There, clearly, was Henshaw's motive; an incentive to an unscrupulous man to use every art, fair and unfair, to force himself into her favour.

Yet some one had done it, and who had a greater incentive than Charlie Mershone? Poor Mrs. Merrick was inconsolable as the days dragged by.

Is there not in this some suggestion of what may again be established as an incentive and a reward, and as well, as a vital agency for the reorganization of society? Knighthood is personal, and is for the lifetime of the recipient.

They were not followed up, and in the mean time had to some extent passed out of memory, or, if remembered, the absence of result can hardly have acted as an incentive to fresh effort.

" Third, the great reduction of the bounty, which, being the stimulus to exertion, ceased to operate as an incentive, when from 3s.

Descartes, illustrious not only as the founder of modern metaphysics but also by his original contributions to science, might seek to conciliate the ecclesiastical authorities—his temper was timid— but his philosophical method was a powerful incentive to rationalistic thought.

The consciousness than when we cease to live our memory will be cherished, is a noble incentive to live well.

These meritorious services constitute another claim which entitles this officer to the notice of the Government, and as they come fairly within one of the conditions of the law which yet open the way to brevet promotion, the incentive it provides is fully realized by the services that have been rendered.

It withdrew from the latter the power of compelling labor, and it supplied to the former no incentive to industry.

No incentive was needed to come to rehearsals, no one thought of dropping out.

[Illustration: A GREAT INCENTIVE.

He has also promised that nations shall learn war no more, and in his faithfulness we have all the incentive which certainty of ultimate success can give to human exertion.

The story had become current that I would not talk to Sam till I had settled the business with his master; and as they generally professed to believe that abolitionists wished to incite the slave against their master, by every mischievous incentive they could devise, my conduct naturally enough seemed to them remarkable.

The very fact that they are entitled to draw exactly the same salary whether the public estate improves or not, removes the incentive that would otherwise exist, even if they were the absentee landlords of the property, while the constant liability to be transferred from one district to another aggravates the difficulty of the situation.

The poetic life that his perceptions were now able to enjoy, in inanimate nature, would be such a perpetual gratification to his taste,such an incentive to explorations and discoveries!

Even the females now appeared in arms; there being no such incentive to patriotism, on occasions of the kind, as the cry that the battle has been won.

In a system that is founded on fear, when once that fear is removedas it inevitably will be with the growth of enlightenmentthere remains no basis of action, no incentive to good.

The conviction of this truth has a literary power and incentive not to be found in "the scientific method" or any of its corollaries.

The peace and prosperity in the days of Simon gave the opportunity and the incentive to put in final form the earlier collections of psalms and probably to add the introduction found in Psalms 1-2 and the concluding doxology in Psalm 150.

Yet the lady had her little agitations, and found them, no doubt, rather an incentive to existence than otherwise.

This is all the more noteworthy because the idea of vocation was not the early incentive to monastic life.

We learn from his commendatory sonnet on the 'Dymocke' Pastor fido that he had known Guarini personally in Italy, an accident which supplies an interesting link between the dramas of the two countries, and might suggest a specific incentive to the composition of his pastorals, were any such needed.

No doubt it supplied the incentive that induced a man like Fletcher to bid for a hopeless success in such a play as the Faithful Shepherdess, and placed a heavy debt to the account of Thomas Randolph when he composed his Amyntas.

He felt paralysed, numb, even his brain functioning strangely, the danger of his helpless condition its only incentive to action.

Here or elsewhere, at any rate, he came under the influence of the Bellini, of Mantegna, and more particularly of Jacopo dei Barbarithe painter and engraver to whom he owed the incentive to study the proportions of the human bodya study which henceforth became the most absorbing interest of his life.