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an 355973 occurrences

459-60; iv. 139; division in the popular party, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1; King, presents a remonstrance to the (1770), iii. 460; an Address (1770), iii. 201, n. 3; an Address (1781), iv.

MELANCHTHON, Boswell's letter from his tomb, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122, n. 2; punctuality, his, i. 32; 'the old religion,' ii. 105; iii. 122, n. 2. MELCHISEDEC, an authority on the law of entail, ii. 414, n. 2; Warburton's reply to Lowth's version of his story, v. 423.

217; v. 77. MODERNISING an author, iv. 315.

NICHOLSON , an advocate, v. 213.

NISBET, , an advocate, v. 213.

PHYSICIAN, a foppish one, iv. 319; history of an unfortunate one, ii. 455; one recommended by Dr. Taylor, ii. 474; one not sober for twenty years, iii. 389; one who lost his practice by changing his religion, ii. 466.

Upon his return to England he was honorably discharged, and, soon after, forming an attachment for a daughter of Sir Edward Bishop, a friend of his father, he eloped with her, and came to this country, settling at Hagerstown, in Maryland.

His skill with the pencil, too, was something phenomenal, and would, had not more serious duties prevented, have made him as noted an artist as he was an engineer.

Especially were these advantages foreseen in the vast empire of Russia, and an attempt was very early made to induce private capitalists to undertake the construction of the lines contemplated in that country.

This led to his receiving an invitation from the Emperor to go to Russia and become consulting engineer for the great road which was to connect the imperial city upon the Baltic with the ancient capital of the Czars.

But if you open up the top of a stove like this, it becomes, to all intents and purposes, an open fire.

Quite so, and in many respects, therefore, an open fire is an improvement on a close stove.

But in an ordinary gas retort the heat required to distill the gas is furnished by an outside fire; this is only necessary when you require lighting gas, with no admixture of carbonic acid and as little carbonic oxide as possible.

But in an ordinary gas retort the heat required to distill the gas is furnished by an outside fire; this is only necessary when you require lighting gas, with no admixture of carbonic acid and as little carbonic oxide as possible.

One of the same length, and ¾ inch in diameter, lasts but a quarter of an hour.

A fire ball consists of an open work sack internally strengthened with a sheet iron shell, and fitted with the Lamarre white composition.

These rockets are fired from a trough placed at an inclination of fifty or sixty degrees.

* NO ELECTRICITY FROM THE CONDENSATION OF VAPOR.It has been maintained by Palmieri and others that the condensation of vapor results in the production of an electrical charge.

An interesting contribution was made by M. Mercadier in a recent number of the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie Francaise.

Later this work was turned over to Colonel N.S. Gross, of Topeka, an enthusiast in ornithology.

The ace of spades is now an ace of clubs.

TOBY, on a leash, lifts an inquiring nose to the window.

Harvest of my years; an autobiography.

He was a light-weight and an excellent rider; I have sent him off to Belgrade with a telegram at dusk, and he was back again by breakfast time next morning, after a gallop of quite a hundred miles.

There was now such an absolute order among ourselves that the moral force of it repressed the excitement without that might else have rushed in and overborne us.

a 2519602 occurrences

You see for yourself how absurd it would be to treat a paper drawn or executed after a will was made as part of it, for that would render the requirements of the statute nugatory.

You see for yourself how absurd it would be to treat a paper drawn or executed after a will was made as part of it, for that would render the requirements of the statute nugatory.

Shall we disguss or take a vote?" "Let's take a smoke!" amended a real-estate broker.

Shall we disguss or take a vote?" "Let's take a smoke!" amended a real-estate broker.

But Bently, with a light upon his countenance such as theretofore had ne'er been seen on sea or land, suddenly held up his hand.

The letters, written in a fine scholarly handwriting, excited his interest extraordinarily.

Many of the emigrants' wives have procured their liberty by being divorced, and in this there is nothing blameable, for I imagine the greater number consider it only as a temporary expedient, indifferent in itself, and which they are justified in having recourse to for the protection of their persons and property.

I believe no one will dispute that the revolution has rendered the people more vicious; and, without considering the matter either in a moral or religious point of view, it is impossible to assert that they are not less happy.

The sound of a bell or a knocker at the close of the evening is the signal of dismay.

When a member of the committee looked inauspiciously at a subordinate accomplice, the latter scarce ventured to approach his home for some time.

One might be inclined to pity a people obliged to suppress their indignation on such an event, but the mind revolts when addresses are presented from all quarters to congratulate this monster's pretended escape, and to solicit a farther sacrifice of victims to his revenge.

A youth of the name of Julien, particularly in the confidence of Robespierre, was then sent to Bourdeaux, not officially as his successor, but as a spy, to collect information concerning him, as well as to watch the operations of other missionaries, and prevent their imitating Tallien's schemes of personal advantage, at the expence of scandalizing the republic by an appearance of lenity.

The brothers of Cecile Renaud, who were sent for by Robespierre from the army to Paris, in order to follow her to the scaffold, did not arrive until their persecutor was no more, and a change of government was avowed.

They have presented themselves at the bar of the Convention, to entreat a revisal of their father's sentence, and some compensation for his property, so unjustly confiscated.

After all this, Lecointre, whose figure is almost ludicrous, and who is no orator, was to repeat a voluminous denunciation, amidst the clamour, abuse, chicane, and derision of the whole Convention.

] I hear little of the positive merits of the convention, but the hope is general that they will soon suppress the Jacobin clubs; yet their attacks continue so cold and cautious, that their intentions are at least doubtful: they know the voice of the nation at large would be in favour of such a measure, and they might, if sincere, act more decisively, without risk to themselves.

I'll have a commission appointed by the Convention, and go myself at the head of it.

There are, indeed, many known revolutionists and republicans, who, from party disputes, personal jealousies, or from being comprised in some general measure, have undergone a short imprisonment; and these men now wish to be confounded with their companions who are of a different description.

There are, indeed, many known revolutionists and republicans, who, from party disputes, personal jealousies, or from being comprised in some general measure, have undergone a short imprisonment; and these men now wish to be confounded with their companions who are of a different description.

" Discours de Tallien, 14 Nov. "Let the government but adopt wise measures for making an honorable peace with a part of our enemies, and with the aid of the Dutch and Spanish navies, let us repair to the banks of the Thames, and destroy the modern Carthage.

Madame de St. Emd is the daughter of a gentleman whose fortune was inadequate both to his rank and manner of living, and he gladly embraced the offer of Monsieur de St. Emd to marry her at sixteen, and to relinquish the fortune allotted her to her two younger sisters.

In response Washington wrote a letter intended for public use, in which he said, "As you say it is insinuated by some of your political adversaries, and may obtain credit, 'that you palmed yourself upon me, and was dismissed from my family,' and call upon me to do you justice by a recital of the facts, I do therefore explicitly declare, that both charges are entirely unfounded.

[so] highly improper" that he was ordered under arrest and tried by a court-martial, which promptly found him guilty of disobedience and disrespect, as well as of making a "disorderly and unnecessary retreat.

"That, because I want to ask a favour of you," he said.

Shaking his head when alone, and muttering, "They're a queer lot, these Melcombeswho'd have expected this now!

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