Those who sanctioned the new festivals perhaps excused themselves in their own eyes by the reflection that they were not at any rate a burden on the public purse; but it would have been in reality far less injurious to burden the public budget with a number of useless expenses, than to allow the providing of an amusement for the people to become practically a qualification for holding the highest office in the state.

In both of these I have made use of the common places of satire, whether true or false, which are urged by the members of the one church against the other.' Mr. Dryden speaks of his own conversion in the following terms; But, gracious God, how well dost thou provide, For erring judgments, an unerring guide.

It was not alone the resuscitating of a dead literary desire, but it entailed also the providing of a vehicle of expression, namely an alphabet, so deeply had the Persian domination imprinted itself upon the land.

£31,294,519 This is slightly in excess of the present cost of the personnel of the Army, but, whereas the present charge only provides for the heterogeneous force already described of 589,000 men, the charges here explained provide for a short-service homogeneous army of one million and a half, as well as for the 45,000 troops permanently maintained in Egypt and the Colonies.

On one occasion the class had repeated the paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer, which contains these lines "Give us this day our daily bread, And raiment fit provide.

In Massachusetts they have secured a referendum providing that all cities of over ten thousand inhabitants shall vote upon the question of providing adequate playgrounds.