As on a time the fox held forth On conscience, honesty, and worth, Sudden he stopp'd; he cocked his ear; And dropp'd his brushy tail with fear.

If honesty opposed his views, He dared not innocence excuse.

To prove your honesty and wit!

60 Is honesty disgraced and poor? What is't to us what was before?

Near this is the effigyalso colored and under a canopyof Edmund Plowden, the famous jurist, of whom Lord Ellenborough said that "better authority could not be cited"; and referring to whom Fuller quaintly remarks: "How excellent a medley is made, when honesty and ability meet in a man of his profession!"

They judge of their fellows by themselves, and from the depravity of their own hearts are willing to infer, that every honesty has its price.

And that such a principle should have so large a spread among persons, whose honesty, candour forbids us to suspect, is surely, of all the paradoxe upon the face of the earth, incomparably the greatest.

The character of lord Keppel, with persons not attached to any party, has usually been that of a man of much honesty and simplicity, without any remarkable abilities.

"Yes," he said at length, "I suppose the standard of honesty in business is nowadays just about as low as it can possibly be, eh?

hath an example of a jealous woman that by this means had many fits of the mother: and in his first book of some that through jealousy ran mad: of a baker that gelded himself to try his wife's honesty, &c. Such examples are too common.

Before I violate mine honesty, Or thunder from above drive me to hell, With those pale ghosts, and ugly nights to dwell.

[6230]A citizen of Engubine gelded himself to try his wife's honesty, and to be freed from jealousy; so did a baker in Basil, to the same intent.

Coquage god of cuckolds, as one merrily said, accompanies the goddess Jealousy, both follow the fairest, by Jupiter's appointment, and they sacrifice to them together: beauty and honesty seldom agree; straight personages have often crooked manners; fair faces, foul vices; good complexions, ill conditions.

Let it, however, be added in his exculpation, that another man of undoubted and scrupulous honesty,Afranius Burrusa man of the old, blunt, faithful type of Roman manliness, whom Agrippina had raised to the Prefectship of the Praetorian cohorts, was willing to share his danger and his responsibilities.

The attempts of the Christian Fathers to show that the truths of ancient philosophy were borrowed from Scripture are due in some cases to ignorance and in some to a want of perfect honesty in controversial dealing.

Why, not so much: the credit of our house Is thrown away; But from his Iron Den I'le waken death, And hurle him on this King; my honesty Shall steel my sword, and on its horrid point I'le wear my cause, that shall amaze the eyes Of this proud man, and be too glittering For him to look on. Amint.

He took a contract for building one section of a canal, which was to pass through part of his land; sub-contractors cheated him, and he, in his honesty, almost ruined himself to right their wrong.

Both the men inside were the colonel's personal servants, and he believed their honesty; but what of their vigilance?

He was afterwards at the University, and he has described the scruples of an ingenuous youthful mind about subscribing the articles, in a passage in his Church-of-Englandism, which smacks of truth and honour both, and does one good to read it in an age, when "to be honest" (or not to laugh at the very idea of honesty) "is to be one man picked out of ten thousand!"

For in proportion as you can detract from the honesty and authority of the man who is accused, in the same proportion has the force of the whole defence been weakened.

Then comes the common topic by which the expediency or honesty of the action is increased.

On the preceding pages, are hundreds of just such testimonies; the voluntary and explicit testimony of slaveholders against themselves, their families and ancestors, their constituents and their rulers; against their characters and their memories; against their justice, their honesty, their honor and their benevolence.

Well, if to sustain government we must sacrifice honesty, government could not be in a more appropriate place, than in the hands of dishonest men.

For a time Robinson resisted all the advances of the new chaplain, but when Mr. Eden came to him in the black-hole, and cheered him through the darkness and solitude by talking to him, not only was Robinson's sanity preserved,the man's heart was touched, and from that hour he was sworn to honesty.

She felt that she was honest, and she saw no good reason why he should doubt her honesty.

For 40 centimes one may purchase a bottle of vin de gard, a thin tipple, doubtless; but what kind of claret could one buy for fourpence a quart at home?

A two-franc tree, had Grand'mere possessed one, would have been Brobdignagian and pretentious.

They had lost their air of aloofness and were at one with the white earth, just as the forest trees in their autumn dress of brown and russet appear more in unison with their parent soil than when decked in their bravery of summer greenery.

THE RECORD OF A ROUNDABOUT TOUR BY MARY STUART BOYD WITH ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SKETCHES

I used to dream that the city that saw my birth would one day swell with pride at my name, adding it to the brilliant list of her illustrious sons, and, when death should put an end to my existence, that they would lay me down to dream the golden dream of immortality on the banks of the Bétis, whose praises I should have sung in splendid odes, and in that very spot where I used to go so often to hear the sweet murmur of its waves.

Any strong vowel dominates a weak one.

One born on that day might have particular aptitude for witchcraft.]

Turning about, or getting up for water or tobacco, or perhaps to put fuel on the fire, they unluckily tread on a snake, or during sleep they roll over on one.

Friends from other districts, from up country, from Calcutta, gather together; and as the weather is bracing and cool, and every one determined to enjoy himself, the meet is one of the pleasantest of reunions.

Friends from other districts, from up country, from Calcutta, gather together; and as the weather is bracing and cool, and every one determined to enjoy himself, the meet is one of the pleasantest of reunions.

Every factory had at least one bit of likely jungle close by, where a pig could always be found.

The breaks of open land between the jungles are too small and narrow to afford galloping space, and though you turn the pig out of one patch of jungle, he immediately finds safe shelter in the next.

On one occasion I was very rudely made aware of this trait.

To this it was replied by the consuls, that they could not leave the enemy without detriment to the public; that it would be better, therefore, that the election should be held by an interrex, than that one of the consuls should be called away from the war.

And I could wish that what I am about to bring before you, were stated at Canusium, before the army itself, the best witness of every man's cowardice or valour; or at least that one person, Publius Sempronius, were here, whom had they followed as their leader, they would this day have been soldiers in the Roman camp, and not prisoners in the power of the enemy.

fortune should take any turn, do you hope to obtain that peace when we shall be vanquished which no one is willing to grant now we are victorious.

Out of the five hundred and seventy who formed the garrison, almost one half were destroyed by sword or famine; the rest returned safe to Praeneste with their praetor Manicius, who had formerly been a scribe.

Extend the arms toward the person addressed, one hand open, palm to the front, resting on the other hand, fist closed.

FORWARD, HALF STEP, HALT, and MARK TIME may be executed one from the other in quick or double time.

Then it dropped and became aimless and erratic, puffing gently first from one quarter and then another.

The net was full of mud and slime and small oysters, with here and there a large one.

"No one's ever yet gone any farther with me than I wanted!"

And they're all crazy to dress meBertha Shallum will tell you so: she says no one ever had such a chance!

The value of one was fixed at $1000, and the other at $800; which sums are to be re-imbursed to their respective owners out of the state treasury."

Reader, as we proceed to these extracts, remember our motto'True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear.' Mr. P. ABDIE, of New Orleans, advertises in the New Orleans Bee, of January 29, 1838, for one of his female slaves, as follows; "Ranaway, the negro wench named Betsey, aged about 22 years, handsome-faced, and good countenance; having the marks of the whip behind her neck, and SEVERAL OTHERS ON HER RUMP.