He had not yet emerged from the eternity of the past, to grapple with the present, or encounter the retributions of the eternity which is to come.

When and where the career of these germs of being, starting from points so wide asunder, are to meet, and how the balances of good and evil, of suffering and enjoyment of sinning and retribution, are to be adjusted at last?

The Angel of Retribution descended; and snatching the consummate Philanthropist to his bosom, he rose again; while all the astonished multitude, now reviving from their terror, gazed only on the celestial apparition; and heard the reascending Seraph thus address the beneficent spirit now committed to his care: "Thou faithful servant of Heaven!

[Illustration: RETRIBUTION.

If he has been led to expect natural retributions, he will have a wholesome fear of putting his hand in the fire, since he knows the inevitable consequences.

Nature's retributions, like her rewards, are cumulative.

If it must be destroyed, from the prevalence of the same vices which have uniformly undermined all empires,utter and unspeakable rottenness and depravity,in spite of Christianity, whether nominal or real; if eternal justice must bear sway on this earth, bringing its fearful retributions for the abuse of privileges and general wickedness,then we accept the natural effects of that violence which consummated the ruin.

As to the crimes they were guilty of towards one another, I had nothing to do with them; they were national, and I ought to leave them to the justice of God, who is the governor of nations, and knows how, by national punishments, to make a just retribution for national offences, and to bring public judgments upon those who offend in a public manner, by such ways as best please him.

By what standard must our character be estimated, and the retributions of eternity be awarded?

If our principles be trueour arguments rightif slaveholders be menand God have not delivered over our guilty country to the retributions of the oppressor, not only of the STRANGER but of the NATIVEour success is certain.

By what standard must our character be estimated, and the retributions of eternity be awarded?

By what standard must our character be estimated, and the retributions of eternity be awarded?

If our principles be trueour arguments rightif slaveholders be menand God have not delivered over our guilty country to the retributions of the oppressor, not only of the STRANGER but of the NATIVEour success is certain.

By what standard must our character be estimated, and the retributions of eternity be awarded?

What is punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution, will be seldom discovered; and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime, till they deserve death, because, if they had been sooner prosecuted, they would have suffered death before they deserved it.

a fearful retribution shall avenge this crime.

It is said that the train of accidents that befell the Conqueror's family in the Forest was considered by Hampshire folk to be a just retribution for his iniquity in "making" it.

It is to be feared a heavy retribution awaits the white man, the pitiless author of their extermination.

If the sternest foe of the Pilgrims across the water could have looked upon the exiles in their winter dreariness, hungry, wasted, dying, cowering beneath the accumulation of their woes, he might have regarded the scene as presenting but a reasonable retribution upon a stolid obstinacy in the most direful and needless self-inflictions.

If aught in his life merited retribution, the man paid the price a hundred times over and over that second.

BRUSH, BERNICE BROWN. Retribution.

The unfortunate cacophony of the opening is the retribution on the translator for not having the courage to begin with a hypermetrical line.

The heroine so far of my own story, I cannot yet voluntarily relinquish the privilege of sympathy, so dear to the narrator of adventure, though I did, indeed, for a time forget my own identity in the dark shadow, the mysterious crimes, the unprecedented and speedy retributions that followed quickly on the heels of guilt at Beauseincourt.

Nor will I indulge a doubt but that the sense of justice of Great Britain will constrain her to make retribution for any wrong or loss which any American citizen engaged in the prosecution of lawful commerce may have experienced at the hands of her cruisers or other public authorities.

CHAPTER XXV. RETRIBUTION.