From the parlors where Chief-Justice CHASE and General LEE were hob-nobbing over apple-toddies and "peach-and-honey," to the cabins where the wards of the nation were luxuriating in picturesque ease beneath the shade of their newly-fledged angel of liberty, everything was instructive to the well-balanced mind.

I am going to Mrs. Cowley's new play, which I suppose is as instructive as the Marriage of Figaro, for I am told it approaches to those of Mrs. Behn in spartan delicacy; but I shall see Miss Farren, who, in my poor opinion, is the first of all actresses.'

The maxims of a subtle policy are instructive in despotism of every description.

They are, especially for non-combatants, the most instructive of all the fruits of war, much more instructive than dead bodies or men without limbs.

They are, especially for non-combatants, the most instructive of all the fruits of war, much more instructive than dead bodies or men without limbs.

Thus while the great artist retained the antique, he superadded a loftiness such as the ancients rarely produced; and sculpture became in his hands, not demoralizing and Pagan, resplendent in sensual charms, but instructive and exalting,instructive for the marvellous display of anatomical knowledge, and exalting from grand conceptions of dignity and power.

Always instructive without being exactly instructed, always argumentative without being very guarded in argument, he yet displays a marvellously contagious enthusiasm for his own creeds, and surrounds his own ideals with an atmosphere of passionate nobility.

Finally, my point could scarcely be better illustrated than by a comparisoncruel but instructive between Rebecca in Rosmersholm and the heroine in Bella Donna.

The Greek Amphilochus devoted a whole book to it, as have the English Walter Harte in the middle of the eighteenth century and the American Coburn at the beginning of the twentieth century, but none of them is more instructive on the subject of its culture than is Columella in a few paragraphs.

The conversation became more instructive under the guidance of Burke.