As chief justice I delivered the opinion of the court, which my modesty does not prevent me from saying, was done in an able and dignified manner; as an act of clemency I suspended judgment for the time being, remarking that while the camp fire held out to burn, the vilest sinner might return; and in hope of the accused's amendment, I would defer pronouncing sentence.

To acquire this superiority of a large majority of freemen, a persevering system of engrossing nearly all the seats of power and place, is constantly for a long series of years pursued, and you have seen, in a period of fifty-six years, the Chief-magistracy of the Union held, during forty-four of them, by the owners of slaves.

But, in the natural heat of youth he had at the outset certainly mixed up some trivial with a greater number of worthy productions, and had shown an impatience of criticism by which, however excusable, he was sure to be himself the chief sufferer.

We should be bad biologists and worse physicians if we should under-estimate the importance of that which is Nature's chiefest care.

Then he hesitated and resumed: "But I haven't got an English chief-engineer's certificate.

In order therefore that the necessary harmony may be secured, it would be expedient to remove the chief authority nearer to the theater of war, by confiding all the necessary instructions and powers to the person who might be selected for the direction and command of the enterprise, after the general plan of operations had been regularly approved.

" Outside of the poet's household, the most important figure in the circle of his childish acquaintance was his mother's father, from whom he had his name, Johann Wolfgang Textor, the Schultheiss, or chief magistrate, of the city.

In an age when personal valour was regarded as the chief accomplishment, such conduct as that of John, always disgraceful, must be exposed to peculiar contempt; and he must thenceforth have expected to rule his turbulent vassals with a very doubtful authority.

Nay, not the only one,for one visible record of her, at least, the soil of France cherishes among its chiefest treasures.

that matchless effigy Of wonder-working nature's chiefest work: Tear her rich hair!

A chiefs daughter would already have plenty of good clothing, but if the girl lacks anything, it is furnished.

After this he went through all the grades from errand-boy up to chief-clerk, which post he filled to the full satisfaction of his employer.

Garrity had got the chief dispatcher, and was bawling louder than ever.

He had won her, against that penniless young jackanapes, lawyer Randall's son, who had treated him with marked contempt on more than one occasion when they happened to come across each other in Malsham Corn-exchange, which was held in the great covered quadrangular courtyard of the chief inn at Malsham, and was a popular lounge for the inhabitants of that town.

When he reached the camp in which the sick chief lay, he was summoned immediately before the ailing autocrat.

"I believe you're right, sir," answered Hazard, the chief-mate, who was now on deck.

Now that the chief peril was past, my fatigue came back to me worse than ever.

In this year 1512, John de Solis, a native of Lisbon, and chief pilot to King Ferdinand, went from Spain by license to discover the coast of Brazil.

He equals Bacon in his high estimation of sensuous experience in contrast to the often illusory conclusions of the reason, and of the value of induction; but he does not conceal from himself the fact that observation is merely the first step in the process of cognition, leaving the chief rôle for the understanding.

It was simply not worth the heart-burn and infighting to rise to the level of a humble chief-sub.

But, I say, that must he the chiefs tent, by the look o't.

My worthiness is all my doubt, His merit all my fear, Contrasting which, my qualities Do lowlier appear; Lest I should insufficient prove For his beloved need, The chiefest apprehension Within my loving creed.

The time hath been, when Virtue had the sovereignty Of greatest price, and plac'd in chiefest dignity; But topsy-turvy now the world is turn'd about: Proud Fortune is preferr'd, poor Virtue clean thrust out.

Nor shall, unjust to foreign worth, the Muse In silence Austria's valiant chiefs conceal; While Aremberg's heroic line she views, And Neiperg's conduct strikes even envy pale: Names Gallia yet shall further learn to fear, And Britain, grateful still, shall treasure up as dear! XIX.

e oppressed, and have aided in the deliverance of your country from its greatest crime, and its chiefest reproach.