He affirmed the general temper of the Colonists toward Great Britain to have been, till this act was passed, the best in the world.

In the manufacture of sugar it is necessary to neutralize a certain redundant acid in the juice of the cane, by a fit proportion of some alkaline ingredient to enable the sugar to crystallize: The ordinary temper, as it is called, for this purpose, in the West Indies, is lime, but any alkali will produce nearly the same effect.

Temper, indeed, is no test of truth; but warmth and earnestness are a proof at least of a man's own conviction of the rectitude of that which he maintains.

His temper was acid, petulant, and harsh.

What a strange temper are the Senses in!

" "If the temper in which you received those proposals is fair criterion," Number One resumed, "there can be little doubt as to our decision.

Her temper was sweetness itself, and that is one of the greatest requisites in married happiness.

His temper, peculiarly violent at the slightest opposition, must have been a serious problem under her open disbelief in his genius and his creeds; and yet he thought he could not prosper without her.

The three fundamental aesthetical tempers are the idyllic and epic of enthusiasm, the dramatic of resignation, the lyric of devotion.

XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE We grant that it is, and a very serious oneto a man's friends, and to all that have to do with him; but whether the condition of the man himself is so much to be deplored, may admit of a question.

"It so happened that my disposition became suddenly of itself so changed, that I lost all relish for the company of others, nor did the gay assembly afford me any pleasure; my temper became melancholic, and my heart sad and confused; no one's presence was agreeable to me, nor did my heart feel inclined for conversation.

The man who in civilization is merely sullen and bad-tempered becomes a murderous, treacherous ruffian when transplanted to the wilds; while, on the other hand, his cheery, quiet neighbor develops into a hero, ready uncomplainingly to lay down his life for his friend.

In spite of his strength of purpose, his temper was not always proof against the rapacity and turbulence by which he was surrounded.

His temper is the image of Harry's.

The Loss is but a Trifle, but your Temper is Wanton, and incapable of the least Pain; therefore let me advise you, be patient, the Book is lost, but do not you for that Reason lose your self.

And yet you see merchants who go and labour themselves into a great fortune and thence into bankruptcy court; scribblers who keep scribbling at little articles until their temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid; and fine young men who work themselves into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it.

Temper is the salt, the quality which prevents it from becoming stale.

"A bad temper is not such an uncommon failing," smiled Dave.

This more humane temper is the result of many causes.

In old age, he said that the world certainly does get on in minor morals: that when he was young "everybody had a temper"; whereas now no such thing is allowed; amiability is the rule; and an imperfect temper is an offence and a misfortune of a distinctive character.

His temper, perhaps, was 'nassty,' which might pull him down a little when the last account came to be made up; and it could not be said that his elder children had come to much, for all his piety.

XVI.THAT A SULKY TEMPER IS A MISFORTUNE We grant that it is, and a very serious oneto a man's friends, and to all that have to do with him; but whether the condition of the man himself is so much to be deplored, may admit of a question.

To these, good sense, good temper, some self-denial, and consideration for the feelings of others, whether above or below them in the social scale, will be useful qualifications.

It is as necessary for the boy to understand his teacher as for the teacher to understand the boy, and hasty temper is an almost insuperable obstacle in the way of such understanding.

Upon my soul, Jack, a suspicious temper is a punishable temper.