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I like a hit at our way of life, though it does well for me,--better than anything short of all one's time to one's self; for which alone I rankle with envy at the rich.

Miss Axtell was very quiet,--better, I was convinced.

I wonder whether, under the circumstances, it would be better"--he hesitated, and looked at her for a moment--"better--you see what I mean, don't you?"

It might be better that they should part,--better even, though the parting should be for ever.

"Nebber talk of Injin, now," answered the indignant mother--"better talk of plate.

He should begin in the natural way, by taking care of poor patients in one of the public charities, and work his way up to a better kind of practice,--better, that is, in the vulgar, worldly sense.

The bile of the author rises with his subject, and a few pages further on he throws it off in the following beautiful sentence:--"Better would it be for the honour of the English nation if they had been born in the degradation, as they are endued with the propensities, of the modern Egyptians."

Renegade.--"Better is Marruecos than Spain."

But as matters are at present circumstanced, I pray you, my dear friend, to keep to yourself every thing that might bring discredit to him, if revealed.--Better any body expose a man than a wife, if I am to be his; and what is said by you will be thought to come from me.

"I am ill," she said,--"better just now, but I feel that it will be weeks before I shall leave this place; it is good for me to be here, but this troubles me,--I don't like to think that I must take care of it; will you guard it sacredly for me?--and the letter of last night, add it to the others."

Dr. Johnson observed, the situation here was the noblest he had ever seen,--better than Mount Edgecumbe, reckoned the first in England; because, at Mount Edgecumbe, the sea is bounded by land on the other side, and though there is there the grandeur of a fleet, there is also the impression of there being a dock-yard, the circumstances of which are not agreeable.

Millicent prevented the fall, while Sterling rang for water, and Chip, peering about with more agitation than any one else, finally remarked,-- "The girl must be sick;--better take her out."

Sir,--Betterton's Instructions on the Art of Playing and Public Speaking, queried in your 5th Number, were published by the well-known dramatic critic, Charles Gildon, and form a portion of his Life of Betterton.

I've done piles of dirty work for Amelia Sniffen!'--'Better cut it out,' said the man.--'Can't, as long as I stay,' she replied.

Better," thought he, as he staggered and plunged and bumped along, extricating his boat-bonnet now from a bower of raspberry-bushes, now from the branches of a brotherly birch-tree,--"better," thought he, "were I seated in what I bear, and bounding gayly over the billow.

But, as found at the old French boarding-houses at Mackinac or the Sault, or, better still, cooked fresh from the icy waters on the rocky shores of Superior, it is, to our thinking, the best fish that swims,--better than the true salmon or brook-trout.

Men an' women is like so monny cards, played wi' be two oppoanents, Time an' Eternity: Time gets a gam' noo an' then, and hez t' pleasure o' keepin' his cards for a bit, bud Eternity's be far t'better hand, an' proves, day be day, an' hoor be hoor, 'at he's winnin incalcalably fast.--"Hoo sweet, hoo varry sweet is life!"

They came up to me and bade me come with them in tones which were peremptory enough; but what of that?--better the most peremptory supervision than the lawlessness from which I had come.

She knows me jolly well,--better than you do, most worthy padre-elect.

CONTENTS CHAPTER I.--Introduction II.--Religion with Letters III.--Education as a Right of Man IV.--Actual Education V.--Better Beginnings VI.--Educating the Urban Negro VII.--The Reaction VIII.--Religion without Letters IX.--Learning in Spite of Opposition X.--Educating Negroes Transplanted to Free Soil XI.--Higher Education XII.--Vocational Training XIII.--Education at Public Expense Appendix: Documents Bibliography Index The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 * * * * * CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Brought from the African wilds to constitute the laboring class of a pioneering society in the new world, the heathen slaves had to be trained to meet the needs of their environment.

But father's motto was--'Better wear out than rust out,'--so I keep at work."

The laws of sanitation are better known, and are enforced upon the entire community by severe legal enactments.

He then told him, that tho' the King his master was looked upon as an abetter of his enemy, yet he could not help demonstrating his regard to him, by making him a present of a rich jewel of diamonds, worth more than ten thousand pounds.

In this respect, the Medici, and their abetters of the fifteenth century, discharged a portion of the debt which they had incurred to humanity.

