I will remove no incumbent from office who has faithfully and honestly acquitted himself of the duties of his office, except in such cases where such officer has been guilty of an active partisanship or by secret meansthe less manly, and therefore the more objectionablehas given his official influence to the purposes of party, thereby bringing the patronage of the Government in conflict with the freedom of elections.

I contributed further to the literature of my country a theological pamphlet, of which I forget the exact title, but it dealt with the duty of fasting incumbent on all faithful Christians, and was very patristic in its tone.

The guiding principle of Spanish colonial policyto set one class against another, and to prevent either from becoming too powerfulseems to be the motive for placing so many native incumbents in the parsonages of the Archipelago.

The minister sent two of his congregation to beg the incumbent to have the bell-ringing stopped for a short time.

"Is he here?" enquired the incumbent.

" "Good heaven!" exclaimed the incumbent, starting from his chair, "what do you mean?

I speak of Gi-ri, literally the Right Reason, but which came in time to mean a vague sense of duty which public opinion expected an incumbent to fulfil.

John had enough of the sturdy Puritan in his nature to deeply feel the duty incumbent on him, and enough of the cavalier to be a gentleman, unselfish and kind.

" The two women entered, looked about with the complaisance of those who examine a hotel property, find criticism incumbent, and have no errand.

When he came, the stands of two gas lights were fixed in the holes named; but one Sunday, when wilder than usual, he gave the bottom of the right-hand stand a vehement beating, smashed his ring in the encounter, and frightened the incumbent, who, being apprehensive as to the fate of the two stands and their globes, had them shifted further back and more out of the curate's reach.

What was to hinder the incumbent from reading the tale on my forehead the moment that I again stood in his presence?

The fact was pointed out that the operation of the English law did not lessen the obligation incumbent upon Great Britain to restore the goods to their bona fide neutral owners or to the neutral consignees.

This can be done if you require the incumbents to stay in town, and do not permit any of them to handle arms either during their period of office or immediately afterward, but only after the lapse of some time, as much as you think sufficient in each instance.

[PROMPTINGS OF DIVINE INSTINCT] Dispersed through every copse or marshy plain, Where hunts the woodcock or the annual crane, Where else encamped the feathered legions spread Or bathe incumbent on their oozy bed, The brimming lake thy smiling presence fills, And waves the banners of a thousand hills.

Every now and then a new governor supplanted the incumbent, who returned to France, and a few of the chiefer officials were changed; but the most of them were Tahitian French by birth or long residence.

He took the incumbent by the hand, and spoke.

I readily and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all as men and citizens, and as among the highest and holiest of our duties, to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I can not find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States.

" "Sir!" uttered the incumbent in great amazement.

He could found churches and chapels, have them consecrated according to the ecclesiastical laws of England, and appoint the incumbents.

" "Tell me one thing," asked the incumbent quickly.