I know that he who spares the rod spoils the child, ungrateful boy!" says Madame Esmond, with more references of the same nature, which George heard, looking very pale and desperate.

A SINGULAR QUALITY IN THE TENCH.It is said that the tench is possessed of such healing properties among the finny tribes, that even the voracious pike spares it on this account.

The pike, fell tyrant of the liquid plain, With ravenous waste devours his fellow train; Yet howsoe'er with raging famine pined, The tench he spares, a medicinal kind; For when by wounds distress'd, or sore disease, He courts the salutary fish for ease; Close to his scales the kind physician glides, And sweats a healing balsam from his sides.

Your servant, my dear, bowing, were his words; and turning to them, you will observe upon numberless occasions, ladies, as we are further acquainted, that my beloved never spares me upon these topics.

Having led, in their own country, a life of indolence and ease, where the earth brings forth spontaneously the comforts of life, and spares frequently the toil and trouble of cultivation, they can hardly be expected to endure the drudgeries of servitude.

He feels poverty before he sees it, never complains till he be pinched with wants; never spares till the bottom, when it is too late either to spend or recover.

Borrow spares none of them.

Therein he resembles my friend and everybody's friendPunchwho, amidst all his adventures, never spares the black one.

He spares no pains, night and day, to make himself useful to the venerable sufferer.

Yonder he drivesavoid that furious beast: If he may have his jest, he never cares At whose expense; nor friend nor patron spares.

Her love being changed to hate, she engages Rollo to slay Pizarro in his tent; but the noble Peruvian spares his enemy, and makes him a friend.

So let them live, renounced by their own sons, And taste the amnesty that spares and shuns.

Till at the last his time for fury found, He shoots with sudden vengeance from the ground; The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares, But with a lordly rage his hunters tears.

He spares nothing precious when He has a work to do.

What evil cannot corrupt, Fate seldom spares.

"Who spares the aggressor's life even to the endangering his own."Ib., p. 227.

'You will leave me here,' she continued, 'mistress of your house; and if God spares me, here you will find me.

And I will spare them, As a man spares his son who serves him.

Then this would be my consolation, I would exult in pain that spares not.

Mercy, that took him, spares me with the same gracious design; 'not willing that any should perish, but that all might have everlasting life.'

" I thank Thee for the comfort given, When agonized with pain; The love infusedthe taste of heaven, That cheered my heart again; In answer to the faithful prayers Of many a fervent soul, Disease retiredfor mercy spares, And makes the sinner whole.

He is the standard bearer of the scientific revolt in the terms of fiction which spares us no hope of relief in the religious notion of human life here or hereafter that the Hebraic or Christian theology has divined.

For mean remorse no room the valiant find, Repentance is the virtue of weak minds; For want of judgment keeps them doubtful still, They may repent of good, who can of ill; But daring courage makes ill actions good, 'Tis foolish pity spares a rival's blood; You shall about it strait.

"If the war spares Mr. Butler and myself, then I shall call on you.

The time spares both races from the evils of sudden derangement in fact, from the necessity of any derangementwhile most of those whose habitual course of thought will be disturbed by the measure will have passed away before its consummation.