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In view of its rusty legislation and legislators, we recommend Congress to hang out a sign--"Highest prices paid here for old iron."

Reads'High and Mighty,-You shall know I am set naked on your kingdom.

Barshar is one of the deserted villages; the boundary between Gharan and Shignan is the Kuguz Parin (in Shighai dialect means "holes in the rock"); the Persian equivalent is "Rafak-i-Somakh." (

de la Chine occidentale, p. 45), says that the name Kashgar is made of Kash, fine colour, and gar, brick house.--H. C. Kashgar was the capital, from 1865 to 1877, of Ya'kub Kushbegi, a soldier of fortune, by descent it is said a Tajik of Shighnan, who, when the Chinese yoke was thrown off, made a throne for himself in Eastern Turkestan, and subjected the whole basin to his authority, taking the title of Atalik Ghazi.

Thus, the Shighnani sometimes called Shighni is spoken in Shignan and Roshan, the Ishkashami in Ishkasham, the Wakhi in Wakhan, the Sanglichi in Sanglich and Zebak, and the Minjani in Minjan.

The Net superhighway is the high-speed Internet.

The injurious effects of excessive smoking,"--"there is no more pitiable object than the inveterate smoker,"--"sedentary life is incompatible with smoking,"--highly pernicious,--general debility,--secretions all wrong,--cerebral softening,--partial paralysis,--trembling of the hand,--enervation and depression,--great irritability,--neuralgia, --narcotism of the heart: this Chamber of Horrors forms a part of the very Temple of Tobacco, as builded, not by foes, but by worshippers.

To understand it, picture a modern road network of trans- continental superhighways connecting large cities.

the glorious heights of marble, melting in the golden dome, Where the grand mosaic pictures, veiled in warm and misty softness, Swim in faith's religious trances,--high above all heights of Rome.

A mighty arm, a noble thigh, and shoulders--body o' me!

One i' th' neck and two i' th' thigh- there's nine that I know.

My man, before Celsus’s time, such was the general ignorance of our noble science, that, in order to prevent the excessive effusion of blood, it was deemed indispensable to operate with a red-hot knife”—making a professional movement toward the thigh—“and pour scalding oil upon the parts”—elevating his elbow, as if with a tea-pot in his hand—“still further to sear them, after amputation had been performed.”

On the same occasion, at the depth of from one and a half to three and a half feet, were found numerous remains of the early inhabitants--skulls, ribs, bones of men and animals, a child's thighbone inserted in a spiral of brass wire, several stags' horns, beautifully-formed dishes and vessels, some of them painted, probably of Chinese origin; striped bracelets, of a soft, gypseous, copper-red rock, gleaming as if they were varnished; small copper knives, but no iron utensils; and several broad flat stones bored through the middle; besides a wedge of petrified wood, embedded in a cleft branch of a tree.

So audacious has Beauty become in these latter days, so proudly she walks abroad, making so superb an appeal to the desire of the eye, thighed like Artemis, and bosomed like Aphrodite, or at whiles a fairy creature of ivory and gossamer and fragrance, with a look in her eyes of secret gardens; and so much is the wide world at her feet, and one with her in the vanity of her fairness--that I sometimes fear an impending dies irae, when the dormant spirit of Puritanism will reassert itself, and some stern priests thunder from the pulpit of worldly vanities and the wrath to come.

But (as I tell you) I seem'd not to note The Ladies notes of me, but held my talke, With that Italionate Frenchman, and tooke time (Still as our conference serv'd) to shew my Courtship In the three quarter legge, and setled looke, The quicke kisse of the top of the forefinger, And other such exploytes of good Accost; All which the Ladies tooke into their eyes With such attention that their favours swarm'd About my bosome, in my hart, mine eares, In skarffes about my thighes, upon mine armes Thicke on my wristes, and thicker on my hands, And still the lesse I sought, the more I found.

Concini (binding his scarf round his thigh.)--One moment and I am with you. (

Whirled by the cannons' rage, in shivers torn, His thighs far scattered o'er the waves are borne; Bound to the mast the godlike hero stands, Waves his proud sword and cheers his woeful hands: Tho' winds and seas their wonted aid deny, To yield he knows not; but he knows to die.

And if the house be foul With platter, dish, or bowl, Upstairs we nimbly creep, And find the sluts asleep; There we pinch their arms and thighs-- None escapes, nor none espies.

"Two hundred and fifty dollars reward, for my negro man Jim--he is much marked with shot in his right thigh,--the shot entered on the outside, half way between the hip and knee joints."

"Lunder and thightning--I mean thunder and lightning!"

Bring her up to th'high altar, that she may 215 The sacred ceremonies there partake, The which do endlesse matrimony make; And let the roring organs loudly play The praises of the Lord in lively notes; The whiles, with hollow throates, 220 The choristers the ioyous antheme sing, That all the woods may answer, and their eccho ring.

I did preiudicate Too rashly of the English; now we may Yield up the Towne.--Sirra, get you up to th'highest Enter Buzzano.

