We need not stop to examine how far the praises which he bestows on Lord Chatham's talents as a planner of military operations are deserved; but it may very fairly be contended that the disparaging views of Pitt's military policy which he has advanced are founded solely on what is in this as well as in many other instances a most delusive criterion, success.

It was resisted as vehemently as any former measure with the same object, and partly on the new ground that it would in no degree stop the trade or diminish the sufferings of the Africans, but would merely rob our ship-owners of their profits to enrich the Americans.

And here I quit the land of "The Bond and the Free." "Nineveh, Babylon, and ancient Rome Speak to the present times, and times to come: They cry aloud in every careless ear, 'Stop, while you may; suspend your mad career;

if you don't know what I mean I can't stop to explainwith masses of yellow hair, such blue eyes and pink cheeks and white teeth that I am convinced I am sharing a cabin with the original Hans Andersen's Snow Queen.

When I begin to speak about Peter I can't stop, and forget how tiresome it must be for people to listen.

When a fellow's women-kind take to going to races and regattas it is high time for him to stop away.' 'Have you seen Lesbia lately?' asked his grandmother.

'Your house is charming, and I shall be here only too often in the days to come; you will have more than enough of me then, I promise you,' replied Georgie, with her girlish laugh, 'but we must not stop a day longer now.

He asked us to stop and take coffee, and received us with much grace and dignity.

It was plain that she was doomed if he did not help her, but even if he were to stop and take her into the sledge, it was by no means certain that she would be safe.

A Stop for the Night.

"The first stop will be Palenville," announced Roy, "the biplane will be the pathfinder.

It was agreed to stop at Meadville, which the map showed was about thirty miles to the southeast, and purchase a dress and other necessities for their new ward.

What'll stop me?" "The law.

A STOP FOR THE NIGHT.

exclaimed Roy, as he brought the auto to a stop.

"I reckon you young folks had better stop skee-daddling round the country this way," he said with heavy conviction; "you'll only get into more trouble.

" "Yes; we'd better be getting along; Millbrook, our next stop, is several miles off," said Peggy, consulting the map.

Charles is afraid it will not stop.

I wish the train would stop here.

They were about to jump up at once, but the man signed to them to stop, and his companion in a minute or two had brought out two rough rugs which were secured with some cords over the wooden saddles.

Mr. Coleridge, in writing an harmonious stanza, would stop to consider whether there was not more grace and beauty in a Pas de trois, and would not proceed till he had resolved this question by a chain of metaphysical reasoning without end.

His conduct was not the limit of the law, nor did treasonable excess begin where prudence or principle taught him to stop short, though this was the oblique inference liable to be drawn from his line of defence.

Of course, there is an uplifting truth in George Herbert's maxim, "This coat with my discretion will be brave," yet, I am inclined to think that the majority of men who will stop to consider will agree with Emerson, who says, "If a man has not firm nerves and has keen sensibility, it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.

In March, 1816, John Randolph introduced a resolution for putting a stop to the domestic slave trade within the District.

We had resolved to go only so far as the vicinity of the lake, where the breeze would render the mosquitoes less intolerable, and then to stop and make one more attempt at drying our clothing.