards, and we forget that the most renowned masters of the science of war, the greatest generals up to our day, were Italians,Piccolomini, Montecucculi, Farnese, Eugene of Savoy, Spinola, and Bonapartea galaxy of names whose glory is dimmed only by the reflection that none of them fought for his own country.

The new State was engaged in war with the powerful neighboring island of Aegina; on the eastern horizon was gathering the cloud that was to burst in storm at Marathon, Aeschylus was trained in that early school of Athenian greatness whose masters were Miltiades, Aristides, and Themistocles.

I am, then, astonished, his master not being thereif, indeed, the traveler, Samuel Vernon, has ever been its masterthat Dingo could have recognized those two letters.

But no wonder we were dupes," whimsically adds Colley, "while our master was a lawyer.

My master is a boy who taught me to do tricks, such as jumping rope, but I ran away and had a balloon ride.

Another great and admirable master of natural knowledge, Faraday, was a Sandemanian.

It is true that crime is made more public now, than during slavery, when the master was his own magistrate."Dr.

Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and David Balfour (1893) are novels of adventure, giving us vivid pictures of Scotch life.

Both master and scholar are indeed better painters than the Venetian; but the purchasers did not mean to be so well cheated.

My master is the Count of Winkelthal.

"Here, then," said the master, "is one reason for having prickles around the chestnuts when they are small.

FATHER My father's master was John T. Williams.

It was nothing to Stork that his master was a famous detective; the problem to him was why he was a detective when he had no call to be one, having more money than any manand let alone a single mancould spend in a lifetime.

His master was Verrocchio and his best pupil Raphael.

My young Master was a Lad of very sprightly Parts; and my being constantly about him, and loving him, was no small Advantage to me.

The old exile and the young one found each other out, and the language-master was soon an ha

If you use them thus, my master is a justice of peace, and will send you all to the gallows. PHANTASMA.

The first great masters of the Greek language in prose were the historians, so far as we can judge by the writings that have descended to us, although it is probable that the orators may have shaped the language before them, and given it flexibility and refinement The first great prose writers of Rome were the orators; nor was the Latin language fully developed and polished until Cicero appeared.

When first I went a-washing sheep The year was sixty-one, The master was a worker then, The servant was a man; But now the squatters, puffed with pride, They treat us with disdain; Lament the days that are gone by Ne’er to return again.

The master and mistress, two old Limousinsafterwards murdered, were terrible misers, and the bread, cut in tiny pieces for each meal, was kept under lock and key the rest of the time.

BOOK XI Comparative Worth of His Disciples "The first to make progress in the Proprieties and in Music," said the Master, "are plain countrymen; after them, the men of higher standing.

"My master was Tom Eford.

There is a smart, spurious wisdom of the world which has the bitterness not of the salutary tonic but of mortal poison; and of this kind the master is Chamfort, who died during the French Revolution (and for that matter died of it), and whose little volume of thoughts is often extremely witty, always pointed, but not seldom cynical and false.