disposing of armies in no whit inferior to those of Germany, and bringing to bear upon the science of warnow that Germany has forced us to itthe best intelligence, and the best character, of the nation.

Many a wretch in his native wilderness has Bras-Coupé himself, in palmier days, driven to just such an existence, to escape the chains and horrors of the barracoons; therefore not a whit broods he over man's inhumanity, but, taking the affair as a matter of course, casts about him for a future.

I had firmly made up my mind not to touch this food; but when it was ready it gave out such an agreeable odour, and my hunger was so great, that I broke my resolution, and remembered how many times I had eaten of food the preparation of which was not a whit cleaner.

From Green to Haldane the absolute proposed to us to straighten out the confusions of the thicket of experience in which our life is passed remains a pure abstraction which hardly any one tries to make a whit concreter.

To this happiness of theirs, let not old age any whit detract, but as their years, so let their mutual love and comfort increase."

" "Not so; he is most noble, butbutI know not what,he is haughty and full of temper and given to harsh language" "Yet he is not a fit companion for thee, sayest thou?" "Thou dost greatly misunderstand me; he is on the contrary a most delightful person to converse with and every whit fit to be a King;but we are not suited to each other.

If all the world were his, he could be no other than he is, no whit gladder of himself, no whit higher in his carriage, because he knows contentment lies not in the things he hath, but in the mind that values them.

And, although she be great and rich as the Princess of Burgundy, I warrant you she is not one whit handsomer nor kinder in disposition than I." Max started on hearing Mary of Burgundy's name, but quickly recovering himself said: "I would not wish her better than you in any respect.

I do not know what happened to the owl, but I daresay he went on "Tu-whit-ing" and "Tu-whoo-ing" to the end.

He is a religious man, and wears the time in his cloister, and, as the cloak of his doing nothing, pleads contemplation; yet is he no whit the leaner for his thoughts, no whit learneder.

He was in splendid condition, his muscles were developed up to the consistency of whit-leather, and with a smile he rose to follow the man who had invited him to alight for refreshment.

You deserve hanging, if any murderer ever did!" He looked at me so mildly and with such genuine interest that I was compelled to feel my indignation a whit melodramatic.

The roses still bud and bloom in the hedges, the emerald of the meadows is not a whit paler, the sun looks down lovingly as yet, and there are only the white helmets of some of the Appenines, with the leafless mulberries and vines, to tell us that we have changed seasons.

" They were full of unshed tearsthe kind old eyes, which did not grow one whit sterner or colder as Mrs. Van Buren explained, to some extent, what was in the letter; reading a little, telling a little, and skipping a little where Frank was especially concerned, until Aunt Barbara had a pretty correct idea of the whole.

Crates Thebanus was adored for a God in Athens, "a nobleman by birth, many servants he had, an honourable attendance, much wealth, many manors, fine apparel; but when he saw this, that all the wealth of the world was but brittle, uncertain and no whit availing to live well, he flung his burden into the sea, and renounced his estate."

No assertion is one whit truer than its opposite.