He made a call the other morning at our friend M.'s in Bedford-square; and, finding nobody at home, was ushered into the hall, where, asking for pen and ink, with great exactitude of purpose he enters me his name in the bookwhich ordinarily lies about in such places, to record the failures of the untimely or unfortunate visitorand takes his leave with many ceremonies, and professions of regret.

Still less have we a right to look for such exactitude in the words of an anchoress who, if not wholly uneducated in our sense of the word, yet on her own confession "could no letter," i.e., as we should say, was no scholar, and certainly made no pretence to any skill in technical theology.

Having dared to think, then shall we use the expression "little sins," or doubt the terrible absoluteness of exactitude with which "every idle word which men speak" shall enter upon eternity of reckoning.

It had been done with exactitude at the direction of the tahua, who was staying alone in a hut near by.

They now very often admit of being shelled with equal exactitude from due in front and due in rear, and water is laid on throughout.

It corresponded, moreover, with exquisite exactitude to the halting of the conscience between Christianity and Paganism, and to the blent beauty that the poets loved.

The true mind would be one in which faith and criticism were so tempered as to secure width without slovenliness, and exactitude without narrowness.

The enemy was making a target of the Hôtel de Ville, and dropping their shells with dreadful exactitude on either side of it.

What went on at Rome must have been repeated over again with more or less exactitude throughout Italy, and there, in addition to this process of national disintegration, the clouds of a political storm were gathering.

The author of Amasia was no poet, but he possessed the faculty of writing with exactitude about himself.