Abased before realities; lost to the meaning of every excellence of his life-training; shattered by psychic revolts; his brain reflecting the strange mirages and singing the vague nothings of starvationbut enumeration only dulls the picture!

Miss Sallianna had a large and useful assortment of feminine weapons of this description, and was proficient in the use of allfrom the embarrassed, simpering laugh and maiden blush, with down-cast eyes, raised suddenly, at times, toward the "beloved object," then abased againto the more artistic and effective weapons of female influence, tears, sobs, convulsions, hysterics and the rest.

For those who do exalt themselves, Shall feel humility; But those who are abased on earth, Shall high exalted be.

Plume and helmet were abased to the dust, shields were cloven, the hauberk rent asunder, ash staves knapped like reeds, girths were broken, saddles voided, and strong men thrown, and brave men wounded to the death.

My obligations to God are twelve months deeper, and myself a bankruptdependant upon the bounty of providence, and abased under a sense of my ingratitude, nevertheless my purpose is to live for God alone: my faith strengthens, and I have a little love 'Tis but a drop, O might it grow.

I am now enter the last hour of 1835, much abased on the review of my own unfaithfulness, yes earnestly desiring to commence anew, if permitted a little longer to sojourn on earth.