When Germain had blamed Carleton for not carrying out the idiotic winter siege of Ticonderoga, Carleton, in his official reply, 'could only suppose' that His Lordship had acted 'in other places with such great wisdom that, without our assistance, the rebels must immediately be compelled to lay down their arms and implore the King's mercy.'

"That same lord that showed mercy on yonder poor maimed wretch?

This, Sir,cry mercy, my Lord,'tis Don Carlos, Sir, the Governor.

You may send it forth in agony, if you will: for I am in your power, and I ask no mercy from those to whom I would have shown none.

And yet" "How then shall ye expect mercy?

Ah! are not those gracious words a comfort to every mother, bidding her, in the Lord's own name, to come boldly where mothersof all human beingshave oftenest need to come, to the throne of Christ's grace, to find mercy, and grace to help in time of need?

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.'

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

They had the reputation of being sound lawyers if not overafflicted with a sense of professional dignity, whose word was better than their bond, yet who, faithful to their clients' interests knew no mercy and gave no quarter.

And will you grant no mercy?

Sir, on my bended Knees, thus low I fall To beg your mercy.

If the close of this revolt be not stained with retaliating cruelties, if English soldiers remember mercy, then the whole history of this time will be a proud addition to the annals of England.

At the instance of the prime minister, Ben Dris, they were pardoned; but, instead of receiving gratefully this imperial mercy, the troops broke out afresh in rebellion, which, with great difficulty, was quelled by the Sultan.

The one which Ezekiel lays downthat the bad man's son who executes God's judgments and walks in God's statutes shall not die for the iniquity of his father, but surely live; and the other law which Moses lays downthat God shews mercy unto thousands of generations, as I believe it meansthat is, to son after father, and son after father again, without endas long as they love Him and keep His commandments.

How beautiful it reads in Father Caswall's translation: "Now with the fast departing light, Maker of all, we ask of Thee Of Thy great mercy, through the night, Our guardian and defence to be.

If ever foe deserved no mercy, Guthrum and his army were the men.

Spread it, then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.

"I would crave thy mercy," said he.

It appears that she came to entreat mercy for some one.

The master acknowledged countless mercies.

* * Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull Suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate? Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries invoke the mercies of the skies? Enquirer, cease; petitions yet remain, Which Heaven may hear; nor deem religion vain.

And when at last our mouth is stopped, when our last poor plea is silenced, when with penitent and obedient hearts we seek the mercy to which from the first we have been utterly shut up, then indeed we "have found the ground wherein Sure our soul's anchor may remain.

'Tis a mercy your worship did not singe your mustachios.

Ye greybeards that have seen Duke Ivo's mercy, arm ye!

They alone (he holds) are in the state of damnation that refuse Christ's mercy and grace, when it is offered.