United States or Lebanon ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


It is positively impossible to calculate what we all owe to the man that gave us iho steam-engine. It is sober truth that the inscription in Westminster Abbey tells, when it speaks of him as among the 'best benefactors' of the race. Yet what an unsound organization that great man had! Mentally, what a screw!

"'The Prodigal Son' is indeed a notable novel; and a work that may certainly rank with the best of recent fiction...." Westminster Gazette. "A beautiful romance of the days of Robert Burns." Nancy Stair. A Novel. By Elinor Macartney Lane, author of "Mills of God." Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

Margaret's, Westminster, and there heard a sermon, and did get a place, the first we have heard there these many years, and here at a distance I saw Betty Michell, but she is become much a plainer woman than she was a girl.

His father, William Buckland, at the time of the son's birth canon of Christ College, Oxford, and subsequently Dean of Westminster, was the well-known geologist. As the father's life was devoted to the study of the inorganic, so that of the son was absorbed in the investigation of the organic world.

"Oh, yes!" exclaimed the child, gleefully; "that I will; that would be so nice a coach and four a velvet frock a great lady oh! dear me!" The mother felt her limbs tremble, her heart sink. "Oh! my own dear mother, will not that be nice? and the beautiful sights you have told me of St. Paul's and Westminster oh! mother, we shall be so happy!" "Not me, Rosa," answered Mrs.

The people of the west, together with portions of Westminster, Ashburnham, and Ashby, had presented to the General Court a powerful petition for an act of incorporation into a town. This meant business, and the inhabitants of Fitchburg drew up a spirited remonstrance, in which they were joined by the people in those portions of the three adjoining towns not included in the proposed new township.

Paul proposed that I should walk with him down the Westminster Bridge Road, until we reached the House, and then he would see me into a cab. I did as he suggested. It was still early, not yet ten, and the streets were alive with people. Our conversation, as we went, was entirely political.

Chamberlain's Tariff Reform Campaign was their failure to secure even a tolerably good tune. Westminster Gazette, June 11, 1898. Only less automatic than those of colour or tune come the emotional associations called up by the first and simplest meaning of the word or words used for the party name.

In this trouble, I went to take a walk in Westminster Hall and by chance met with Mr. Browne' and five servants, all at a great loss, not finding me here, but at my coming she was overjoyed. "Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any case." her, though he knew her well and she him.

About this period a treaty of mutual defence and guarantee between his majesty and the king of Prussia, was signed at Westminster. In the house of commons Mr. Lyttelton made a motion for reviving the place-bill; but it was opposed by a great number of members who had formerly been strenuous advocates for this measure, and rejected upon a division.