The past was the past, was it not?

"Past is an adjective; passed, the past tense or perfect participle of the verb, and they ought not, as is frequently done, to be confounded with each other."Id., ib., p. 148.

PAST, beyond, gone by, is a contraction from the perfect participle passed.

"It is to see more and more of the hidden bonds that bind and consecrate change as a dependent growthyea, consecrate it with kinship; the past becomes my parent, and the future stretches toward me the appealing arms of children.

the past is every thing, being nothing!

They circle round through all the past, and up through the whole future; and both the past and future are the present, and are one.

The past is such a curious creature, To look her in the face

My past is a proof thereof.

My past was an evil river.

" "Though a man's past is not a woman's business?" "Oh, we certainly needn't argue that old nonsense.

Mary stopped scrubbing the kitchen floor, and Mrs. Watson left the iron so long on Teddy's shirt that it left a mark: "Say Au Revoir," sang Pearl, "but not goodbye, The past is deadlove cannot die, T'were better farhad we not met, I loved you thenI love you yet.

To your patriotism, gentlemen, has been confided the honorable duty of guarding the public interests; and while the past is to your country a sure pledge that it will be faithfully discharged, permit me to assure you that your labors to promote the general happiness will receive from me the most zealous cooperation.

The past has been, and inevitably, a period of ignorance, of engrossing physical necessities, and of brute force,not of freedom, of philanthropy, and of culture.

The future's unknown to our quest, To-day is the life of the peasant, But the past is a haven of rest The things of the past are the best.

Now that we are going into the sunny south, where every man may have it in for you, 'cause you were a Yankee soldier, I will stay by you, and there will be things doing that will make you think the past has been a sweet dream.

If the past is not a blank, if you once loved, have pity on me!'

My religious past became the worst enemy of the suffering present.

My past should be a guarantee for the future.

The past was a mystery; my future unexplored, full of the unimaginable; the ultimate future of course like my past.

When intelligence of this cruel catastrophe came to Zál's ears, he exclaimed: "Now indeed has the empire of Afrásiyáb arrived at its crisis: "Yes, yes, the tyrant's throne is tottering now, And past is all his glory.

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The past has been an eventful year, and will be hereafter referred to as a marked epoch in the history of the world.

And in defence of a private view and hesitancy, such as is also felt in the organized social life elsewhere, may it not be suggested that the past of Christendom, great as it is in mental force, moral ardour, and spiritual insight, and illustrious with triumphs over evil in man and in society, and shining always with the leading of a great light, is yet a human past, an imperfect stage of progress at every era?

But past is all his fame.

He had sailed the uncertain waters of finance for twenty years or more, and had been nearly shipwrecked more than once, but at the time of this story he was on the top of the wave; and as his past was even more entirely a matter of conjecture than his future, it would be useless to inquire into the former or to speculate about the latter.

The past has been a week of painful disunion and insubordination in oar Society.