Having executed a statue in Spain for a grandee, he was very much outraged by receiving only thirty scudi as his reward, and accordingly smashed the statue to pieces with a sledge-hammer.

Having executed a statue in Spain for a grandee, he was very much outraged by receiving only thirty scudi as his reward, and accordingly smashed the statue to pieces with a sledge-hammer.

A stupendously sculptured male figure, in a reclining attitude, and exhibiting, I suppose, as much learning in his torso as does the famous figure in the Elgin marbles, strikes one as the most triumphant statue of modern times.

Then Octavius took courage and set up in the temple of Venus a bronze statue of him with a star above his head.

The seaman holding the blazing torch aloft, and thrusting it forth across the rail, took on the appearance of a black statue, as motionless as though carved from ebony, while in the gleam the various groups of men became visible, lined up along the port bulwarks, all staring in the one direction, eagerly seeking a first glimpse of the approaching craft.

THE MODEL AND THE STATUE.

THE MODEL AND THE STATUE.

The thought is that, as the sculptor carves a statue from a rough model by addition and subtraction of the marble, so the lady of his heart refines and perfects his rude native character.

M.A. was then working at the bronze statue of Julius II.

" Not a word said Hoffman, but looked on the ground, as motionless and expressionless as a statue.

But whatever the original design of this statue to Reynard, the old fox read me a solemn lesson, and seemed to be always saying, "Take care, Harry; be on your guard.

The hill above, known as "Mont Bédat," and surmounted with a statue of the Virgin, is a favourite walk from the town, the ascent for a moderate walker taking about forty-five minutes.

Passing under an archway on the right side of the road, we entered a court-yard, in which stands a marble statue erected in honour of the late curé, and on the right of this is the entrance into the church.

The sun was just sinking over the Jersey shore beyond the Statue of Liberty and the surface of the harbor undulated like iridescent watered silk.

He turned a miserable face toward her; she, eyes dilated, frozen to a statue, saw him advance, hold out a white wandsaw the uncanny procession of mice mount the stick and form into a row, tails hanging downsaw him carry the creatures to a box and dump them in.

Mr. M'Queen insisted that the ruin of a small building, standing east and west, was actually the temple of the Goddess ANAITIS, where her statue was kept, and from whence processions were made to wash it in one of the brooks.

Dr. Johnson, with his usual acuteness, examined Mr. M'Queen as to the meaning of the word Ainnit, in Erse; and it proved to be a water-place, or a place near water, 'which,' said Mr. M'Queen, 'agrees with all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess, which were situated near rivers, that there might be water to wash the statue.'

All the glories of this order of architecture culminated in the Parthenon,built of Pentelic marble, resting on a basement of limestone, surrounded with forty-eight fluted columns of six feet and two inches diameter at the base and thirty-four feet in height, the frieze and pediment elaborately ornamented with reliefs and statues, while within the cella or interior was the statue of Minerva, forty feet high, built of gold and ivory.

If he gains one, will some ticket, When his statue's built, Tell the gazer "'Twas a cricket Helped my crippled lyre, whose lilt Sweet and low,

The stars of midnight sifted Above her sands of gold; She seemed a slumbering statue, So fair and white and cold.

He carried me off and conducted me to the temple of Oromazes, where the mage his brother shut me up in that huge statue whose base reaches to the foundation of the temple and whose top rises to the summit of the dome.

I saw him implore the gods in behalf of Missouf, at the feet of the statue in which I was inclosed.

I was taken from the heart of my statue and placed at the head of a party.

Ure, iii. Uther, ii. Velntide, Saint, iv. Vanitie, i. Venus, ii; iii; v. temple and statue of, iii. Verdant, ii. Verlame, v. Vespasian, ii. Vigent, ii.

" [Illustration: MARLOWE'S MEMORIAL STATUE AT CANTERBURY.] Works.

The which, I say, is grounded on the statute I spake of before, enacted in the reign of Henry VI. AMORETTO.

Master Recorder, is it not a shame that a gallant cannot walk the street quietly for needy fellows, and that, after there is a statute come out against begging?

