Why is it that all the queer isms of the day, such as socialism, are more cultivated by Red Republicans than by any other political sect? Answer.

It means sleep-ism; yet manifestly it deals with characteristics which are utterly unlike those of sleep; and it is precisely these that need to be explained away in conformity with received laws, unless we are to find in these phenomena evidence of such modes of being and operation as every kind of religion postulates.

Our girls are acknowledged to be uncommonly pretty, witty and wise, but some of us wish they had more health and less excitement, more domestic accomplishments and fewer ologies and isms, and were contented with simple pleasures and the old-fashioned virtues, and not quite so fond of the fast, frivolous life that makes them old so soon.

Primitive Methodism has reached deeper depths than many other creedshas touched harder, wilder, ruder souls than nearly "all the isms" put together.

For a short time the Preston branch of these Methodists worshipped in that mystic nursery of germinating "isms" called Vauxhall-road Chapel; and in the year named they erected in the Orchard a building for their own spiritual improvement.

"After all," he said, "of all the 'isms, I know none so bad as rheumatism."

After such admissions, no other possible defence can be made for Calvinism or any other 'ism' than the wretched recrimination: "Why, yours, Dr. Priestley, is just as bad!"Yea, and no wonder:for in essentials both are the same.

Such was the new departure in propaganda instituted by a little magazine, mean in appearance, as the mouthpieces of all despised 'isms' seem to be, with the first number of which, need one say, ended Narcissus' ascent of 'The Path.'

Dear Corelli, My sister's cold is as obstinate as an old Handelian, whom a modern amateur is trying to convert to Mozart-ism.

Mr. Cushing represents Massachusetts to be a Babel of isms, so many square miles of Bedlam, from Boston Corner to Provincetown.

He talked with menot to meabout the birds and the trees and the sunsets, and then about the deeper things of life, until, before I realized it, I was sane and sensible once more, serene and happy in the simple faith of my childhood, with all the isms and ologies a mere bad dream in the dim past.

Among other things, to give the impression that he was not the author of the poem, he puts in a free criticism of himself: There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme.

The principal figures of Orthography are two; namely, Mi-me'-sis and Ar'-cha-ism.

Of the Americans, by far the greater proportion were born in the Northeastern States; and the three principal characters in the history of the ChurchSmith, Young, and Kimballall originated in Vermont, but were reared in Western New York, a region which has been the hot-bed of American isms from the discovery of the Golden Bible to the outbreak of the Rochester rappings.

Elenor Hosta Lawson (A); 9Jan67; R401741. ISMS make people slaves of the financiers.

Elenor Hosta Lawson (A); 9Jan67; R401741. ISMS make people slaves of the financiers.

Samuel Baker writes in one of his books of African exploration (Ism., 341): "Girls are always purchased if required as wives.

The Arabians have a science called Ism Allah, or the science of the name of God; and the Talmudists and Rabbins have written copiously on the same subject.

Wise men pity and ridicule you, and fools pity and ridicule meyou as the victims of folly and fashion, me as the representative of many of the disagreeable 'isms' of the age, as they choose to style liberal opinions.

Never did all the isms of philanthropy, politics, or of social and moral reform generally have such a harmonious trysting time of it.

The fundamental doctrines of materialism, like those of spiritualism, and most other "isms," lie outside "the limits of philosophical inquiry," and David Hume's great service to humanity is his irrefragable demonstration of what these limits are.

I mean in contradiction to Arminianism, and all the isms that were ever broached in this world of ignorance and error.

It has developed a new material and social order; but the fact is not as yet fully recognized that it has developed a new womanthe woman who works with, other women; the woman in clubs, in societies; the woman who helps to form a body of women; who finds fellowship with her own sex, outside of the church, outside of any ism, or hobby, but simply on the ground of kinship and humanity.

Shy away from these things that end in an ism, my boy.

Many a Congressman compared Morse and his experiments to mesmerism and similar "isms," and insisted that if the Government gave funds for this experiment it would be called upon to supply funds for senseless trials of weird schemes.