Not only was his education in the ordinary branches of youthful knowledge neglected, but no care was even taken to cultivate his taste or to polish his manners, though a certain delicacy of taste and refinement of manners were regarded by the courtiers, and by Louis XV.

That counsel was too entirely in harmony with the active benevolence of the new monarch to be neglected.

This has heretofore been so far neglected, as regards the marine, that not long before I arrived the commander of a French ship of war was much chagrined, on firing a salute as he passed the battery at New York, to find that his courtesy was not returned in the customary way.

His education was not entirely neglected, but beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic, his youthful attainments were small.

But he neglected no serious affairs; his farm, his stock, the sale of his produce, were all admirably conducted and on a plane of widely recognized honor and integrity.

So confident was Howe of crushing the only army opposed to him, that he neglected opportunities and made mistakes.

"Optics were not neglected.

"The Observatory, when I took charge of it, had only one instrumentthe Transit-Instrument The principles however which I laid down for my own direction were adapted to the expected complete equipment, Planets (totally neglected at Greenwich) were to be observed.

XXV.Several months had now elapsed, and winter was almost gone, and Caesar's legions and shipping were not coming to him from Brundisium, and he imagined that some opportunities had been neglected, for the winds had at least been often favourable, and he thought that he must trust to them at last.

Horses, oxen, asses, and mules were reared, chiefly to supply the animals required by the landowners, carriers, soldiers, and so forth; herds of swine and of goats also were not neglected.

Hence the Roman landholder comparatively neglected the culture of grainwhich in many rases seems to have been restricted to the raising of the quantity required for the staff of labourers(13)and gave increased attention to the production of oil and wine as well as to the breeding of cattle.

But recollecting that the Virgilian part of his education might have been neglected, I interpreted so far as to say, that perhaps at that moment the flames were catching hold of our worthy brother and next-door neighbor Ucalegon.

Meanwhile his palace remained unfinished and neglected, and continued so for a century, when it was acquired by the Grand Duchess Eleanor of Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I, who though she saw only the beginnings of its splendours lived there awhile and there brought up her doomed brood.

[Neglected river and canals offensive.]

The use of the pocket handkerchief is sadly neglected.

Where this simple precaution is neglected, many a tiger will sneak through the opening left by the pad elephant, and so silently and cautiously can they steal through the dense cover, and so cunning are they and acute, that they will take advantage of the slightest gap, and the keenest and best trained eye will fail to detect them.

In youth his education had been neglected; but, by the wise employment of his leisure, he obtained considerable reputation for learning throughout the rude region where he lived.

" "We are the miracle, for is it not one that in this world of perpetual violence we have kept a constant faith in the love and the union of men?" "Christ is expected for centuries," said Coulanges bitterly, "and when He comes, He is neglected, crucified, and then forgotten except by a handful of poor ignorant wretches, good if you like, but narrow.

But having absorbed their strength, the Sultan's Government neglected them until they milked them again.

Not the very poorthey are vastly entertainingbut the not-very-rich, highly respectable, deadly dull people, with awkward, unlovable manners, whom no one cares very much to visit or to ask to things, and who must often feel very lonely and neglected.

To heal their poor neglected bodies; to be the first to tell them of Jesushow did Festus put it?"one Jesus, which is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive"; to teach them, to help and raise them until life becomes for these natives a new and undreamed-of thingone can see how fine it is, how soul-satisfying!

Of men devoted to literature very few extend their views beyond some particular science, and the greater part seldom inquire, even in their own profession, for any authors but those whom the present mode of study happens to force upon their notice; they desire not to fill their minds with unfashionable knowledge, but contentedly resign to oblivion those books which they now find censured or neglected.

" But are we, in maintaining the principle of self-government, to overlook the unripe, or neglected, or broken powers of any of our fellow-men with whom we may be connected?or the strong passions, vicious propensities, or criminal pursuit of others?

But beyond and around all this rises the wide, bare face of the country, which they will never know the great patches of second-growth woods, the mountain pastures sown thick with stones, the barren acres of the hillside farmera desolate land, latticed with gray New England roads, dotted with commonplace or neglected houses, and pitted with the staring cellars of the abandoned homes of disheartened and defeated men.

Certain portions of his life may need to be emphasized while others are neglected.