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The only mention which occurs is on the map seen by Hakluyt, and on the map of 1544, supposed, somewhat rashly, to be a transcript of it. There the discovery is attributed to John Cabot and to Sebastian his son, and that has reference to the first voyage.

I'll show you that I'm not mane, any way." "No, Connell, you shall not do it rashly; you must be cool and composed: but go home, and turn it in your mind," she replied; "and remember, that it is the request of me and my husband, for your own good." "Neither must you swear before me," said his landlord, "but before Mr.

The next sunshiny day found the skunk abroad. Though the snow-crust had frozen once more, and the air was biting cold, there was a feeling in the atmosphere which stirred the blood of the skunk. He stepped blithely forth, gobbling up a plump wood mouse that had rashly ventured forth from its safe retreat under the snow.

"I must think it over; we are both too young to act upon it rashly; it would be unfair to you, who are so quiet and have seen so few girls I mean Americans to tie yourself to the first one you have known. When I am gone you will go more into the world. There are Mr.

The results cannot easily be grasped by a mere cursory perusal of memoranda, in which we have only sketched a few salient aspects of the doctrine. We deprecate unwarrantable assurance, and are fully conscious of the difficulty of adequately expressing thought on such a theme; but we have not written rashly nor without good grounds for asking attention.

That was the beginning of it. Peggy, naturally combative, armed for the fight and defended Marmaduke. "You talk as though you were still engaged to him," said Nancy. "So I am," declared Peggy rashly. "Then where's your engagement ring?" "Where I choose to keep it." The retort lacked originality and conviction. "You can't send it back to him, because you don't know where he is. And what did Mrs.

With this brief sketch I conclude my record of the neighborhoods I have moved from. I have moved from many others since then, but they have generally presented features not dissimilar to the three I have endeavored to describe in these pages. I offer them as types containing the salient peculiarities of all. Let no inconsiderate reader rashly move on account of them.

There was an element of romance in the life he had led which appealed favourably to the seekers after novelty "a second St. Simeon Skylights" he had been rashly termed by one good lady, whose wealth outweighed her learning.

Mrs Mason went the accustomed visit to her father's, making some little show of apology to Mrs Wood for leaving her and her daughter; the apprentices dispersed to the various friends with whom they were in the habit of spending the day; and Ruth went to St Nicholas', with a sorrowful heart, depressed on account of Jenny, and self-reproachful at having rashly undertaken what she had been unable to perform.

It was all perfectly good-humored, but curious to a stranger, because of the evident care which all the disputants took to advance no proposition, even as to the prospect of rain, rashly." In such a home as this was William E. Gladstone in training as the great Parliamentary debater and leader, and for the highest office under the British crown. This reminds us of a story of Burke.