Melville tells me that your record, in your own home, was the best; your war record alone, I believe, would entitle you to the limit of mercy from the State.

The record is the most astounding in the faith of the Christian religion, and the power and providence of God to answer prayer, that modern times can show.

These valuable records, in which the bandits and their leaders have imprudently given themselves away, are real "pièces à conviction.

The fourth month saw them win twenty games and lose eight and in the fifth month their record was twenty victories and five defeats.

His record is not exactly savoury.

Officers' records are the criterion when superiors come to making promotions.

And behold, in that book the record of the Saint also was a revelation, a marvel.

His record is an unbroken record of honourable conduct; his life has been that of a clean-living, straightforward gentleman.

"And the beautiful, whose record Is the verse that cannot die, They too are gone, with their glorious bloom, From the love of human eye." Mrs. Hemans.

The earliest records left to us are many generations later and they are obscure and doubtful, but according to Vigilantius, an early historian whose lost writings have been quoted by those who followed him, a great Christian church was re-erected here in A.D. 164 by Lucius, King of the Belgae, on the site of a building destroyed during a temporary revival of paganism.

The knowledge of mind is the first of sciences; the records of its formation and workings are the most important of histories; and it is eminently a subject for poetical exhibition.

The names of his publications, the dates of them, the number of them, the publisher's price for them, the critic's opinion of them, are meagre facts for the biographer; and if the man of genius be a man of quiet, sequestered life, the record of it will be only the more uninteresting to the reader.

The record of futurity is, indeed, no accurate expression, but as we only know transactions past or present, the language of men affords no term for the volumes of prescience, in which future events may be supposed to be written.

The records of New Hampshire and Rhode Island are also a fruitful source of information on this subject, and the Provincial papers indicate an almost unbroken tide of Irish immigration to this section, beginning as early as the year 1640.

" Glancing back to the commencement of the nineteenth century, the only annual record of poetry and prose which we recollect, was "The Flowers of Literature;" a thick duodecimo, habited in a flesh-coloured wrapper, and retaining in its print and pages, the quaintness which characterized "the good old days" of the "Universal Magazine;" and which still clings, though somewhat modified, to the patriarchal pages of Sylvanus Urban.

As for the young officers, dead and living, their record is the best answer to the critics, mostly of the arm-chair type, who have chosen this time to assail our public school system.

My record is a blank for some days after this.

To return to the early philosophers, who were mostly materialists, the record of their speculations is an interesting chapter in the history of rationalism.

The first record, I believe, which I have of my attention to mechanics there is the plan of a threshing-machine which I drew.

The latter being, by its very form, artificial, is cultivated as a fine art, and its records preserved in an early stage of society, when prose is simply the talk of men, and not thought worthy of being written and kept.

The most ancient record of this event is a curiosity in the history of civil government.

A normal record is that of Fowler's plantation, the "Prairie."

I have never found that you get any money back by knowing just how you have spent it, and a conscience-pricking record of expenses is very ungrateful reading.

Point Record is the low sandy point on the left of the picture in the view of Port Essington, volume 1.)

The record of that appalling business is very brief in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," a few lines under the date 1001.