It was bad enough in WILKIE COLLINS to banish his dramatis personae to Scotland; but he was nevertheless too humane to send them to Michigan.) JULIUS DELAMAYN.

After three hours of this sort of thing a humane person in the audience brings in a saw and begins to file it.

In whatever land you live, serve under some wise and good man among those in high office, and make friends with the more humane of its men of education.

"Although," said King Wu, "he is surrounded by his near relatives, they are not to be compared with men of humane spirit.

Captains, whose vessels have been made hells-afloat by their tyranny, have found abundant testimony in the courts of law to their gentle and humane deportment on land.

This belief may have been encouraged, if not invented, for a humane purpose: but how are we to account for the efficacy of the Irish stone in curing swellings caused by venomous reptiles, by merely being rubbed upon the part affected?

My chief tormentor, being a man of mild temper and humane disposition, considers that it might at first suffice to employ gentle measures, such, for example, as suspending thee head downwards in the smoke of a wood fire, and filling thy nostrils with red pepper.

Does it not seem that the pretended reformer, the founder of independence of thought, the furious declaimer against the oppression and tyranny of the popes, should have been animated with the most humane sentiments toward that people?

He mentioned other instances of the same humane feeling; and he said, "After what I have seen of them here, I say, 'Let me fall into the hands of the poor.'" "They who, half-fed, feed the breadless, in the travail of distress; They who, taking from a little, give to those who still have less; They who, needy, yet can pity when they look on greater need; These are Charity's disciples,these are Mercy's sons indeed.

Still, not one of the three hardworking, really civil, and even humane men, who now stood covered in the library of Mr. Effingham, was probably conscious of the impropriety of which he was guilty, or was doing more than insensibly yielding to a vicious and vulgar practice.

But on the smaller estates of olive-yard and vineyard their condition was better, and a humane owner who chose his overseers carefully might possibly reproduce something of the old feeling of participation in the life as well as the industry of the economic unit.

We have become too humane for the triumphs of Cæsar not to be repugnant to our feelings.

Here my friend accosted me with his natural firmness of tone, which before had been considerably subdued by humane emotions, and said "You must breakfast with us.

In our strife in the Philippines, from 1899 to 1902, many of us were proud to be told that we were conducting a "humane war."

This was inconvenient for its victims, but its purpose was humane.

This also was a humane purpose.

the humane calculation was not only made but openly and unhesitatingly avowed that the planters found it upon the whole their most profitable plan to work off (kill with labour) their whole number of slaves about once in seven years, and renew the whole stock."

It says:Even if you could be sure that what you take for vice is soand the history of persecution shows how careful you should be in this preliminary pointeven then it is an undoubted and, indeed, a necessary tendency of this facile repressive legislation, to make those who resort to it neglect the more effective, humane, and durable kinds of preventive legislation.

Italian art recognised their claim to stand beside Madonna and the Saints in the Pantheon of humane culture; but the painters re-made them in accordance with the modern spirit.

Gunpowder, a humane discovery.

Now War becomes the business of the State: The most humane, the most pacific men, Must arm for War, or lose all they hold dear: The sorrows of the Aged, Infant cries, And Female Tears, resistlessly prevail: Can gentlest natures be in love with Peace, When Love, most tender Love, excites to War?

Both the parents, as medical men, agreed that it would be better that the young couple should not live together for two or three years, the very tender age of Bridget, in particular, rendering this humane, as well as discreet.

Cramming was harmful to the student; the elective method was the only humane one.

He was of a nature exceedingly humane and compassionate; easily forgiving injuries, and capable of a prompt and sincere reconciliation with them who had offended him.

The best test of social protective laws is their contribution to a higher independence and to a freer competition on a higher, more worthy, and more humane plane. § 10.