"The land," writes Herodotus, who saw it in its prime, "has a little rain, and this nourishes the corn at the root; but the crops are matured and brought to harvest by water from the rivernot, as in Egypt, by the river flooding over the fields, but by human labour and shadufs For Babylonia, like Egypt, is one network of canals, the largest of which is navigable.

Michael Angelo was essentially an artist, living in the prime of the Renaissance.

Are the archives of the steel yard, in succeeding reigns (if haply they survive the fury of our envious enemies) showing that we flourished in prime repute, as merchants, down to the period of the commonwealth, nothing?

We know nothing of him in his prime beyond what is told in this essay, but after the great tragedy, there are in the Letters glimpses of him as a broken, querulous old man.

Appollo hence a great suspition growes: Yeare not so pleasaunt now as earst in companie; Ye walke alone and wander solitarie; The pleasaunt toyes we did frequent sometime Are worne away and growne out of prime; Your Instrument hath lost his siluer sound, That rang of late through all this grouie ground; Your bowe, wherwith the chace you did frequent, Is closde in case and long hath been unbent.

Whether it was the Prime Minister or the unhappy thief in the dock, he knew all classes and all degrees of criminality.

Whatever men may say in these days against an institution which flourished in those, ex-Prime Ministers, Dukes, Earls, and ex-Lord Chancellors, as well as future Ministers of State and future Judges, belonged to it, or sought eagerly for admission to its membership.

I had been cheered to the echo night after night and all day long, so that there was enough shouting to make a Prime Minister; my horses had time after time been taken from my carriage, and cheering voters drew me along.

The Prime Minister of the day was not to be baffled by a mere technicality, and he could soon make the Attorney-General a Judge of the High Court if that was a condition precedent.

Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study; but for an indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that the only pastor shall be the Bible, with her book called "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES."

It is possible that my right honourable friend who holds that office, and whom I am pleased to see here with us, will answer the Prime Minister's question.

I am content to rest my action upon the advice of those responsible authorities whose considered opinions have been quoted by the Prime Minister.

" The Prime Minister smiled no more.

" "You soldiers are always prating about martial law," grumbled the Prime Minister.

" The Prime Minister fumbled once more with the papers before him, but they gave him no comfort.

He turned to the Prime Minister.

" "Oh, he can have the Marines," growled the Prime Minister"if the First Lord agrees.

" "You have both made up your minds?" inquired the Prime Minister.

I have been to Italy, I have spoken to kings and prime ministers, and I am back again with you.

And he ne'er ceast to venter all in prime, Till of his age, quite was consum'd the prime.

And he ne'er ceast to venter all in prime, Till of his age, quite was consum'd the prime.

So in "Wily Beguiled" "Come, nurse, gather: A crown of roses shall adorn my head, I'll prank myself with flowers of the prime; And thus I'll spend away my primrose time.

On the dismissal of Roland and the others, he had exchanged the foreign port-folio for that of war, and was practically the prime minister, being in fact the only one whom Louis admitted to any degree of confidence; but this arrangement lasted less than a single week.

This in like manner was commenced by Cato; for the Romans possessed nothing of an earlier age except some funeral orations, most of which probably were only brought to light at a later period from family archives, such as that which the veteran Quintus Fabius, the opponent of Hannibal, delivered when an old man over his son who had died in his prime.

No wonder that the factory, like too many more, though a thriving concern to its owners, becomes "a prime nursery of vice and sorrow."