But however we choose to apportion the blame or at least the responsibility for the situation among the various Governments concerned, the main point and the main lesson of it all is to see that any such apportionment does not much matter!

The carriage rolled away; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing lesson.

It was the one accomplishment she most longed to acquire, and she entered into the first lesson with an eagerness that made her teacher smile approvingly.

He had been tempted, as many young Englishmen still are, to gamble when on his travels, but his debt taught him a lesson which saved him from ever after getting into trouble in this way.

What these Tales have been to you in childhood, that and much more it is my wish that the true Plays of Shakespear may prove to you in older yearsenrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions, to teach you courtesy, benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these virtues, his pages are full.

One lesson learn, one sentence scan, One title and one colophon Virtue is that becrowns a Man! High Virtue's best is eloquent With spur and not with martingall: Swear not to her thou'rt continent: BE COURTEOUS, BRAVE, AND LIBERAL.

An object lesson of the power and possibilities of the great fighting machine must be given somewhere.

Our lesson in Communism has rendered all agitation on such matters, all tendency to democratic institutions, all appeals to popular passions, utterly odious and alarming to us.

" You wished to teach him that lesson, you told Him as much, you know, in this very room, 'Twas about this hour, for the twilight gloom As now, was enwrapping you, fold on fold.

Alas, for the hour I entered in Your halls of lordly mirth; For I lost there, Jenny Allen, All that gives life worth; You taught your teacher, Jenny, The saddest lesson of earth.

"Thundering good lesson,Here, count noses.

It helped him to learn the cold, salutary lesson, that one exploit does not make a victory.

And that "Lucy" book hidden in her desk was the cause of it; she had taken it out for just one delicious moment, and the moment had extended itself into an hour and a half, and the spelling lesson was unlearned and the three hard examples in complex fractions unworked.

"And don't you miss your lesson to-morrow.

Your courage under misfortune shall be a lesson to me, but I cannot, I cannot bear to see it.

The younger boys have a string put round the neck, which confines them to the place during the lesson, but I observed it did not confine their attention.

After our Scripture lesson a portion of time was devoted to geography, particularly Bible geography; then he would talk to them of places where he had travelled: his descriptions of the Ionian Islands, the people and the schools he had visited there, used to be a favorite theme, and very interesting.

Our manufacturers have been alarming the whole nation, and threatening us with something like political revolution; but they have received a severe lesson, and many of our jails are filled with the victims of unprincipled agitators.

The funeral was attended by the students from the college, and a large number of others; for the professor is much beloved, and the affecting situation of his son has been a lesson of instruction to the young people who used to associate with him, and seems to have had an effect on the whole town.

After viewing the premises and hearing a lesson in Arabic, we saw the pupils assembled in the schoolroom.

Here is another containing a similar lesson.

This is glorious; and its lesson of quiet and retirement we need more than ever in these hurried days upon which we have fallen.

No lesson, Madam, but Lacrymae's?

That any species of big game will rapidly increase if absolutely protected is perfectly well known; and in the Yellowstone Park we have ever before us an object lesson, which shows precisely what effective protection of game can do.

"You've taught him a lesson that he needed, for it was always a word and a blow with him, and the word alone was worth five shillin' in a public court.