There was a curious collection of people in the tribunes.

It was purchased from a well-known collection in Italy, where there are none others of the school.

You would take up collections for the benevolences, but if you told us what they meant, we didn't pay enough attention to get the idea clearly, so as to have any real understanding.

The people gathered together and became a collection at the first church; after certain prayers had been said they went in procession to the station church.

So they sought a purchaser for the Mazarin; they found one in the empress of Russia, who had a craze for precious stones, and who, at her death, left this remarkable collection to her favourite son, who had inherited her passion.

Then I found it would be well for me, if I did not wish to be arrested as a thief who had robbed a museum, to endeavor to sell my collection as a whole in some other country.

Carpini, or rather Vincentius, has sadly confounded all authentic history, by his rambling colloquial collections from ignorant relators, and has miserably corrupted the orthography of names of nations, places, and persons.

I have been able to supplement the materials in my own collection by numerous facsimiles taken direct from a priceless store of Dickens-MSS.

Mr. Jobson, fingering his bristly chin, stood: regarding the collection with a wan smile.

The collection on one occasion amounted to twenty thousand francs,equal, perhaps, to ten thousand dollars to-day.

No: but it suffices here, that men have put together such a collection into one complex idea, that makes the archetype and specific idea; whether ever any such action were committed in rerum natura or no.

Well, a collection like this demands days and days of patient examination, and one has only a few hours.

If aught be omitted, or added, which he likes, or dislikes, thou art mancipium paucae lectionis, an idiot, an ass, nullus es, or plagiarius, a trifler, a trivant, thou art an idle fellow; or else it is a thing of mere industry, a collection without wit or invention, a very toy.

I have availed myself of the notices relating to Physical Geography and Geology, which are dispersed through the published accounts of Captain Flinders',** and Baudin's Voyages;*** and these, with the collections above alluded to, form, I believe, the only sources of information at present existing in Europe, respecting the geological structure and productions of the north and western coasts of Australia.

Dr. Emily Blackwell, who was at that time studying in England, requesting her to make collections among their friends in that country; which she did with success.

"The increase in the number of subjects in the collection during the last year has been considerable, and many of the additions have been of the utmost importance to science.

Many a good egg have I had for my collection out of the Corriemuir Peel Tower.

The author of 'Supernatural Religion' is therefore not without reason when he says that they may be derived from other collections than our actual Gospels.

He brings a worse accusation against Gerard, if I understand him rightly to charge him with using Dr. Priest's manuscript collections after his death, without giving that physician the credit of his labours.

With a manly resolution, which gave promise of the rare excellence he was progressively to attain, he had at this time amputated altogether from the collection about one-half of the contents of his earliest work, with some considerable portion of the second; he had almost rewritten or carefully corrected other important pieces, and had added a volume of new compositions.

Moreover, a comparison extending over the whole field of sermonic literature, such as the preacher may make with this collection before him, should prove most valuable as showing what progress and changes have come over homiletic matter and methods.

"You think you know this collection inside out," said Challoner, as if reading my thoughts.

"How do you manage all these nice things?" The captain's eyes surveyed the motley collection down the length of the bright table, then returned to her, gratefully: "This ain't anything.