There are many wrong things done which deserve criticism, but which we have not had space to mention.

Lastly, if the Queen's conduct was to be investigated, though the mode adopted was denounced as unconstitutional by the Opposition (for, not greatly to their credit, the leading Whigs made her guilt or innocence a party question), it does not seem to deserve the epithet, though it may be confessed to have been unsupported by any direct precedent.

Not only had jurymen been known to confess that they had preferred violating their oaths to doing still greater violence to their consciences, by sending a man to the gallows for a deed which, in their opinion, did not deserve it, but the very persons who had been injured by thefts or forgeries were often deterred from prosecution of the guilty by the knowledge that the forfeiture of their lives must follow their conviction.

And the ministers naturally regarded it as their first duty to suppress a body which could deserve to be so described.

"Does that Aulus Verginius," said he, "deserve less punishment than Appius Herdonius, because he was not in the Capitol?

" The whole of the Emperor's Meditations deserve the profound study of this age.

No doubt Faustina was unworthy of her husband; but surely it is the glory and not the shame of a noble nature to be averse from jealousy and suspicion, and to trust to others more deeply than they deserve.

However this may be, if there are any who think it worth while to censure Marcus because, after all, Commodus turned out to be but "a warped slip of wilderness," their censure is hardly sufficiently discriminating to deserve the trouble of refutation.

My hard fortunes Deserve not scorn; for I was never proud When they were good.

You do deserve her.

And when thou hast told all, thou wilt deserve it.

A permanent naval peace establishment, therefore, adapted to our present condition, and adaptable to that gigantic growth with which the nation is advancing in its career, is among the subjects which have already occupied the foresight of the last Congress, and which will deserve your serious deliberations.

But it is only since the close of the late war that by the numbers and force of the ships of which it was composed it could deserve the name of a navy.

To endure the offences of the multitude is a task requiring great prudence and force: if any one should simply punish all of them as they deserve, before he knew it he would have destroyed the majority of mankind.

"I know no man," I returned, "so worthy to deserve her as you.

"Thy vices, crimes, and ingratitude," said the baronet, "deserve no compassion; but a bare competence shall be supplied thee, and thy wife shall possess a third part of that fortune which once was thine."

Our horses, to be sure, are slow, plodding beasts, with considerable endurance, but little spirit; but the two baggage mules deserve gold medals from the Society for the Promotion of Industry.

I am deep in trouble, but not so deep as I deserve to be," and he buried his face in his hands.

"There wouldn't be much use in that, although I deserve it," Gerald replied.

I don't want to urge that I deserve my reward, but I've waited a long time and thought you approved.

"But I fear that the only praise I deserve is for keeping my appointment with you.

If its operations were to be directed for the benefit of any one class, equivalent favors must in justice be extended to the rest, and the attempt to bestow such favors with an equal hand, or even to select those who should most deserve them, would never be successful.

The laws, to which you refer on the sixty-eighth page of your book, tend to prove, and, so far as your admission of the necessity of them goes, do prove, that the relation of slaveholder and slave does not deserve a place, in the class of innocent and proper relations.

But still she would deserve some praisemuch more than if she had done nothing in this respect.

You deserve not the treatment of soldiers, but of spies.