In the 'Encyclopædia Metropolitana' (1845), we find: 'Impressing, or, more correctly, impresting, i.e. paying earnest-money to seamen by the King's Commission to the Admiralty, is a right of very ancient date, and established by prescription, though not by statute.

The law of the land relating to this subject was that all 'sea-faring' men were liable to impressment unless specially protected by custom or statute.

Stringent laws are on the statute books of all states against stealing automobiles, yet stealing and selling automobiles is a flourishing and growing business.

"Some persons," writes a gossiping chronicler of the time, "thought that these meetings were liable to the statute, De conventiculis illicitis reprimendis."

The attempt was twice made to rescind the vote: first, after the outcry about the Ninetieth Tract and the contest about the Poetry Professorship, by a simple repeal, which was rejected by 334 to 219 (June 1842); and next, indirectly by a statute enlarging the Professor's powers over Divinity degrees, which was also rejected by 341 to 21 (May 1844).

No one could say that the defeat of the altered Statute by 341 to 21 was the work merely of a party.[105] It was the most decisive vote given in the course of these conflicts.

The Statute is thus drawn up in general terms, and prescribes nothing as to the mode in which the examination into the alleged offence is to be carried on; that is, it leaves it to the Vice-Chancellor's discretion.

The sermon was asked for, but the name of the accuser was not given; the Statute did not enjoin it.

The Six Doctors were appointed, five of them being Dr. Hawkins, Dr. Symons, Dr. Jenkyns, Dr. Ogilvie, Dr. Jelf; the Statute said the Regius Professor was, if possible, to be one of the number; as he was under the ban of a special Statute, he was spared the task, and his place was taken by the next Divinity Professor, Dr. Faussett, the person who had preferred the charge, and who was thus, from having been accuser, promoted to be a judge.

The Six Doctors were appointed, five of them being Dr. Hawkins, Dr. Symons, Dr. Jenkyns, Dr. Ogilvie, Dr. Jelf; the Statute said the Regius Professor was, if possible, to be one of the number; as he was under the ban of a special Statute, he was spared the task, and his place was taken by the next Divinity Professor, Dr. Faussett, the person who had preferred the charge, and who was thus, from having been accuser, promoted to be a judge.

To Dr. Pusey's request for a hearing, no answer was returned; the Statute, no doubt, said nothing of a hearing.

All this, all the intrinsic injustice, all the scandal and discredit in the eyes of honest men, was forgotten in the obstinate and blind confidence in the letter of a vague Statute.

The Statute, it was said, enjoined none of these things.

The Statute, it was said, neither enjoined nor implied publicity.

This was the amiable purpose of the pompously-named "Statute of Kilkenny", passed by about a score of these colonists in 1367.

Presuming to speak in the name of Ireland, the statute prohibited the English colonists from becoming Irish in the numerous ways they were accustomed to do, and excluded all Irish priests from preferment in the Church, partly because their superior virtue would by contrast amount to a censure.

Outside that precinct, the mass of the Irish were wholly unconscious of the existence of the "Statute of Kilkenny."

But expressing, as the statute did correctly, the views of fresh adventurers, it became, in arrogance and in the pretension to speak for the whole of Ireland, a model for their future legislation and policy.

But the operations of this statute were wholly nullified by the captains of the vessels landing their passengers at Newcastle, Del., and Burlington, N, J., and, as one instance of this, I find in the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury of August 14, 1729, a statement to this effect: "It is reported from Newcastle that there arrived there this last week about 2000 Irish and an abundance more daily expected."

In complying with the statute above quoted, some Irish families accepted the rather doubtful privilege of translating their names into their English equivalents.

By four o'clock, Mr. Ferret, who could fortunately sleep as well in a postchaise as in a feather-bed, was, as he had promised himself, on his road to Lancashire once more, where he had the pleasure of serving Major Brandon personally; at the same time tendering in due form the one shilling per mile fixed by the statute as preliminary traveling charges.

"The statute of mortmain does not give me much uneasiness," remarked the vindictive old man with a bitter smile.

" "Nor from the statute-books of Queen Anne.