Alfred did not aim to be an original legislator, like Moses or Solon, but selected from the Mosaic code, and also from the laws of Ethelbert, Ina, Offa, and other Saxon princes, those regulations which he considered best adapted to the circumstances of the people whom he governed.

One of the peculiarities of his legislation was compensation for crime,seen alike in the Mosaic dispensation and in the old customs of the Germanic nations in their native forests.

polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous^, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform^; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; and what not?

spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly, tortoise shell; mackerel, mackerel sky; zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre, ocelot, ophite^, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble. check, plaid, tartan, patchwork; marquetry-, parquetry; mosaic, tesserae^, strigae^; chessboard, checkers, chequers; harlequin; Joseph's coat; tricolor.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic.

Pico dabbled in the black arts, wrote learnedly (in his room at the Badia of Fiesole) on the Mosaic law, was an amorous poet in Italian as well as a serious poet in Latin, and in everything he did was interesting and curious, steeped in Renaissance culture, and inspired by the wish to reconcile the past and the present and humanize Christ and the Fathers.

Alessio, who was born in 1427, was an open-handed ingenious man who could not only paint and do mosaic

Among various objects of European furniture, we saw some handsome mirrors, clocks, vases, and tables of Florentine mosaic, or variegated marble.

We know that gentians grow on the Alps, and olives on the Apennines; but we do not enough conceive for ourselves that variegated mosaic of the world's surface which a bird sees in its migration, that difference between the district of the gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind.

If the Jews held slaves, they must have done so in open and flagrant violation of the letter and the spirit of the Mosaic Dispensation.

Till that is done, we hold ourselves excused from attempting to prove what we now repeat, that if the Jews during our Savior's incarnation held slaves, they must have done so in open and flagrant violation of the letter and the spirit of the Mosaic Dispensation.

Under the Mosaic dispensation it was imperatively commanded,"Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him."

If the Jews held slaves, they must have done in open and flagrant violation of the letter and the spirit of the Mosaic Dispensation.

Till that is done, we hold ourselves excused from attempting to prove what we now repeat, that if the Jews during our Savior's incarnation held slaves, they must have done so in open and flagrant violation of the letter and spirit of the Mosaic Dispensation.

The Kaiser had it built to command every view of the countryside and be seen from everywhere, as a monument to his own greatnessthe biggest, lordliest, most expensive hospice that his architects could fashion, with pictures in mosaic on the walls and ceilings of the Kaiser and his ancestors in league with the Almighty.

In the front of our engraving is represented a spacious circular enclosure which will be made, by an ornamental railing of mosaic gold, and divided into compartments by terms.

Moderation enjoined by the Mosaic law in the punishment of offenders.

They are exquisite specimens of the evergreen freshness of old poetry, and by their contrast with contemporary effusions will contribute to the mosaic of our sheet.

We can go back to the splendid Byzantine churches, with their wealth of mosaic, their subdued splendor of dulled gold covering arch and pillar as a background for the glow of color with which the artists of Constantine worked,in a rigid convention as to form which gives their figures an impressive air, but which is ill-suited to the representation of the divine Mother and Child.

" Upon which I was folded fondly against a mosaic brooch containing a lock of hair of the late Mr. Gurrage.

A company called the Great Western had mosaic pictures of the patron saint of each boat in the saloon.

If we hold the precious heritage of an artist's mindthat divine and rare something which gives form, color, and completeness to a story, a dream or a visionthen very little difficulty follows in making vitreous mosaic a valued servant in the realization of a fine creation.

I mistook the title of the subject in thinking that it was mosaic only, and at the last moment found it was marble and mosaic.

I mistook the title of the subject in thinking that it was mosaic only, and at the last moment found it was marble and mosaic.

I'm all right," said the remarkable criminal, about to suffer by the Mosaic law at the hands of Christians, to receive Old Testament mercy from the disciples of the New, to be done-by as he had done.