Whosoever sleeps there of a night shall be crowded by walls which rub off into a faint feather-bed of the flavor and consistency of geese used whole, and have for his feverish breakfast in the morning a version of broiled ham as racy of attic-salt as the rasher of BACON'S essays.

Man is, in general, made up of contradictory qualities; and these will ever shew themselves in strange succession, where a consistency in appearance at least, if not in reality, has not been attained by long habits of philosophical discipline.

In true consistency with the memorable season at Epworth, and her own institution of the Church in the Home, Mrs. Wesley was privileged to give her testimony in favour of lay-preaching.

In Russia it is extensively made, as good, though of less consistency than the treacle obtained from cane-sugar.

To whom could they turn, in preference to him who had given consistency to the early explosion of their despair; to him who first gave the country political existence, then nursed it into freedom, and now beheld it in the vigor and prime of independence?

Her goodness goes as far as good temper, and her principles as far as shrewd sense, and we may thank her consistency for showing us what they are both worth.

In the discussion of the application to emergencies, in practical life, of the eternal principle which he points out at the beginning, Dr. Hodge is as far from consistency as in his treatment of Bible narratives.

How narrowly we escaped demoralizing ourselves, at the last moment before Congress adjourned, by some concession which would have destroyed our consistency without strengthening our position!

A consistency between belief and behaviour becomes the only way to make our designs on reality real.

" All the other main ideas of his poetry fit with perfect consistency on to his scheme.

Such definite purpose as underlies the tricks and grimaces of its author is by degrees accomplished; and before we reach the end of the first volume the highly humorous, if extravagantly idealized, figure of Mr. Shandy takes bodily shape and consistency before our eyes.

We think how the man who reorganized the Empire of Rome was also the man who first put harmony and consistency into the architecture of Rome.

Shall we take lessons in fixedness of principle from the Whig-Antislavery Member from Federalist Essex?in stable convictions from the Tyler-Commissioner to China?in consistency from the Democratic Attorney-General?in an amalgam of all three from the Coalition Judge?

These conversations, at first merely friendly, have acquired consistency by the sanction I have given to them by my letter of the 11th Fructidor.

They still kept the Castilian tongue as the language of the hearth like an original flag whose waving reunited their scattered souls,a Castilian in the making, soft and without consistency like one newly-born.