" "So it is; but what has that to do with rent?" "Sir," said I, "our ablest writers on this subject have lately discovered that there can be no rent where there is not a gradation of soils, such as exists in every country of the earth.

You may find about the world you may see even in England aloneevery gradation between coal and growing forest.

There are gradations in conduct; there is morality,decency,propriety.

Between forty and fifty, that span of years which begin the first slight gradations from the apex of life, the gray hair, upstanding like a thick-bristled brush off Mr. Haas's brow, had not so much as whitened, or the slight paunchiness enhanced even the moving-over of a button.

He is the general corrupter of spirits yet untainted, inducing them by gradation to much lascivious depravity.

Hast thou not observed, the charming gradations by which the ensnared volatile has been brought to bear with its new condition?

Each species or sort of chair, as we have said, has its varieties, and one species shades off by gradations into another.

thine the fault, Since first thy infant years instruction drew; From youth's gradations up to manhood taught That faith to reverence which thy fathers knew.

Here it would not be amiss to consider the general principle of gradation throughout organic Nature,a principle which answers in a general way to the law of continuity in the inorganic world, or rather is so analogous to it that both may fairly be expressed by the Leibnitzian axiom, Natura non agit saltatim.

I hope you will think no Part of Human Life out of your Consideration, but will, at your Leisure, give us the History of Plenty and Want, and the natural Gradations towards them, calculated for the Cities of London and Westminster.

As the centurion might rise from the ranks by regular gradation through the different maniples of the Hastati, Principes, and Triarii, there was great inducement held out to the soldiers.

It is by this noble slowness that the highest minds faintly emulate that inconceivable deliberateness and delicacy of gradation with which solar systems are built and worlds habilitated.

If, now, we compare this structural gradation among Polyps with their geological succession, we shall find that they correspond exactly.