"Now tell me, dearest husband, I pray thee tell me true, Who were thy parents, and what land thy birth and nurture knew?

She wept, she wrung her hands, she called for death and execrated her nurture.

Not a word is said in the whole manifesto about the human and social responsibilities of this vast Empire; not a word about the guardianship and nurture of native races, their guidance and assistance among the pitfalls of civilization; not a word about the principles of honour and just dealing with regard to our civilized neighbour-nations in Europe and elsewhere; not a word about the political freedom and welfare of all classes at home.

This is but too apt to be their interpretation of the phrase "modernity in child nurture."

cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame. serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to^, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of &c 459; entertain; smooth the bed of death.

On the contrary, no care that can be used in the construction of our Government, no division of powers, no distribution of checks in its several departments, will prove effectual to keep us a free people if this spirit is suffered to decay; and decay it will without constant nurture.

The whole South is in a state of excitement [ ... ] [ ] nurture [ ] and re- [ ] high [ ] be for [ ] they are [ ] and only remember they are rebels[? ].

But fortunately for us, in this scientific age, words and the use of words no longer serve as the basis of education or as the chief nurture of young life.

solutorum miserâ ambitione gravique; the life of a man far more happily employed than in the composition of political pamphlets, or in the nurture of political discontent.

Yet a tree which would speedily die under that nurture might do very fairly, might even do magnificently, if it had fair play, if it got its chance of common sunshine and shower.

No organization can draw its nurture permanently from sources outside of itself, although many a movement has been nursed through its early stages of uncertainty and struggle by the aid of the sympathetic and understanding outsider.

Sunaparant has to nurture, cultivate and discover new journalistic talent.

Far more stress was laid upon special seasons and measures of spiritual interest and activity than nowless upon Christian nurture as a means of grace, and upon the steady, normal development of church life.

Art of Travel (several subsequent editions, the last in 1872, Murray); 1869: Hereditary Genius, its Laws and Consequences (Macmillan); 1874: English Men of Science, their Nature and their Nurture (Macmillan).

NURTURE AND NATURE

Their effects are difficult to separate; the same character has many phases; Renaissance; changes owing merely to love of change; feminine fashions; periodical sequences of changed character in birds; the interaction of nurture and nature.

Whoever it may be that sows the evil seed of slander, the human soil is all too evilly ready to receive it, to give it nurture, and to reproduce it in crops persistent as the wild carrot and flamboyant as the wild mustard.

"I mutht make inquireth bout thith," said Mr. Skinner, edging out of reach of the station-master's concluding generalisations about the responsibility attaching to the excessive nurture of hens.... Going through Urshot Mr. Skinner was hailed by a lime-burner from the pits over by Hankey and asked if he was looking for his hens.

With that book Gustavus Vasa was to protect and nurture the freedom of the land of flowing splendors, while Angelo was transcribing sacred scenes upon the Sistine vault or fixing them in stone.

SMITH, H. SHELTON. Faith and nurture.

They troubled themselves with no theories of education, but mingled gentle nurture with "wholesome neglect."

They came from the depth of his Love, and it was his religion so to nurture and educate his sensitiveness to Beauty and his power to love and create it, that his works of Art should be deeds of passionate worship and expressions of a godlike humanity.

They will make it, what it has always been, a place of worship; the shrine of the spirit; the home of Christian nurture; a school of instruction; a fount of inspiration; a seminary of religion; the meeting-place of man and God.

Every hasty word of the violent, and every public deliberation of the wise as well, were made to nurture this theory.

Desires and capacities which, with careful nurture, might have come to a fair fruit, are chilled and nipped by the frost of neglect and ridicule.