In pursuing my studies, I have crossed from side to side of the range at intervals of a few miles all along the highest portion of the chain, with far less real danger than one would naturally count on.

I began the study of law in Angelica, the county seat of Alleghany county, and as it was a good many years ago, it is fair to assume that I was a good many years younger than I am now, and that the country in that region was younger too.

She was much interested in his beginnings in England at Rugby and Cambridgeand was evidently astonished, though she had too much tact to show it, that he had chosen to make his life and career in France instead of accepting the proposition made to him by his cousin Waddington, then Dean of Durham, to remain in England and continue his classic and literary studies under his guidance.

"It won't be so long till I have finished my studies and then I can do what I please.

Being accustomed to climb trees in making botanical studies, I experienced no difficulty in reaching the top of this one, and never before did I enjoy so noble an exhilaration of motion.

He was entirely a man of work and entered the legal profession, after he had completed his studies with great distinction, for the purpose of supporting himself by it.

I suppose a man might have made his way up the various knobs, ledges, and inequalities, but it would have required long study and a careful head.

He, therefore, asked, and obtained the consent of his guardians, to prosecute his studies, so long as his patrimony would support him; and, continuing his wonted industry, gained another prize.

I did not like it; and when the necessity for some active employment came looming up in the distance, I chose a different calling, and at six-and-twenty, commenced the study of my present profession.

"What's to be done?" asked Acton, as they re-entered the captain's study.

" When Mr. P. discovered, after a little conversation in the vernacular, that his companion was a New York dry-goods clerk, he gave up the study of the French-Canadian character and went on with his breakfast.

With these amusements, in rather too great plenty, it must not be assumed that Pen neglected his studies altogether.

For those interested in the art of criticism, and in the appreciation of literature, both Hunt and Hazlitt will well repay study; but we must pass over their work to consider the larger literary interest of Lamb and De Quincey, who were not simply critics of other men's labor, but who also produced some delightful work of their own, which the world has carefully put away among the "things worthy to be remembered.

The new sense of responsibility that had come to the Whaup determined him to return at once to Glasgow, and resume his studies.

I reach the opposite door, and, as I leave the study, cast one nervous glance over my shoulder, toward the window.

Just how much study it takes to make a lawyer I cannot say, but probably not more than this.

The learned writer tells us nothing new about Samuel Rowley; but his essay well deserves a careful study.

But his retirement was soon at an end; for, in 1548, his pupil Grindal, the master of the princess Elizabeth, died, and the princess, who had already some acquaintance with Ascham, called him from his college to direct her studies.

" "The question of the admission of women to share the studies and society of men," rejoined Plotinus, "is one by no means exempt from difficulty.

You have carried the study of individuals farther.

But I can assure them that they will find such lofty studies do them good only in proportion as they have first learnt the art of learning.

Despite Louise's cynicism she had no intention of abandoning her studies.

Then should follow a course in the ideals of the race, the classic studies in language, literature, history, science, and philosophy.

View the forest from beneath or from some commanding ridge-top; each tree presents a study in itself, and proclaims the surpassing grandeur of the species.

In every woodland, too, innumerable fungi are at work, raising from the lower soil rich substances, which, strewed on the surface by quick decay, will form food for plants higher than themselves; while they, by their variety and beauty, both of form and colour, might well form studies for any painter, and by the obscure laws of their reproduction, studies for any philosopher.