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He then translated, or rather paraphrased the Timæus of Plato, of which a large proportion has come down to us, and the Protagoras, of which we have lost all but a sentence or two. We have his Oratoriæ Partitiones, in which, in a dialogue between himself and his son, he repeats the lessons on oratory which he has given to the young man.

Rachel Esmond never mentioned her eldest daughter: Madam Esmond Warrington never mentioned her sister. No. In spite of the order for remission of the sentence in spite of the handwriting on the floor of the Temple there is a crime which some folks never will pardon, and regarding which female virtue, especially, is inexorable.

An officer, willing to save his life, took him from their hands and conducted him to the prison; but the populace were clamorous for his blood, and Treslong was willing enough to satisfy them and to avenge upon Alva's favourite officer the murder of his brother by Alva's orders. The unfortunate officer was therefore condemned to be hung, and the sentence was carried into effect the same day.

"Annabel has something I don't know what " she once said to Mrs. White; and Mrs. White had finished the sentence for her. "Temperament, my dear; a gift of the gods! Annabel is naturally emotional. It is her Southern heritage. When she sings she feels; that is what you recognize and can't explain."

But pray, says he, 'you that are a critic, is the play according to your dramatic rules, as you call them? Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood? Why, there is not a single sentence in this play that I do not know the meaning of. "The fourth act very luckily began before I had time to give the old gentleman an answer.

In one of his letters it appeared that whereas no member of the House committee favored the scheme at first, there was now needed but one more vote to compass a majority report. Closing sentence: "Providence seems to further our efforts."

She takes her meals alone, and the only place where she meets the other convicts isn't it a shame to call her one! is the chapel; and even there she is separated, because Ned has given her charge of the organ. Everybody under sentence is obliged to work, but she does not go down into the general sewing room.

A judicial sentence may make them such, but the fact that some, many, or a great many know and speak of them will not do it. The public is everybody, or nearly everybody. Do not take your friends for the public, when they are only a fraction thereof.

James, the footman, entered the library before Malcolm Melvin had completed the first sentence of the reading of Patricia's stipulations, and deferentially addressed himself to Roderick Duncan: "Pardon me, sir," he said, "but there is an urgent demand for you at the telephone so urgent that I thought it necessary to interrupt you." "For me? Are you sure?" asked Duncan, in surprise.

He therefore consulted the book in which guests usually register their names, and, to his great surprise, found that the American's name was Henry Linwood, and that he was from Richmond, Va. It was with feelings of trepidation that Clotelle heard these particulars from the lips of her husband. "We must see this poor man, whoever he is," said she, as Jerome finished the sentence.