One of the devils describes him, before temptation, as "a solitary, thinking youth, entirely devoted to wisdom,--living, breathing, only for wisdom and knowledge,--renouncing every passion but the one for truth,--highly dangerous to thee Satan and to us all, if he were ever to be a teacher of the people."

This scandal resulted in a separation from Rome, as was foreseen both by Cromwell and Cranmer; and the latter became Archbishop of Canterbury, a prelate whose power and dignity were greater then than at the present day, exalted as the post is even now,--the highest in dignity and rank to which a subject can aspire,--higher even than the Lord High Chancellorship; both of which, however, pale before the position of a Prime Minister so far as power is concerned.

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.

August 25th.--Noon.--High and dry at about fifteen miles below Tientsin.

Well, well!--high time to rap again upon the door, the last door, of John Humphreyville Priddell, Trooper, ex-dairyhand, decaying carrion,--and scare from his carcass such over-early visitants as anticipated.... How hollowly the blows re-echoed.

wight, creature, being, PP, S2, C3; +wyght+, PP, S2, C3; +wight+, PP, S; +wijght+, S3; +wiht+, S, S2; +wyht+, S2; +whit+, S3; +whight+, S3.--AS.

With the assistance of G. Drummond Hunt and William E. Whightsel.

he went on, excitedly; "but you want something better, both of you,--higher, I suppose you think!

But Michael Roon had also telegraphed to Karl Steinmetz, and since the despatch of this message had the starosta dropped into the habit of standing at his doorway in the evening, with his hands clasped behind his back and his beady black eyes bent westward along the prince's high-road.

s., S, S2; +bihighte+, W; +behighte+, S2; +behihte+, S2; +bihight+, P; +biheyhte+, S; +bihoten+, pp.,

Idolatry is either a defiance or a forgetfulness of God,--high treason to the majesty of Heaven, entailing the direst calamities.

175 * Behight, named.

And when thou doost with equall insight see The ods twist both, of both then deem aright, And chuse the better of them both to thee; But thanks to him that it deserves behight@: To Nenna first, that first this worke created, And next to Iones, that truely it translated.

And he wolde let make dyyerse Instrumentes of Musick to sownen in an highe Tour, so merily that it was joye for to here; and no man scholde see the craft thereof: and tho, he seyde, weren aungeles of God, and that place was paradys, that God had behighte to his frendes, seyenge, Dabo vobis terram fluentem lacte et mel.

s., S, S2; +bihighte+, W; +behighte+, S2; +behihte+, S2; +bihight+, P; +biheyhte+, S; +bihoten+, pp.,

So I raised myself breasthigh above the wall, made a trumpet of my hands, and roared out the fearful promise I have kept this evening.

The Chinese general Chang Yao was in 1877 at Hami, which had submitted in 1867 to the Athalik Ghazi, and made it the basis of his operations against the small towns of Chightam and Pidjam, and Yakub Khan himself stationed at Turfan.

--Opinions of Contemporary Critics.--Isaac Augustus Dorner.-- Character and Principles.--Keen Definitions.--High Standards.-- Clearness and Consistency.--Hans Lassen Martensen.--Logic Swayed by Feeling.--Right Premises and Wavering Reasonings.--Lofty Ideals.-- Story of Jeanie Deans.--Correct Conclusions.--Influence of Personal Peculiarities on Ethical Convictions.--Contrast of Charles Hodge and James H. Thornwell.--Dr.

Kossuth thereupon replied:-- Gentlemen,--Highly as I value the opportunity to meet the gentlemen of the Bar, I should have felt very much embarrassed to have to answer the address of that corporation before such a numerous and distinguished assembly, had not you, sir, relieved my well-founded anxiety by justly anticipating and appreciating my difficulties.

"--High Peak News.

Then on through plenty of garden cultivation, with all the people at their doors as we passed, fat and grinning: then up to a good high- road, and a school for Coolies, kept by a Presbyterian clergyman, Mr. Morton--I must be allowed to mention his name--who, like a sensible man, wore a white coat instead of the absurd regulation black one, too much affected by all well-to-do folk, lay as well as clerical, in the West Indies.

But there is one thing that he never wants to do again--to "pal" with Fritz the square-head: "When peace is signed and treaties made an' trade begins again, There's some'll shake a German's 'and an' never see the stain; But not me," says Dan the sailor-man, "not me, as God's on high-- Lord knows it's bitter in an open boat to see your shipmates die."

let angels shout on high,-- 'Good-will to men!'

From them my people learn to fly Whate'er is mean; to chiefs they give A model and a pattern high;-- They show the life they ought to live.

There is a glory gone forth from on high!-- It quickens the heart's beat, whereon it flings Its fervour;--the flushed cheek and glowing eye Confess its influence;--and the many strings, Voiceless too long in the young heart, reply To the mute promptings of a thousand things Which Spring has conjured up;--all, all is hers-- That Glory without name--she ministers.

+High+, adj.

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