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The poet may perhaps have passed beyond the latter, but he has confined himself far within the bounds of the former, in designating these critics, as "too petulant to be passive to a genuine poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men of palsied imaginations, in whose minds all healthy action is languid; who, therefore, feed as the many direct them, or with the many are greedy after vicious provocatives."
Paul did not think so; but he made no reply to the angry man, though he ordered the alleged culprit to the mainmast, which is the locality of the high court on shipboard. "Mr. Kendall, I desire to have the gig, for the purpose of visiting the ship." "The gig, sir!" exclaimed Paul, to whom the professors were not in the habit of designating which boat they would have.
I choose to term it electro-vital fluid, or electro-vitality. My reasons for so designating it are the following: It is demonstrably electrical in its nature. It appears to be identified, or at least connected immediately, with the vitalization of the body. I wish, by its name, to distinguish it from mental vitality, or the vitality of spirit.
"No, that will be the date of the wreck of the Locke Morgeson; but three weeks from to-morrow. Must we have anybody here, Ben?" "Helen, and Alice, Cassandra?" "Certainly." "I have no friends," said Verry. "What will you wear, Verry?" I asked. "Why, this dress," designating her old black silk. Her eyes filled with tears, and went on a pilgrimage toward the unknown heaven where our mother was.
This is a reach of ocean travel which for boisterousness and discomfort can be said to rival the English Channel, between Calais and Dover. As the coast of Tasmania is approached, a tall lighthouse, one hundred and forty feet above sea-level, first attracts the attention, designating the mouth of the Tamar River.
Many stoutly assert that Montreal is the French for Mount Royal, or Royal Mount; others, that by the introduction of one letter, the name is legitimately Spanish Monte-real. Monte, designating any wooded elevation, and that real is the only word in that language for royal. The word Quebec is attributed to Indian and French sources.
It is worthy of remark that the fair sex may justly complain of almost every word in the English language designating a woman having, at some time or another, been used as a term of reproach; for we find Mother, Madam, Mistress, and Miss, all denoting women of bad character; and here Pepys adds the title of my Lady to the number, and completes the ungracious catalogue.
"Very well," he said, designating her with a benevolent finger and a bland smile, "what is it you would like to know, Cecilia?" "Please, what's the price of them little pink parasols in your show-window?" The Only Time When He Does A "Subscriber" once wrote to an editor and asked: "Please tell me, does a man in running around a tree go before or behind himself?"
Linnæus devised such a system, and to him we owe a most simple and comprehensive scientific mode of designating animals and plants. It may at first seem no advantage to give up the common names of the vernacular and adopt the unfamiliar ones, but a word of explanation will make the object clear.
The government of the United States caused the establishment to be broken up and destroyed; and, having obtained the means of designating the offenders of every description, it only remained to answer the demands of justice by inflicting an exemplary punishment.
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