FOUR O'CLOCK.On receipt of reassuring news from Europe, the market has advanced to DELMONICO'S, where wet goods are quoted from 10 cents upwards.

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What I say shall be quoted as a way of equity and probity.

Between these two extremes you could hear Idaho Bar quoted at any figure you liked.

His quaint sayings and doings were frequently quoted with great relish among this rural population.

And there was the merchant skipper, showing off his goods, and quoting for each a weight of tobacco.

The first step in that downward progress which has led to destitution and pauperism is the withdrawal of the savings of honest industry, and that is represented in the return which I have quoted to you.

Gortschakoff, Prince, quoted on death of Thiers; at Berlin Congress; a diplomatist of the old-fashioned type.

It led to a long and spirited debate, in which Mr. Marcy uttered the memorable maxim: "To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy," which was so often quoted against him.

I now turn from those poems of national scope and wide social interest, bearing their share, doubtless, in the growth of the great changes that showed themselves at length more than a century after, and from the poem I have just quoted of a yet wider human interest, to one of another tone, springing from the grief that attends love, and the aspiration born of the grief.

Scarce an authority is quoted under an ambassador.

Now nothing of these things the maiden noted, But turned her face with half-reproachful look, As doubting whether he the words had quoted Out of some evil, earth-begotten book; Or upward from his spirit's depths had floated Those words like bubbles in a low dead brook;

In the letter quoted above Lamb speaks of his purchaser as "Mr. Grig Junr.," more, I am inclined to think, from his desire to have his little joke than from mere inaccuracy, for he must have known the correct name of his purchaser.

He speaks what often we do not dare to speak; one of his quatrains can be more easily quoted than some of those thoughts can be formulated.

Says Stanley: "The purple vine, the green fig-tree, the gray olive, the scarlet pomegranate, the golden corn, the waving palm, the fragrant citron, vanished before them, and the trunks and branches were left bare and white by their devouring teeth,"a brilliant sentence, by the way, which Geikie quotes without acknowledgment, as well as many others, which lays him open to the charge of plagiarism.

" To show that love of the sea yet remains one of the characteristics of English poetry, we may quote by way of comparison a song sung more than a thousand years later, in Victoria's reign: "The wind is as iron that rings, The foam heads loosen and flee; It swells and welters and swings, The pulse of the tide of the sea.

There are several breeds that are more trimmed than the wire-hair, and that might well be quoted before him in this connection.

They are not read and quoted like Webster's masterpieces.

For the same purpose, they quote below a chronological sketch of the various publications, which appeared in the Gulielmensian of the class of 1908.

I should have noticed also, in the same work, the obligations of Spenser to the Italian poet for the passage before quoted about the nymph in the water.]

If I might be allowed I'd quote unto you the words which a pretty American girl once used when I asked if I might kiss her'Wade right in, Bub!'" "'Fraid I can't 'wade in' till seven o'clockerRoss-Ellison," answered the horribly embarrassed Major Ranald.

I haven't heard much Scripture quoted among them myself, poor fellows; but to tell you the truth, sir, I don't know what I am becoming.

Your sayings and thoughts are quoted throughout the markets of Europeyes, throughout the markets of other continents; your actions and decisions make the difference between the decisions and the actions of men that you have never seen, that you shall never see.