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Gauden, a Presbyterian minister, but which was believed to have been composed by the king himself in his later hours of captivity, and which reflected with admirable skill the hopes, the suffering, and the piety of the royal "martyr."

With the exception therefore of some chance passengers, the square of Notre-Dame was filled with a ragged crowd, composed of the refuse of the Parisian populace wretches who call for pity as well as blame; for misery, ignorance, and destitution, beget but too fatally vice and crime.

The result has been a conviction that, as the planets are parts of solar systems, so are solar systems parts of what may be called astral systems that is, systems composed of a multitude of stars, bearing a certain relation to each other.

Though in a short memoir which he composed of his own life, he had the effrontery to write, "I have punished Sejanus, because I found him bent upon the destruction of the children of my son Germanicus," one of these he put to death, when he began to suspect Sejanus; and another, after he was taken off.

The rustic temples were generally composed of intertwined trees, in the recesses of which were placed wooden images of Pan, "the simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god." Here and there an aged man reposed in the shadow of some venerable oak; and the shepherds, as they tended their flocks, welcomed this brief interval of peace with the mingled music of reeds and flutes.

The benefits granted to the vassal are to be extended to the lower tenants. 5, How the Great Council is to be composed, and how convened, is defined. 6. The "liberties and free customs" of London and of other towns are secured. 7. Protection is given against certain oppressive exactions of the Crown. 8.

The soil on which the forest stands is composed of the accumulation of sand which the rivers mainly the Po have brought from distant mountains, and deposited in the bed of the Adriatic since the old church was built "in Classe," where the fleet once used to be moored.

He has been speaking a great deal about her to me to-day, and his anxiety is something enormous. On her mind! what a funny idea, Harry; what could have put that in your head?" "I am sure I don't know," was the husband's reply, rather ruefully given, as if conscious he had made a great mistake. "You old goose," said his wife, with an emphatic kiss, as she composed herself to her innocent slumbers.

It is only that the essays which he hopes yet to write, will not be composed in the comparative leisure of a country clergyman's quiet life. And not merely is it still a pleasant change of occupation, to write such chapters as those you have read: but the author cannot forget that to them he is indebted for the acquaintance of some of the most valued friends he has in this world.

In 1378 Salvestro de Medici signalized himself by a successful resistance to an oligarchical faction composed partly of the old nobility. The brilliant period in the history of Florence begins with this triumph of the democracy.