When this result was attained, the patient might expect to grow as vigorous and wholesome as a properly pruned grape-vine or a dwarf pear-tree.

Such a statue, if the piety of the people did not raise it, might almost have been expected to grow up out of the pavement of its own accord on the spot that had been watered by the rain that dript from Johnson's garments, mingled with his remorseful tears.

And, in this latter point of view, it is worth all the treasure which has been lost in supporting it; for the Slave Trade, which was the great obstacle to this civilization, being now happily abolished, there is a metropolis, consisting of some hundreds of persons, from which may issue the seeds of reformation to this injured continent; and which, when sown, may be expected to grow into fruit without interruption.

In these proceedings it is easy to trace the vice and duplicity that must be expected to grow out of injustice.

when will you be old enough to have ordinary common sense?" Old Pipes considered that as he was already seventy years of age he could scarcely expect to grow any wiser, but he made no remark on this subject; and, saying that he doubted not that the money would go safely to its destination, he sat down to his supper.

Under this illusion, men expect to grow wise, as men who gamble in stocks expect to grow rich, by chance, and not by work.

Under this illusion, men expect to grow wise, as men who gamble in stocks expect to grow rich, by chance, and not by work.