Words cannot be found severe enough to censure the conduct of those Christians who, pursuing with their indignation the slavery of the South, refuse to fulfil the simplest duties of kindness, or even of common equity, towards the free negroes of the North.

The slaves can be intrusted with none but the simplest implements: every one knows that the plough, introduced originally into our French colonies, disappeared to make room for the hoe as soon as Colbert had authorized the slave trade.

The simplest was to take the key from under the pillow.

The author believes that the simplest botanical study should afford the means of identifying plants, as a large part of the student's pleasure in the science will be the recognition of the things about him.

The arrangement of leaves is usually classed under three modes: the alternate, the opposite, and the whorled; but the opposite is the simplest form of the whorled arrangement, the leaves being in circles of two.

The one is an affair of the intellect, and that, too, of the purest and simplest kind.

I selected moving pictures as the simplest means.

Even the simplest primary lessons of it, the A B C's of it, continue to impress me as being stupid, but none the less unplumbable mysteries.

We are told that he lived in a cottage of the simplest and even meanest description: it neither needed nor possessed a fastening of any kind, for within it there was no furniture except a lamp and the poor straw pallet on which he slept.

There is quite a host of choice and beautiful flowering species, which, though at present not generally known are yet perfectly hardy, of the simplest culture, and equally well adapted for the ornamentation of our Public and Private Parks and Gardens.

The fascination which every one finds in the simplest narrative of daring is the sufficient testimony to its priceless and permanent worth.

He then desired him to gird his companion with one of the simplest and completest rushes he would see by the water's side, and to wash the stain of the lower world out of his face, and so take their journey up the mountain before them, by a path which the rising sun would disclose.

I saw the Nerlis and the Vecchios contented with the simplest doublets, and their good dames hard at work at their spindles.

That is the simplest explanation of the mystery.

It was the simplest thing in the world to save all three of them.

By a natural principle of compensation, the simplest obstacle was to bring us to grief.

They were incredibly ignorant about the simplest matters.

"Sir Hargrave, you may expect nothing from me but the simplest truth.

Simplest thing in the world.

TokensHermia had realized itsymbols of her greatest happiness and his, with life reduced to the simplest elements, in which there had been no place for the extravagant commonplaces of the other life which they both had lived and endured.

I have always found the greatest men the simplest and most frank.

Some of his quietest, simplest phrases have a wonderful evocative power: "the long reign of these quiet Antonines," for example; "the thunder which had sounded all day among the hills"; "far into the night, when heavy rain-drops had driven the last lingerers home"; "Flavian was no more.

He knew that, dress as quietly as she wouldand Sally's dressing for the street meant always the plainest and simplest of attirethere was that about her which invariably attracted attention.

Indeed, it was dangerous to make the simplest observation, for the other three guns were trained upon the inoffensive speaker with such promptness and such an evident desire to fight that for the most part we maintained a dignified but safe silence.

* V.NOTES OF INVITATION, &C. Notes of invitation and acceptance are written in the third person and the simplest style.