"A calm autumnal day in the country is a great thing, a beautiful thing, a thing to thank God for; a thing to make one happy, buoyant of spirit, full of gratitude to the great Creator; a thing to make one merry, too, not with a loud and boisterous mirth, but with a heart full to overflowing with cheerfulness, and a calm joy.

Expressing our gratitude for his kind attentions, and promising to renew our visit if we could, we bade him adieu.

Assist me then, in this, the hour of my tribulation, and you, my dear Mr. PUNCHINELLO, will merit the lasting gratitude of an UNHAPPY FATHER.

It was almost a rejuvenescence, and there was gratitude in the gaze she turned on Rogers.

He their gratitude by loyally serving them.

While the expence and dignity of that monument are yet unsettled, a Writer may consider himself as a friend to national honour, who endeavours to animate his country to the most extensive display of her munificence, and her gratitude towards the purest public virtue.

The news of this act flew like the wind through the Papal States, and caused everywhere a burst of exultation and gratitude toward the new sovereign.

I never expect gratitude from those whom I have befriended.

" Gabrielle flashed a look of gratitude at Crewe.

Our ages are perfectly suitable, our disposition entirely consonant, our habits so similar as to obviate all unpleasant changes, and our fortunes precisely what they ought to be to render a marriage happy, with confidence on one side, and gratitude on the other.

It is not otherwise easy to be understood, why the blessing of foodthe act of eatingshould have had a particular expression of thanksgiving annexed to it, distinct from that implied and silent gratitude with which we are expected to enter upon the enjoyment of the many other various gifts and good things of existence.

Thus, he condemned gratitude as a sentiment calculated to weaken the sense of justice, and to substitute feeling for reason.

Such minds are ever activetheir light, like the vestal lamp, is ever burningand in my opinion the man who refines the common intercourse of life, and wreaths the altars of our household gods with flowers, is more deserving of respect and gratitude than all the sages who waste their lives in elaborate speculations, which tend to nothing, and which we cannot comprehendnor they neither.

He illustrates by Pliny's story of the grateful dragon, and by Appian's story of the grateful lion, how a speaker may enlarge on the duty of gratitude among men.

It is difficult within the ordinary limits of a review in these columns to say all that one feels or even to express adequately one's gratitude after reading the two volumes of Lord MORLEY'S generous and delightful Recollections (MACMILLAN).

The other represented the two kneeling in gratitude before a restored altar, on which was the anchor of Hope.

Stimson, the oldest and the best seaman in the schooner, he who had admonished his young commander on the subject of the gratitude due to the Deity, acted as the master's boat-steerer, having first performed the duty of harpooner.

Should new ties allure thee again, and a new habitation, Enter with gratitude into the joys that fate shall prepare thee; Love those purely who love thee; be grateful to them who show kindness.

When he started out to drive them in his old rickety vehicle to the nearest railroad station, miles distant, he was almost stricken dumb because Beverly, in the fulness of his gratitude over their marvelous escape, thrust a full hundred dollars upon him, with a promise of a like amount later on for looking after the abandoned bombing plane.

I thought the fellow remembered the act for some years; but, in the end, I believe I flogged all the gratitude out of him.

In a moment she partly recovered composure and smiled her gratitude through a little shower of tears.

His devotion there has earned a gratitude throughout this country that it would be mere presumption to try to put into words.

" Madame Delphine's parting smileshe went very shortlywas gratitude beyond speech.

There is no question of gratitude between us.

"Yew've askt a blessin' fer one woman fer many a year; supposin' neow yew ask it fer thirty!" Amid the amazement of the other sisters, Abe mumbled, and muttered, and murmuredno one knew what words; but all understood the overwhelming gratitude behind his incoherency, and all joined heartily in the Amen.