It is amusing to see how Cicero himself now and again catches the infection, and tries (in vain) to write in the same frivolous manner.

They want the pure light of heaven to shine into that dark and gloomy cave; they want all men to see how that dead body has been bound, how that face has been wrapped in the napkin of prejudice; and shall they wait beside that grave in vain?

Did He come to proclaim liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that are bound, in vain?

In vain will such men try to wash their hands, and say, with the Roman governor, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person."

There are, doubtless, many persons in the South, who believe, that all attempts to suppress it, are vain, as well as wicked.

Whoever heard, until these strange times on which we have fallen, of any thing, which, to use the Professor's language about slavery, "it is in vain, to contend is sin, and yet profess reverence for the Scriptures," being at war with and destroyed by the principles of the gospel.

But this he was not; and, therefore, your quotation is vain.

And the fact, that from the time of Noah's intoxication, until the organization of the American Temperance Society, the desolating tide of intemperance had been continually swelling, proves that this reliance on unapplied principles, however soundthis "faith without works"is utterly vain.

What I have previously said, however, shows that it would, probably, have been in vain, and worse than in vain, for him to have come out, on any occasion whatever, with an exposition of the evils of slavery.

What I have previously said, however, shows that it would, probably, have been in vain, and worse than in vain, for him to have come out, on any occasion whatever, with an exposition of the evils of slavery.

It was in vain that Frank Buxton made the pony trot and canter; she still looked sad and grave.

She hesitatedI was almost a stranger,and in a vain effort to do better, trod on the sheet, and pulled it to her feet.

A month after an occurrence one might search in vain for the actuality.

We shouted in vain for the Frenchman, so we searched the premises.

And what, if he does not look up in vain, nor sigh in vain?

When we once find out what He is to an aching, empty heart, we want to make everybody see just what we see, and, until we try in vain, think we can.

When I got home there was no papa and no letter to be found; I looked in every room, on his desk and on mine, posted down to the letter-box and into the parlor, in vain.

of, with adjectives, (in vain, in secret, &c.) sometimes appar.

Old women, with shaking heads and trembling hands, raised shrill voices in the vain hope that they might hear an answering call from sons or daughters.

I do not reflect now that it was my fault, that all might have been so different, and that I had only to stretch out my hand to secure the happiness I am now yearning for in vain.

This would be all in vain if she loved her husband; it would make her hate me.

I am neither so vain, foolish, nor mean that every conquest of that kind should rejoice me; therefore felt annoyed at the thought that Clara might love me, and nourish some baseless hopes.

And this is so because in all that instinct suggests, it is the Supreme Artist himself who disposes of us and acts in us, while whatever is suggested by a reason insufficiently inspired by the contemplation of the divine handiwork is fatally incoherent, for we thus pretend to substitute ourselves for God, and God thenceforth leaving us to ourselves, surrenders us to all the discordant effects of an inconsequential and vain conception.

In short, I had learned how vain is advice dictated by the caprice of a master without a system!

He returned home in silent consternation, seeking in vain for a satisfactory explanation of the mystery.

O Ferraù, o mille altri ch'io non scrivo, Ch'avete fatto mille pruove vane Per questa ingrata, quanto aspro vi fora S'a costu' in braccio voi la vedesse ora!

After the king's death they derived much valuable aid from the talents of Vane, Whitelock, and St. John; and a feeble lustre was shed on their cause by the accession of the five peers [Footnote 1: Journals, Feb. 8.

[Footnote 2: Immediately after Pride's purge, Vane, disgusted at the intolerance of his own party, left London, and retired to Raby Castle; he was now induced to rejoin them, and resumed his seat on Feb. 26.] from the abolished House of Lords.

CHANTECLER Thou smilest on the sunflower craning after thee, And burnishest my brother of the vane, And softly sifting through the linden-trees Strewest the ground with dappled gold, So fine there's no more walking where it lies.

The names of Lydiat, Vane, and Sedley, which are brought forward in the poem on the Vanity of Human Wishes, as examples of inefficiency of either learning or beauty, to shield their possessors from distress, have exercised inquiry.

The VANE, who told, "what ills from beauty spring," was not Lady Vane, the subject of Smollett's memoirs, in Peregrine Pickle, but, according to Mr. Malone, she was Anne Vane, mistress to Frederick prince of Wales, and died in 1736, not long before Johnson settled in London.

The VANE, who told, "what ills from beauty spring," was not Lady Vane, the subject of Smollett's memoirs, in Peregrine Pickle, but, according to Mr. Malone, she was Anne Vane, mistress to Frederick prince of Wales, and died in 1736, not long before Johnson settled in London.

The VANE, who told, "what ills from beauty spring," was not Lady Vane, the subject of Smollett's memoirs, in Peregrine Pickle, but, according to Mr. Malone, she was Anne Vane, mistress to Frederick prince of Wales, and died in 1736, not long before Johnson settled in London.

In Mr. Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, we find lord Hailes objecting to the instances of unfortunate beauties selected by Johnson, and suggesting, in place of Vane and Sedley, the names of Shore and Valière.

[ee]The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'd a king.

The horizontal wind vane on the roof of this building is to assist the prisoners when there is not a sufficiency of them sentenced to the tread-wheels; by shutting the louvre boards of the arms it then produces employment for the prisoners when there is no corn in the mill to grind.

The clock at the Town Hall is said to be from a "scrapped" city church and the gilt vane on the turret of Purbeck House on the other side of the way is from Billingsgate.

Helen Deutsch (A); 27Mar67; R406629. DE VANE, MABEL PHILLIPS.

DE VANE, MILTON P. Selections from Tennyson.

DE VANE, WILLIAM CLYDE. Selections from Tennyson.

By the way, a natural weathercock instead of the gilded vane, as defined by Brown, would have been a rara avis: "A kingfisher hanged by the bill, converting the breast to that point of the horizon whence the wind doth blow, is a very strange introducing of natural weathercocks.

The entire height of the cross, from the lowest base to the top of the vane, is thirty-eight feet.

"What think you of this, Captain Rule?" asked the other, pointing up at a little vane that began to flutter at the head of one of his masts.

He observes, that the opinion of some, that the "Claik geis growis on treis be the nebbis, is vane," and says he "maid na lytyll lauboure and deligence to serche the treuthe and virite yairof," having "salit throw the seis quhare thir Clakis ar bred," and assures us, that although they were produced in "mony syndry wayis, thay ar bred ay allanerly be nature of the seis."

Now and then a rush of wind rattled over the graves, roared through the leafless trees, bent the complaining bushes, and caught itself in the little eddy at the corner of the church, only to escape again over the roofs, turning the old weather vane with a sharp scream of the rusty iron.

It seemed to me as if I were out in the graveyard again, and heard the screaming of the rusty weather vane as the wind turned it.

A third icy gust blew the last leaves from the bushes, white crosses and gravestones appeared between the bare twigsand I was in the churchyard again and heard the screaming of the rusty weather vane.

; in "New Men and Old Acres," 124, 146, 152; and the Bancrofts, 131; as Mabel Vane, 131; as Blanche Hayes in "Ours," 132; goes to see Irving act, 133, 134, 137; and Irving's Hamlet, 136 et sqq.

He begged his life from the prince, who granted it only on condition that he should fire the figure nine with his rifle through the vane of this tower.

He agreed, and did it; and at the present time one can distinguish a rude nine on the vane, as if cut with bullets, while two or three marks at the side appear to be from shots that failed.