A new spiritual note is to be heard in modern subjects of study, is noticeable in all paths of intellectual prestige.

I would have liked to ask my sister, how high the water had risen; but felt it was wiser not to mention the subject to her.

We have, in looking at the subject in the light of science, a time when there was not on the earth, in the air, or in the water, any living thing.

Why should you be?" "Well," returned the other contemplatively, "it really might be regarded as a subject for investigation.

He had once imparted to us his feelings on that subject with a frank and tender simplicity, highly graceful in an upright and magnanimous being, conscious of no sentiment that he could wish to conceal.

"You switched him on to that subject on purpose, and by means of something uncommon like a lie.

I was dismayed at first with the number of letters received from all over France asking my intercession with the minister on every possible subject from a "monument historique" to be restored, to a pension given to an old schoolmaster no longer able to work, with a large family to support.

His first gruff resentment had been in a manner disarmed and he dearly loved to talk, especially on so interesting a subject as "the nabobs."

As one soon tires of preaching to the winds, the Brahmin contented himself with asking his new acquaintance to think more on the subject at his leisure; and we proceeded on our walk.

The Rev. Charles Garrett, the celebrated teetotal President of the Wesleyan Conference, writing several years after John Cassell's death, says: "I signed the pledge of total abstinence in 1840, after hearing a lecture on the subject by the late John Cassell.

Tepidly, indifferently and rather amusingly she prattled on without ceasing, on every subject under the sun, and was socially a valuable help because where she was there was never an awkward pauseor any other kind.

He was no more scrupulous on most subjects than the ordinary man of his own class.

This claim, wild as it may seem; this claim, which supposes dominion without authority, and subjects without subordination, has found among the libertines of policy, many clamorous and hardy vindicators.

Perhaps, moreover, the rest of the family felt that they would be better able to discuss the important subject before them, after Dab had taken himself out into the open air; for none of them tried to stay his going.

3. Content of Classical Rhetoric Classical rhetoricians commonly divided their subject into five parts.

Subjects like these might be worked out to advantage.

He and W. were old friends, had travelled in the East together and discussed every possible subject during long starlight nights in the desert.

Let him speak his opinions thus on all subjects within the range of human investigation, upon science, philosophy, politics, religion, morals; and leave to little minds to settle the question of consistency or change.

" The boy glanced at him, but answered nothing, and the lawyer thought best not to pursue the subject After smoking a moment in silence he remarked: "Your aunt is failing fast."

When she appeared weak it was on some subject about which she was indifferent.

For what does he sayand say not (remember always) of Christian magistrates in a Christian country, but actually of heathen Roman magistrates? "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.

"If the President does not take up this matter of organization and systematically apportion the subjects between us, we may possibly have no peace before June.

It was the custom of this prince, when he imagined himself injured, to despatch secretly some of his subjects against the aggressor, to charge them with the execution of his revenge, to instruct them in every art of disguising their purpose; and no precaution was sufficient to guard any man, however powerful, against the attempts of these subtle and determined ruffians.

With mistaken, motherly kindness, she tried to put the subject out of my thoughts.

Without giving further instances of these odd plant names, we would conclude by quoting the following extract from the preface of Mr. Earle's charming little volume on "English Plant Names," a remark which, indeed, most equally applies to other sections of our subject beyond that of the present chapter:"The fascination of plant names has its foundation in two instincts, love of Nature, and curiosity about Language.