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The glossary to the Lancashire dialect informs us, that 'lieve me comes from beleemy, believe me; from belamy, my good friend, old French. "Every thing speaks against us, even our silence." Lord Chatham. Your hands alone have a right to conquer the unconquerable. And when Caesar was the only emperor within the dominion of Rome, he suffered me to be another. This bull was really made.

Hell of a country, isn't it? where the ice is 'YELLOW' and the butter is 'MEANT TO KILL YOU, and does." O'Reilly laughed. "You've been studying a guide-book, 'with complete glossary of Spanish phrases. By the way, Carbajal said you are a writer." Mr. Branch nodded listlessly. "I'm supposed to report this insurrection, but the Spaniards won't let me. They edit my stuff to suit themselves.

The French, always so quick to give things names and so liberal about it that, to the embarrassment and undoing of the unhappy foreigner, they sometimes invent fifty names for one thing have added so many words to the vocabulary since August, 1914, that a glossary, and perhaps more than one, has been published to enshrine them.

To find whether a wanted word in ab- occurs in this glossary, it was necessary to look through more than two columns containing ninety-five entries. An important collection of these early beginnings of lexicography in England was made so long ago as 1857, by the late distinguished antiquary Thomas Wright, and published as the first volume of a Library of National Antiquities.

And Du Cange himself notices, in his Glossary, the relation which this bore to the Pagan Sortes. 'It was, says he, 'a fantastical way of divination, invented by the Jews, not unlike the Sortes Virgilianae of the heathens.

We have multiplied our daily seasons of refreshment, and eat and drink far oftener than our ancestors; but the truly genteel Briton never sups; the word is scarcely in his vocabulary, like Beau Brummel and the farthing "Fellow, I do not know the coin!" In a glossary of the tenth-eleventh century only two meals are quoted: undermeat = prandium, and even-meat = coena.

Major, for the Hakluyt Society, in 1849, with a glossary, by Strachey, of the native language. I owe to the kindness of Mr. Augustine's curious anecdote in De Cura pro Mortuis habenda about the dead and revived Curio.

The last version "Der Demotische Roman von Stne Ha-m-us, von J. J. Hess" being a full study of the text with discussion and glossary, has been followed here; while the interpretation of Maspero has also been kept in view in the rendering of obscure passages.

Both also, in their strong, easy colloquial way, tend to become difficult and obscure; the obscurity in the case of Villon passing at times into the absolute darkness of cant language. They are perhaps the only two great masters of expression who keep sending their readers to a glossary. "Shall we not dare to say of a thief," asks Montaigne, "that he has a handsome leg?"

"The Ayrshire Ploughman" was the title of the article, and it set forth all the imperfections of his breeding, his want of education, his ignorance both of books and of the world, and yet the amazing verses he had produced, which, though disguised in a dialect supposed to be unknown to the elegant reader, and for which Henry Mackenzie, the Man of Feeling, supplied a glossary living, he himself, in an old-fashioned house in the South Back of the Canongate and within the easiest reach of those wonderful old ladies who spoke broad Scotch, and left no one in any doubt as to the strong opinions expressed therein were certified to be worthy the perusal of the most fastidious critic.