ACQUÉRIR, devenir possesseur, par achat, par le travail, etc. ACQUITTER, déclarer non coupable.

Michael Angelo is the prophet and Sibylline seer; to him the Renaissance discloses the travail of her spirit; him she endues with power; he wrests her secret, voyaging, like an ideal Columbus, the vast abyss of thought alone.

[Footnote 164: 'The travail:' see Rev. xii.

If he deserve the name, he will disdain the imputation that either wealth or fame has ever aided at the birth of his ideal offspring: it was Truth that smiled upon him, that made light his travail, that blessed their birth, and, by her fond recognition, imparted to his breast her own most pure, unimpassioned emotion.

And where she sate the babes beside, Sits with unloving looksANOTHER! VII While the mass is cooling now, Let the labor yield to leisure, As the bird upon the bough, Loose the travail to the pleasure.

For in the same chapter, and in certain others that go before, He reckons the great travail and divers dangers with the extreme necessities that they had sustained in the desert the space of forty years, and yet, notwithstanding how constant God had been in keeping and performing His promise, for throughout all perils He had conducted them to the sight and borders of the promised land.

But, by way of striking contrast, at the same time that the works of Rabelais attest the irregularity of men's lives and minds, they also reveal the great travail that is going on and the great progress that has already been made in the intellectual condition of his day, in the influence of natural and legitimate feelings, and in the appreciation of men's mutual rights and duties.

And Raikes, the Postmaster-General; told the Queen all the travail of Baines, the Inspector-General, and of them that were with him, and how they had wrought all for the greater glory of the Queen's name.

We will now return to Philip of Valois and Edward III., and to the struggle between them for a settlement of the question whether France should or should not preserve its own independent kingship, and that national unity of which she already had the name, but of which she was still to undergo so much painful travail in acquiring the reality.

First and last, I had rather exceptional opportunities for viewing the travail of Belgium.

My heart gave one bound, and then seemed wholly to cease its travail.

50 Our wants exact at least that moderate stay: For see the Dragon winged on his way, To watch the travail, and devour the prey.