If his deductions could have been proved to be correct, all women were creatures who, by reason of their sevenfold diabolic possession, were not capable of independent thought or action, and who should in tears and humility place themselves absolutely under the direction and authority of the other sex.

That arms, with awe more awful, thy commands; And foul transgression dips in sevenfold guilt!

His parents, wondering at this strange event, Took counsel of the soothsayers in this; Who told them that these sevenfold eagles' flight Forefigured his seven times consulship: And we ourselves (except bewitch'd with pride) Have seen him six times in the capitol, Accompanied with rods and axes too.

Long, fortunate, and happy life betide Old Marius in his sevenfold consulship.

Dropping our sevenfold virtues down, As priceless jewels in the crown Of Christ, our new-born King.

Did not I crop the sevenfold hydra's crest, And with a river cleans'd Augaea's stable? APP.

Did not I crush a sevenfold custard's crust, And with my tongue swept a well-furnish'd table? TAC.

" 325 O'er the green brinks of Severn's oozy bed, In changeful rings, her sprightly troop She led; PAN tripp'd before, where Eudness shades the mead, And blew with glowing lip his sevenfold reed; Emerging Naiads

[Sevenfold reed.

The sevenfold reed, with which Pan is frequently described, seems to indicate, that he was the inventor of the musical gamut.

From his roof he could look over the rising battlements of black and white and crimson and blue and red and silver and gold, to the hill where the summer palace of the Parthian emperors glittered like a jewel in a sevenfold crown.

The Greater Pilgrimage to Mecca, comprising the sevenfold circuit of the Kaaba and the kissing of the sacred Black Stone, and culminating in a procession to the holy places of Mina and Arafat, could only be undertaken in Dzul-Higg, corresponding in the time of Mahomet to our March.

He made the sevenfold circuit thereof and kissed the Black Stone.

Wrath, envy, trouble, and unquietness, and fear of death, and rigour, and strife, and such things come to both man and beast, but sevenfold to the ungodly."

The Stoical philosophy may be compared to a torch which flings a faint gleam here and there in the dusky recesses of a mighty cavern; Christianity to the sun pouring into the inmost depths of the same cavern its sevenfold illumination.

To Lorenzo, however, was reserved the distinction of placing upon that mighty column its magnificent copestone, and he adorned it with the sevenfold balls of his escutcheon, whilst on the summit he held unfurled the great Red Cross Oriflamme of Florence.

In "Das Märchen von dem Rhein und dem Müller Radlauf," Loreley is portrayed in a sevenfold capacity, as it were: seven archways lead to seven doors that open onto seven stairways that lead to a large hall in which Frau Lureley sits on a sevenfold throne with seven crowns upon her head and her seven daughters around her.

In "Das Märchen von dem Rhein und dem Müller Radlauf," Loreley is portrayed in a sevenfold capacity, as it were: seven archways lead to seven doors that open onto seven stairways that lead to a large hall in which Frau Lureley sits on a sevenfold throne with seven crowns upon her head and her seven daughters around her.

Government is not a royal mystery, to be shut off, like old Deiokes, by a sevenfold wall from the ordinary business of life.

Had we known what was coming, our memories would, no doubt, have been rendered thereby sevenfold more retentive, and little that fell from her lips would have been lost.

The propriety of the distinction here made, is at least questionable; and I incline to consider the second example a simple sentence, as well as the first; because what the writer calls a separation into seven, involves a change of are to is, and of rays to ray, as well as a sevenfold repetition of this altered predicate, "is a refrangible ray of light."

" The principles that have generally been held to govern the use of language appear to him mere arbitrary rules, invented by the "sevenfold censorship" and the Spanish Inquisition, for the purpose of preventing the free communication of ideas.

It is this which constitutes the science and the philosophy of Freemasonry, and it is this alone which will return the scholar who devotes himself to the task a sevenfold reward for his labor.

Here and there on the exposed slopes the day's warmththe thermometer was nearly forty degreesand the night's cold had made a bald and shining crust upon the snow; but the most part was soft powdered stuff, ready to catch the light on a thousand crystals and multiply it sevenfold.

No! Economy, temperance, and industry; those are my three winning cards; by means of them I shall be able to double my capitalincrease it sevenfold, and procure for myself ease and independence.