At Trinity College, Cambridge, from his taking his B.A. Degree to his taking charge of the Cambridge Observatory as Plumian Professor CHAPTER IV.

With this conduct of the French Government it will be proper to take into view the public audience given to the late minister of the United States on his taking leave of the Executive Directory.

Fancy reading of my own disappearance within a few days of its taking place, in the middle of the Atlantic!"

So dismal a thing is this commonly judged, that those that at their departure out of this life, are piously and virtuously disposed, do usually reckon the taking care for the relief of the poor Ministers' widows, to be an opportunity of as necessary charity as the mending the highways, and the erecting of hospitals.

I follow sins beyond the moment of their acting; I find in all that the last consequence is death; and to my eyes, the pretty maid who thwarts her mother with such taking graces on a question of a ball, drips no less visibly with human gore than such a murderer as yourself.

Hewell, he's a taking sort of fellow; everybody likes him who knows himreally knows himand speaks well of him.

The numbers seen by us were indeed incredible; the stem of every grass-tree (xanthorrhoea) which plant grows abundantly upon the hills, was covered with them, and on their taking wing the air appeared, as it were, in perfect motion. (*Footnote.

Dunmore, Lord, and Billy Cream. 'D'ye think I dinna ken my ain groats in ither folk's kail?' East Lothian minister and his betheral taking degrees at a northern college.

It is insisted on by many, I know, that as water which is salt, when it is applied to the skin, and suffered to remain long, while it secures the point of hardening the child, prevents all possibility of its taking cold, it hence follows, that wet diapers are not injurious.

On the 8th he reached Hong-Kong, where he found little to detain him; the most important matter being the formal taking possession, in the Queen's name, of the recently ceded peninsula of Kowloon.

I remembered my success with the monkey on poor little Madam Archfield's backnay, perhaps 'twas the same, my familiar taking shape.

I found Humayun's pony taking shelter under a rock, so, mounting it, I galloped after Peterson, gave him the order, and then closed the Levies on their right.

A careful examination of note-taking shows that there are rules or principles, which, when followed, have much to do with increasing ability in study.

Such a taking song; so simple, and yet so pretty, and so thoroughly distinctive.

I liked best "The Future Mrs. 'Awkins," with its taking tune, and "My Old Dutch," which revealed powers that, I should think, would come out grandly in Robsonian parts, such as "The Porter's Knot."

The proud look of an Iroquois taking spoils disappeared from the face of the youngest, giving way to uneasy anguish.

On the present occasion, we could see the fire of the French taking effect on the Black Prince's spars, as soon as they opened her batteries.

Call upon him at any hour from two to five, he insists on your taking tiffin: and such a tiffin!

Cantemir had turned religious, owing to the taking hold upon him of a mortal disease; and though he had not been about to undo any of his schemes in Cedric's case, yet he intended to do so as soon as he was able.