Can I, Madam, give you a greater Proof of my Passion for you, than to endure this for your sake?

The German Press during the last thirty years, as well as many books published in the Fatherland, contains ample proof of German brutality at home, and above all, of the legal brutality of German non-commissioned and commissioned officers.

The Dying Gladiator, which ornaments the capitol, is alone a magnificent proof of the perfection to which sculpture was carried centuries after the art had culminated at Athens.

exclaimed Roswell, astonished at this proof of sagacity and enterprise, even in men who are renowned for scenting dollars from pole to pole.

But it is a melancholy proof of the fleeting character and instability of popular favor which is supplied by the recollection that these very artisans who were now so vociferous, and undoubtedly at this moment so sincere in their profession of loyalty, were afterward her foul and ferocious enemies.

The authority which Mandat had wrung from him on the previous morning was, in their eyes, a proof of unpardonable weakness.

I have gained much by still finding, on this occasion, a new proof of your entire devotion to me.

In a former time, a former time that was but yesterday, I knewfor in a drawer full of poems, dramas and half-finished tales I had proof of itthat there had once existed a certain Jules Labarthe who had come to Paris with the hope of becoming a great man.

I wish no other proof of this than the deplorable fact of which I have just made mention: the conduct of the Tract Society, the internal crisis which it has experienced, the reprobation which it encounters, in Europe as in America.

Up to this day there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Sheridan's eloquence had no more effect than the clear proof of Hastings' guilt, and the impeachment, as usual, was but a troublesome subterfuge, to satisfy the Opposition and dust the eyeballs of the country.

I believe neither in your story nor in you, and I defy you to the proof of this vile charge against the dead!' 'In other words you mean that you will keep the money and jewels which Lord Maulevrier stole from my father?' 'I deny the fact that any such jewels or money ever passed into his lordship's possession.

Nothing can palliate the fearful sin and almost more fearful course of miserable deception; but he might, by taking the one right and honourable course of resigning his leadershipif only for a timeat least have given a proof of shame, and have saved England and Ireland from the terrible pain of discussion and disagreement, and from the danger to Home Rule which his retention of the post must cause.

The following cases afford further proof of the same lamentable truth; the first is extracted from a morning paper of the 20th of September, 1824.

We fancied this a proof of defeat, but the fact was simply thus: the peasants, from whom the horses had been taken, finding the drivers of the wagons absent from their posts, seized the opportunity to cut the traces, and gallop off with their cattle.

But the greatest proof of this great lack was shown in his dealings with the serf-system.

But we have no proof of this.

"This was plain enough, and was proof of the understanding that existed between the lovers.

No one has shown interest in me; no one has given proof of his sympathyneither my uncle, nor my brother, nor my nephew.

The current notion that such stories are proof of conjugal devotion is the fifth of the mistakes to be corrected in this chapter.

To Browning this was knowledgeknowledge borne in upon him just because of human life as he saw it, which to him was a clear proof of the great destiny of the race.

[Illustration: Mrs. David Hunt A Generous Supporter of the Woman's Journal] One proof of our faith is that we find working in the Woman's Journal office year after year is in some ways like living in a fairy story.

Similarly the Indians of St. Juan Capistrano in California used to be branded on some part of their bodies, generally on the right arm, but sometimes on the leg also, not as a proof of manly fortitude, but because they believed that the custom "added greater strength to the nerves, and gave a better pulse for the management of the bow."

From this the conclusion immediately follows that he, the pedagogue, is a better man than they, because he has not such passionsa proof of which lies in the fact that he does not conquer Asia, or vanquish Darius and Porus, but, while he enjoys life himself, lets others enjoy it too.

Whenever anything seems absolutely impossible, the word of a true person is the only proof of it worth anything.