Should annihilation be the truth of things, and all the race mortal, then some day there would be a Last Man.

They replied, the love of distinctionthe vanity of being thought to have seen what had been seen by no other mortal; and they triumphantly asked me in turn, what motives Raleigh, and Riley, and Hunter, and a hundred other travellers, had for their misrepresentations.

The simple beings around me will then behold that I am mortal like themselves.

But still I am not sure," he added, with one of his faint but significant smiles, "that I am not actuated by a wish to immortalize my name; for where is the mortal who would be indifferent to this object, if he thought he could attain it?

I confess, when I witnessed these showy and costly preparations, and pictured to myself the magnificent scene for which they were intendedthose formidable animals contending in mortal conflictthe thousands of gaily dressed spectators, gazing in breathless anxiety,I repined at my lot, and regretted I had not been born in a condition which, though of less dignity, would not have cut me off from some of the most exquisite pleasures of life.

It was not like any other mortal's gradual, many-jointed getting-up; it was more like the sudden springing out of the big blade of a clasp-knife.

The natives, who know the cards as we know our A B C's, were enthralled, and began to look upon Potts as a creature of more than mortal skill.

No mortal in Pymeut had a hand like thatno mortal in all the world!

No mortal in Pymeut had a hand like thatno mortal in all the world!

And then it lost all mortal form, and became a thing as faint as the wind in the tree-tops or the humming of bees in clover.

"With nothing but an old black hat of SKAMMERHORN'S, and walking-cane, kept hanging in the hall, I haven't lost a spoon by tramps or census takers for six mortal years.

But what she saw and heard when she was with Him it is not given to the tongue of mortal to say, for it is beyond words, and beyond even thought.

A soldier is but a mortal man.

The unfortunate prisoners were yet too far away for me to distinguish their features, when a soldier standing near by, a man whom I recognized as one of those who had howled most loudly for surrender, cried with a groan as of mortal agony: "There is Seth Morton!"

Opening them immediately afterwards, he saw with relief that the phantoms had vanished, and that he confronted what at least seemed a fellow-mortal, in the ancient ratcatcher, habited precisely as Cardinal Barbadico had described, yet, for all his mean apparel, wearing the air of one wont to confer with the potentates of the earth on other subjects than the extermination of rats.

"Your bodies are mortal and subject to fate; but they receive a sort of immortality by the remembrance of what actions they have done; and I would have you so in love with this immortality that you may pursue after glory, and that when you have undergone the greatest difficulties you may not scruple for such things to lose your lives.

"It is but right," said he, "that the sharpest arrows should be given to him who knows best how to inflict mortal wounds with them."

Tho' mute the lips on which I hung, Their silence speaks more loud to me Than any voice from mortal tongue, "What Sayid was let Malec be.

ON THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE Mortal joys, however pure, Soon their turbid source betray; Mortal bliss, however sure, Soon must totter and decay.

ON THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE Mortal joys, however pure, Soon their turbid source betray; Mortal bliss, however sure, Soon must totter and decay.

What can a mortal desire more for his bi-parted nature?

I should as soon have insulted the Answerer of Salmasius when he awoke up from his ended task, and saw no more with mortal vision.

"The desperate attempt," says Talfourd, "to compel the gentle optimist to speak ill of a mortal creature produced no happier success than the answer, 'Why, I should think, Mr. Lamb, he must have been rather an eccentric character.'

if his fright proceeded from any mortal?

Beauty, truth, love, these are God, whom it is the supreme desire of the soul to comprehend, and by the contemplation of whom the mortal soul sustains itself.