The Disagreeable Girl is always pretty, at least we have been told she is pretty, and she fully accepts the dictum.

Although some of Ruskin's verse was good, he finally had the penetration to see that it ranked decidedly below the greatest, and he later laid down the dictum: "with second-rate poetry in quality no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind."

A page or two later he goes even further and quotes with approval a dictum that the Germans are "political donkeys."

As an apology for their seeming callousness they reiterated Aunt Victoria's dictum: "We can know nothing about it until Felix comes.

Now that the Social-Democrats, who are a not inconsiderable proportion of the Prussian population, apparently admire their Polish or Bavarian or Danish fellow-subjects all the more because they cling to their own national characteristics, Prince Bülow's Bismarckian dictum the other day, that the strength of Germany depends on the existence and dominance of an intensely national Prussia, seemed a mere political survival.

And who so bold or malicious, or age cankered as to dispute the dictum?

The late Lord Brancaster was much addicted to presenting prizes at schools, and he invariably employed this dictum.

CHAPTER XXVI MOLLY IN HER ELEMENT Sylvia faced her aunt's dictum with heartsick shrinking from its rigor; but she recognized it as an unexaggerated statement of the facts.

Few finer things have been said on the raison d'être of tragedy from the time when Aristotle in the Poetics formulated his memorable dictum.

He gave out this dictum in passing: "But don't trouble about your responsibility in this, Mrs. Farron.

Reason cannot grasp that dictum.

You have all heard that impressive dictum that some particular theatrical display, although moving, interesting, and continually entertaining from start to finish, was for occult technical reasons "not a play," and in the same way you are continually having your appreciation of fiction dashed by the mysterious parallel condemnation, that the story you like "isn't a novel."

and I do draw the enemy's shafts, for there is no man that heareth my contumacious dictums

"You are right, sir," said the sage; and Boswell illustrates his dictum by the authority of a "very fashionable baronet," and, moreover, a baronet from Rydal, who declared that the fragrance of a May evening in the country might be very well, but that he preferred the smell of a flambeau at the playhouse.

The result of Turnbull's shot at the disappearing fiend certainly justifies old Andrew Moreton's dictum, which is thus expressed in his curious "History of Apparitions": "I warn rash brands who, pretending not to fear the devil, are for using the ordinary violences with him, which affect one man from anotheror with an apparition, in which they may be sure to receive some mischief.

" In connection with hops, the proverb runs that "hops make or break;" and no hop-grower, writes, Mr. Hazlitt, "will have much difficulty in appreciating this proverbial dictum.

Relief at the elimination of the special bottle with its inevitable consequences and resentment that Dicky should so weakly obey the dictum of another woman, battled with each other.

A better opportunity for the South to obtain a favorable dictum could never be expected to arise.

It would be easy to multiply these statistics to any extent; but they all point one way, and no medical statistician now pretends to oppose the dictum of Hufeland, that "a certain degree of culture is physically necessary for man, and promotes duration of life.

This is opposed to the opinion of Lord St. Leonards, who admits, however, that the decision of the court must overrule his dictum.

"What bet will you take that a new one will be the first thing subscribed for?" said the deacon, bringing a certain grave look on the faces of both the elder clergy, and a horror-stricken one upon Anne's; while Cecil pronounced her inevitable dictum, that at Dunstone Mr. Venn always preached in a gown, and "we" should never let him think of anything nonsensical.

But whether he withheld his dictum, or it was disregarded by the others, no influence of his can be detected in the literature of the epoch.

Here, of course, one recalls Mark Pattison's famous dictum, 'The librarian who reads is lost,' about which there is much to be said, both pro and con; but we must not be put off our inquiry, which is: Who are these librarians, and whence come they?

"I have reconsidered my dictum regarding you.

" Young New York produced from his breast-pocket the blue enamelled case in which reposed his ivory tablets, and, seating himself upon the chain-box, wrote down with golden pencil the dictum of the sage.