I H OPE YOU AREBETTER DEAR AND CAN COME BACK SOON YOUR KIRK XXXXXXXXXXXX Mrs. Sturgis's feelings, on reading this production, may be imagined.

and expecting you--" "Better?--expecting me?"

When one is so near dying as I have been and yet gets better,--for I am going to get better!

I would beg my reader's attention, in the first place, to an odd superstition, countenanced by Shakspeare, and which, if he happens to lie awake some night, (say with the tooth-ache--what better?--for that purpose I mean,) he will have an opportunity of verifying.

The boy's sweetness of manners and nobility of nature conquer the old man's prejudices, and win him to sympathy and co-operation in his schemes for making the world better.--Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1889).

Better--"from morning till night."

Or better:--"from whom the tribe descended.

Better, indeed--ah, a thousand times better!--had Britain given heed to Lord Roberts, when he preached the gospel of readiness and prayed his countrymen to prepare for the war that he in his wisdom had foreseen.

True, he was a man of business, being a thriving trader to the coast of Africa, whence he imported negroes for the American market; and no man was held to understand that branch of traffic better,--he having, in his earlier days, commanded ships in the business, and thus learned it from the root.

I wonder whether, under the circumstances, it would be better"--he hesitated, and looked at her for a moment--"better--you see what I mean, don't you?"

Bulletins were brought me from her bedside,--she was better, she was worse, she was better,--how shall I tell the rest?--until at last one day came my dear friend, his lips quivering, the tears streaming down his face unrestrained, and told me that she was dead.

Couldn't do better,--I mean the city couldn't; you'd be a d---d fool to go.

No more, Horatio, replied the chevalier, with a sweetness and affability peculiar to himself; I am perfectly assured of your duty and affection to me, and am so far from taking it ill that you desire to quit my court on this score, that I think, your ambition highly laudable:--I will write letters of recommendation, with my own hand, to my brother Charles, and to some others in his camp, which I doubt not but will procure you a reception answerable to your wishes:--therefore, as it is a long journey you are to take, the sooner you provide for your departure the better:--I will order you out of my privy purse 2000 crowns towards your expences.

Methinks I am sorry she managed no better!--I shall find the recovery of her too easy a task, I fear!

I had rather publish new divinity than any other, and the more of it the better,--if it be but true.

But, if you insist on goin' ahead and earnin' your daily peck by smashin' things and layin' out the onsofisticated, all I have got to say is, that next time you've got a sure thing to make a speck, by telegrafin' me at Skeensboro, I won't mind comin' down and takin' a hand in, if my pocketin' a few hundred thousands will be the means of betterin' your morrils, by my sharin' your burden.

"Better?--In what sense better?"

Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue, Finding thy worth a limit past my praise, And therefore art enforced to seek anew, Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.

Primum locum, &c. "Greeks and Barbarians observe all religious rites, and dare not break them for fear of offending their gods;" but our simoniacal contractors, our senseless Achans, our stupefied patrons, fear neither God nor devil, they have evasions for it, it is no sin, or not due jure divino, or if a sin, no great sin, &c. And though they be daily punished for it, and they do manifestly perceive, that as he said, frost and fraud come to foul ends; yet as Chrysostom follows it Nulla ex poena sit correctio, et quasi adversis malitia hominum provocetur, crescit quotidie quod puniatur: they are rather worse than better,--iram atque animos a crimine sumunt, and the more they are corrected, the more they offend: but let them take their course, Rode caper vites, go on still as they begin, 'tis no sin, let them rejoice secure, God's vengeance will overtake them in the end, and these ill-gotten goods, as an eagle's feathers, will consume the rest of their substance; it is aurum Tholosanum, and will produce no better effects. "

He says Janet Mudge is better,--is really going to get well."

"You know a little more than that, I think, perhaps when you know me better?--It is, after all, a matter of trusting one's doctor."

She goes in the village by the name of Jennie Allen; but I like Jane better,--Jane Wood.

His time is bad: well then, he is there to make it better!--Johnson's youth was poor, isolated, hopeless, very miserable.

"--Or better:--"less general.

Better:--"like an A-Bee-Cee book."

For I go you better.--Look here, men, I make up this jack-pot to two hundred and fifty dollars, American gold coin."

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