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It cost $750,000, and its library is believed to be the largest in the world, containing seven hundred thousand volumes, and increasing at the rate of twenty thousand volumes annually. Its collection of prints is also of rare value and vast extent, and by far the finest in the world. Let us now take a brief glance at some well-known London sights.

I do not think that the President realized at the time that an actual propaganda was going on, and I doubt very much whether he would have believed it if he had been told.

R. Papa ben Samuel remarks, 'Had I not been present, I should not have believed it. Doesn't this appendix about ben Samuel show that it was never meant to be taken seriously?" "It has some high meaning we do not understand in these degenerate times," said Guedalyah the greengrocer. "It is not for our paper to weaken faith in the Talmud."

She did think that Miss Altifiorla had, as it were, gone over to the enemy. That she had been prepared to pardon. The enemy had in fact told no falsehood in his letter. It had been her misfortune that the story which he had told had been true; and her further misfortune that her husband should have believed so much more than the truth.

The people of the United States believed this in the election of 1916. They trusted him sincerely then because "he kept us out of the war" until the inevitable hour.

Pellew heard the last opinion and retired for the night at nine minutes past. But he first made sure that that Quarterly Review was in evidence, and glanced at the Egyptian article to confirm his impression of the contents. They were still there. He believed all his actions were sane and well balanced, but this was credulity. One stretches a point sometimes, to believe oneself reasonable.

I do not often ask a man twice, but I ask you. Will you join the League to-night, and marry Lorance to-morrow?" No man could have spoken with a franker grace. I believe then, I believe now, he meant it. M. Étienne believed he meant it. "Monsieur," he answered, "I have shilly-shallied long; but I am planted squarely at last with my father on the king's side.

I was discovered by a man whom I believed to be a hired agent of the Government, who only had to give a glance to one of the sbirri with whom Mestre swarmed to have me arrested. I told him to speak softly, and getting down I asked him to come to one side.

As the main body of the British army was cantoned in Jersey, and a strong detachment occupied Rhode Island, General Washington believed that New York could not be perfectly secure.

Colonel Eden, however, still clung to the belief that the daughter he believed in would eventually be found, and he even contemplated adding a clause to his will, in which everything was left unconditionally to his son, to make provision for her.