You have done the most foolish andthe manliest thing I ever knew

His compliments to most people are varied with astonishing grace and ingenuity; his accounts of his condition often sufficient to bring the tears into the manliest eyes; and his ceaseless and vain efforts to procure his liberation mortifying when we think of himself, and exasperating when we think of the petty despot who detained him in so long, so degrading, and so worse than useless a confinement.

It is refreshing, too, to know that with the strongest and manliest good sense, he entirely repudiated that dog-like brutality of behaviour, and repulsive eccentricity of self-neglect, which characterised not a few of the Cynic leaders.

Every fellow had whitened his belts, burnished his arms, curled his moustache, and was scowling his manliest for Uncle Sam's approval.

But, as a necessary consequent of this spirit, as its implied complement in the balance of human nature, we find, as a distinct trait in the lives of many of the manliest ancients, an occasional prevalence of a spirit of despondency, a recognition of the ultimate weakness of man when brought by himself face to face with the wall of opposing circumstance and the resistless force of Fate.

We think that the invitation to Paine was one of the manliest acts of Jefferson's life.

His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty.

His classicism is always tempered, like Dryden's, by a humane and sensible dislike of pedantry; he sets no store by the unities; in his preface to Shakespeare he allows more than a "classic" could have been expected to admit, writing in it, in truth, some of the manliest and wisest things in Shakespearean literature.

He broke away and strode off up the hillside with his longest, manliest stride.

Now a man could, if he felt rightly in the matter, run after his hat with the manliest ardour and the most sacred joy.

Then, Oedipus, on crowded theatres, Drew all admiring eyes and listening ears: The pleased spectator shouted every line, The noblest, manliest, and the best design!

A handsome apology is the handsomest thing in the worldand the manliest and the womanliest.

But behind his satiric mask he concealed the manliest tenderness, and a reverence for every thing in human nature that is good and true.

Happily, one of the blithest, manliest, completest spirits of our times was a matchless writer of lettersStevenson.

Why wouldn't you all try it, especially as the captain of the "Karnak" is an excellent sailor, and the kindest and manliest of conductors? FROM NASSAU TO CUBA.

We know which sorrow is the manliest, which appeals to our sympathy, but who can measure the depth of John Norton's suffering?

On the tombstone of Dibdin, the celebrated song composer, in St. Martin's, by Pancras New Church, is the first verse of his Tom Bowling: "His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft, Faithful on earth he did his duty,

In this account Royce makes by far the manliest of the post-hegelian attempts to read some empirically apprehensible content into the notion of our relation to the absolute mind.

They were the two manliest and most wholesome men of genius of their time.

Somewhere in France lay buried the tenderest heart, the manliest man God ever put into the world.

This class was naturally recruited, in a long period of constant warfare, from the manliest and the most adventurous, and all the while the process of elimination went on, the timid and the feeble being sorted out, and only "a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength," to borrow Emerson's phrase, surviving to form families and the ranks of the samurai.

Still, I think it will not be overset this bout"another of those utterances of a cheerful courage under the prostration of pain which reveal to us the manliest side of Sterne's nature.

That maiden's nose, that puppy's eyes, Which I this happy day saw, They've touched the manliest chords that rise I' the breast of Gifford Crayshaw.

The highest rank, the greatest talent, the loveliest of beauty's daughters, the manliest and noblest of her sons, were all assembled in that flood of light which every apartment might be termed.

To us he seems one of the manliest of men, thoughtful for others, even for dumb beasts.