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In the same way I suspect that, if you were asked to give the names of any three Lord Mayors of London, you would say, "Dick Whittington, and er Dick Whittington, and of course er Dick Whittington," knowing that he held that high office three times, and being quite unable to think of anybody else. This is where I have the advantage of you.

I have no idea of making heroic pictures out of English mayors, even with the assistance of Norman arches; yet I am sure that capital pictures might be made out of English mayors, not issuing from Norman arches, but rather from the door of the "Checquers" or the "Brewers Three". The painter in question had great comic power, which he scarcely ever cultivated; he would fain be a Rafael, which he never could be, when he might have been something quite as good another Hogarth; the only comic piece which he ever presented to the world being something little inferior to the best of that illustrious master.

All things at Newmarket train the mind to racing. Life seems on the start, and dull indeed were he who could rein in his feelings when such inspiring objects meet together to madden them!" "Bravo!" exclaimed Jorrocks, throwing his paper cap in the air as the Yorkshireman concluded. "Bravo! werry good indeed! You speak like ten Lord Mayors never heard nothing better. Dash my vig, if I won't go.

The mayors and sheriffs seem to have proper concept of their duty in the abstract. The purpose of this statement is to deal with specifications. "The sections of the state which give the greatest concern have large masses of alien residents. Thousands of them do not speak the language.

The nearest officer was a commander of the 302nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery, to whom the Mayor, the head of the Husseiny family, descendants of the Prophet and hereditary mayors of Jerusalem, signified his desire to surrender the City.

'Ave you never noticed, sir, that when the Press is 'ard up for support of an opinion that the public don't 'old, they go to the Mayors, and get 'em in two columns?" "Mayors are most valuable public men," said Mr. Lavender. "I've nothin' against 'em," replied Joe; "very average lot in their walk of life; but they ain't the People." Mr. Lavender sighed. "What, then, is the People, Joe?"

Baden and Bavaria are rising; immense bodies of troops are being concentrated in the Palatinate; information reaches us from every quarter, from the great fairs and markets, that our frontier is threatened, and when the citizens, the mayors of the communes, take the alarm at last and hurry off to tell your officers what they know, those gentlemen shrug their shoulders and reply: Those things spring from the imagination of cowards; there is no enemy near here.

The habit may have given offence to importunate mayors and others the Poet Laureate himself may have been thus affronted by the imperious Cardinal, when he wrote: "He is set so high In his hierarchy Of frantic phrenesy And foolish fantasy That in the Chamber of Stars All matters there he mars. Clapping his rod on the Board No man dare speak a word;

Shortly before "Doctor" Falk's death , there settled in London Phinehas Phillips of Krotoschin, the founder of the Phillips family, which has furnished two Lord Mayors to the city of London. It was not merely because of its business facilities that England appealed to the Slavonic Jews.

The mayors and their assistants, the municipal counsellors, the grain and wood merchants, the foresters and field-guards, and all those people who had been for ten years regarded as the best friends of the Emperor, and had been very severe if any one said a word against his majesty, turned round and denounced him as a tyrant and usurper, and called him "the ogre of Corsica."