Although the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians are the two dominant sects in Great Britain, all the others are welcomed there, and live together very fairly, whilst most of the preachers hate one another almost as cordially as a Jansenist damns a Jesuit.

When the tempter me pursu'th With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

They'll tell how I swallow'd the babies and lambs, And harassed the cows in the mead; And such slander completely my character damns, While I've no one to help me to plead.

When people address him, he damns them savagely if they kneel, and if they stand upright he accuses them of lack of respect.

He remain planted there, not giving any damns, and sit regarding me like a cat watching a duck.

And yet no British statute damns the deed, Nor do the more than murderous villains bleed.

A SWEARER Is one that sells the devil the best pennyworth that he meets with anywhere, and, like the Indians that part with gold for glass beads, he damns his soul for the slightest trifles imaginable.

He murmurs at him as the saints do at the wicked, as if he kept his right from him, for he makes his clownery a sect and damns all that are not of his Church.

Their maxim isHanc veniam damns petimusque vicissim.

He is the honourable gentleman in opposition, whatever proposal or proposition may be broached, and when others join him he secretly damns their superfluous agreement, quickly discovering that his way of stating the case is not exactly theirs.

thou hast no hope to scape; he that dares most, and damns away his soul to do thee service, will sooner fetch meat from a hungry Lion, than come to rescue thee; thou hast death about thee: h'as undone thine honour, poyson'd thy vertue, and of a lovely rose, left thee a canker.

Here should come three notes to Thomas Allsop in July and August, 1825, one of which damns the afternoon sun.

Let any one who wishes to satisfy himself of the real difference between Byron's mind and Shelley's, compare the writings in which each of them treats the same subjectnamely, that frightful question about the relation of the sexes, which forms, evidently, Manfred's crime; and see if the result is not simply this, that Shelley glorifies what Byron damns.

He damns a beautiful expression less out of spite than because he really does not understand it: any novelty of thought or sentiment gives him a shock from which he cannot recover for some time, and he naturally takes his revenge for the alarm and uneasiness occasioned him, without referring to venal or party motives.

Sad is my grief, and violent my rage, Furious I knock my head against the rail, That damns me to this miserable cage; Fierce as a Jack Tar with his well chew'd tail, I dash my spittle on the ground, and roar Loud as the trump to bid us be no more.

But the modern cursive pencil-writing!for you see that it is this cursive writing that damns this folio,what story does that tell?

Every man has got his own favourite short cut to Utopia and he damns all those who do not work therein with the unhesitating assurance of an Athanasius.

" 'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age, As damns, not only poets, but the stage.

" Our author, by experience, finds it true, 'Tis much more hard to please himself than you; And out of no feign'd modesty, this day Damns his laborious trifle of a play; Not that it's worse than what before he writ, But he has now another taste of wit;

And, out of no feigned modesty, this day Damns his laborious trifle of a play: Not that it's worse than what before he writ, But he has now another taste of wit; And, to confess a truth, though out of time, Grows weary of his long-loved mistress, Rhyme.

On the contrary there is every indication that they are rising and will still rise, as the following symptomatic scraps of news, gathered from all parts of the country, go to prove: The First Commissioner of Oaths states that "twopenny damns" will, until further notice, be eight-pence each.

The world outlaws those who love without itdrives them out, excommunicates, damns. . . .

The deserted Riding-Master damns his eyes and blesses his soul for a few moments; then sighs resignedly, takes a cigarette from his cap lining, lights it and waddles off towards the village and his favourite estaminet.

" "'Damn the convulsions of war, sir!' says I. "'Quite right,' says he, mildly; 'war is always damnable, Sir Lupus.' "'General Schuyler,' says I, 'there is no nonsense about me.

And yet no British statute damns the deed, Nor do the more than murd'rous villains bleed.