Much so-called "busy work," where pupils of the "A class" are allowed to stick a thousand pegs in a thousand holes while the "B class" is reciting arithmetic, is quite fruitless, because it has so little thought behind it.

Unless some other courageous man had arisen to tear the veil away from before human life, such as it is in so-called civilised communities, and show society its own self in all its rottenness, foulness, and hypocrisyso that on more than one occasion, shrinking guiltily from its own image, it has denounced the plain unvarnished truth as libelthere would have been no 'Nana' and no 'Pot Bouille,' no 'Assommoir,' and no 'Germinal.'

But the European powers have long ago substituted for the rule of justice the so-called balancing systemthat is to say, the political balance of power among nations.

A so-called empty vessel is one where the contents are invisible.

, isthat the so-called Apostles' Creed was at first the preparatory confession of the catechumens, the admission-ticket, as it were ('symbolum ad Baptismum'), at the gate of the Church, and gradually augmented as heresies started up.

In England, the so-called viscous theory of Professor J.D. Forbes held for a long while undisputed possession of the field.

The southern white man, eternally dreading the miscegenation of the races, makes the life, liberty and happiness of individuals second to measures considered necessary to prevent this so-called evil that this enviable civilization, distinctly American, may not be destroyed.

Political rights so-called do not exist; government is simply a system of appliances for the maintenance of private rights.

The observant man is, in reality, the attentive man, and the so-called power of observation is simply the capacity for continuous attention.

The civil war which ours most resembles is that which was waged in England a little more than two centuries ago, and which is known in English history as "The Great Civil War," though in fact it was but a small affair, if we compare it with that which took place nearly two centuries earlier than Cromwell's time,the so-called Wars of the Roses.

There is no such thing as charity about a so-called state charity.

Personally, however, I do not mind making the admission, however damaging it may be, that there are certain forms of so-called humour, or, at least, fun, which I am quite unable to appreciate.

It is refreshing to turn from the epigoni of the so-called Roman school to masters in whom the flame of the Renaissance still burned brightly.

Llangollen Bridge, across which runs the chief thoroughfare, is one of the so-called "wonders of Wales."

This brings us to the so-called Balkan Alliance about which much has been written and many errors ignorantly propagated.

The pankration, again, was a mode of battle which the modern prize-ring is yet too magnanimous to adopt, and which excelled in brutality the so-called "getting one's nob in chancery,"the most stirring episode of our pugilistic encounters.

It would doubtless amaze the scientifically orthodox to know how many people habitually and successfully practice the dubious art of automatic writingnot mediums, so-called, but people of refinement and intelligence.

" Fête Chenchine, so-called, has no rival in impressionistic effects.

Those phrases of the so-called formalist may each mean five or six different things.

No matter what one may think of the so-called criminal and his responsibility, or quite regardless of whether we feel pity or hatred, the great mass of the community will not suffer one who has little self-control to interfere seriously and directly with the peace and happiness of the community in which he lives.

It does not account either for the allegorical pastoral, in which actual personages are introduced, in the guise of shepherds, to discuss contemporary affairs, or for the so-called realistic pastoral, in which the town looks on with amused envy at the rustic freedom of the country.

Under liberal notions, prevailing until recently in all our States, certainly in all where the so-called common-law marriage prevails, it is extremely easy for a woman to prove herself the lawful wife of any man she could prove herself to have known, and sometimes even without proving the acquaintance.

This so-called city contained but one residence, a tent occupied by the ferryman.

In Puerto Rico this measure remained without effect owing to the arbitrary and reactionist character of the governor who was appointed to succeed Don Julian Pavia, during whose just and prudent administration the so-called Insurrection of Lares happened.

In the general development of the so-called automatic telegraph devices which have been or now are in practical operation, two lines have been pursued.