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10, ISSUE 268, AUGUST 11, 1827*** E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration.

But, as I have already said, I have dwelt on Germany, not only because she affords such a good illustration of what to avoid, but also because she affords so clear an example of what is going on elsewhere in Europein England and France and Italy, and among all the modern nations.

He descanted on the advantages of this manual, and ocular mode of teaching the science of numbers, and gave us practical illustrations of its efficacy, by examining his pupils in our presence.

I mention this merely to show how, even in the humbler class of compilers, the Principle of Sincerity may find fit illustrations, and how honest work, even in references, belongs to the same category as honest work in philosophy or poetry.

In the march of the French army on Naples in 1501, the French commander had for lieutenant Caesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, whose career furnishes a vivid illustration of the internal conditions of Italy at this period.

To use the alibi illustration again.

This sonnet receives abundant illustration in Michael Angelo's poems.

The book abounds with anecdotes, and contains numerous illustrations.

Then it is laden with myriads of four-sided staminate cones about the size of wheat grains,winter wheat,producing a golden tinge, and forming a noble illustration of Nature's immortal vigor and virility.

The uneducated Lincoln speaks in simple, homely words, draws his illustrations from the farm, and often adds a humorous story, so apt and "telling" that his hearers can never forget the point of his argument.

"Science demonstrates that the material world presents in its history an illustration of the great principle and theory of progress.

c. The expression, to 'carry coals' (i.e. to put up with insults) is too common to need illustration.

As a manager, no doubt, he insists on doing "what the public wants" (it is nothing worse than a revival of The Merchant of Venice) and thus offers another illustration of the results of obeying that principle.

"Quite recently I saw an illustration of it.

The subject has already been too fully explained to require illustration by a general view of the whole Constitution, every part of which affords proof of what is here advanced.

I do not know a better illustration of this than a cat watching a mouse.

We publish illustrations of a Thwaites suspension pneumatic power ½ cwt.

It is unnecessary to add further illustrations on this point, as we have had occasion to speak elsewhere of the sundry other magical properties ascribed to the fern-seed, whereby it has been prominently classed amongst the mystic plants.

We subjoin a few illustrations, and first, the memorable declaration of President Jefferson, who lived and died a slaveholder.

Written lampoons of the fiercest character accompanied the illustrations.

Though I have given a detailed proof of this proposition in my chief work, I may supply one more illustration of it here, drawn from a circumstance of daily occurrence.

"And again, because Mr. Worcester inserts an illustration in his text, is that any reason why Mr. Webster's publishers should hitch one on in their appendix?

It does not fall in the way of this book to attempt many such illustrations; but it is full of hints which all readers will value as lightening up and making fresh their notion of Scripture.

[Illustration: THE NETHERMYL TOMB.]

The great game of chess was now about to commence, and, taking an illustration from that game, General Lee is reported to have said that he believed he would "swap queens," that is, advance and attempt to capture the city of Washington, leaving General Hooker at liberty, if he chose so to do, to seize in turn upon Richmond.

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