Nor is the sustenance and nutrition of the animal kingdom the only function these minute productions may perform; they may also be the purifiers of the vitiated atmosphere, and thus execute in the Antarctic latitudes the office of our trees and grass turf in the temperate regions, and the broad leaves of the palm, &c., in the tropics."

I mean not merely such a resemblance of his form as Art may execute with materials almost as perishable as the image of human clay, but such an impression of his soul as may have a more lasting influence on the life and conduct of his admirers, such as, diffusing among them a portion of his spirit, may in some measure perpetuate his existence.

He was executed at noon, a copy of the Tribune being tied to his feet, to add force to his fall and curtail his sufferings.

In Henry the Eighth's reign, Harrison asserts that 73,000 criminals were executed for theft and robbery, which was nearly 2,000 a year.

In 1752, it was enacted that every criminal convicted of wilful murder should be executed on the day next but one after sentence was passed, unless that happens to be on a Sunday: and in that case, they are to be executed on the Monday following.

The disorders of civil war had accustomed the nation to see justice sometimes executed without the due formalities; and his neglect of those formalities had not hitherto made him unpopular.

If we interfere with it we shall be executed as rebels, supposing that we are not first torn to pieces as rioters.

Had the work, however, been executed under the same auspices, it would probably, as Sir Walter Scott has suggested, "have been occupied by that personal satire, upon obscure and unworthy contemporaries, to which Pope was but too much addicted.

I have thought of a planoh, a most excellent planwhich I will myself execute to-morrow, and then shall all your troubles be finished, and you will be happy again.

The rifle salute may also be executed from the order or trail.

"Desperate diseases require desperate remedies: if laws are rigidly executed against murderers in the highway, those who provide a draught of gin, which we see is murderous, ought not to be countenanced.

The statue "The Christ on the Cross," that had been ordered by Antonio Matelli, and which is now in the Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, was, it is probable, executed during Michelangelo's rare visits to Rome under Leo's pontificate.

On Wednesday, June 23, I visited him in the morning, after having been present at the shocking sight of fifteen men executed before Newgate[1015].

The Political Economy was far more rapidly executed than the Logic, or indeed than anything of importance which I had previously written.

It was executed about 1710, by Antoine Michel Padeloup, Royal Binder of both France and Portugal.

We must be able to have a voice in the election not only of every law-maker, but of every one who has to do either with the making or the executing of the laws.

From the notices of Hogarth's portraits we select the following: "Hogarth's Portrait of Henry Fielding, executed after death from recollection, is remarkable as being the only likeness extant of the prince of English novelists.

In the Rue Blanche a rifle-shot proceeded from a ground-floor; the man was taken and executed outside his own door.

One of the boy's pet diversions was to execute behind the old lady's back a war-dance of the Cannibal Islanders he had seen once at a theatre.

" Charlie ran upstairs, and selecting the best-executed of his drawings, put them in a neat portfolio, and, without saying anything to Esther or his mother, hastened away to Mr. Blatchford's.

For the man to whom this clemency was graciously extended had been condemned and executed between the columns of San Marco and San Teodoro, ten years beforestanding accused of conspiracy against the State.

Lictor, proclaim this in the market-place, And see it executed out of hand.

LOAD (from magazine) is executed by drawing back and thrusting home the bolt with the right hand, leaving the safety lock at the "ready.

Popular will cannot get itself executed through an irresponsible executive, for that is simple autocracy.

He therefore rebuked them and ordered a decree to be issued to the effect that no person condemned by them be executed within ten days, nor the document applying to his case be made public before the same time.