United States or Cook Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
That if the people now commit an error, their error is on the part of mercy; and that perhaps history cannot shew a time in which the life of a criminal, guilty of nothing above fraud, was refused to the cry of nations, to the joint supplication of three and twenty thousand petitioners. Hawkins's Johnson, p. 528.
When he was asked whether he had ever mentioned Formosa before him, he said, "he was afraid to mention even China." We learn from Hawkins's Life of Johnson, p. 547, that 'Psalmanazar lived in Ironmonger Row, Old Street; in the neighbourhood whereof he was so well known and esteemed, that, as Dr. According to Mrs. Johnson.
His hands were busy, his big boots were out of sight, and it was so easy to slip from Ralph's love affair to his own, that Bud somehow, in pulling Martha Hawkins's shawl about her, stammered out half a proposal, which Martha, generous soul, took for the whole ceremony, and accepted.
"An item of judicial intelligence, which may not everywhere be duly appreciated, is the death of Mr. Justice Hawkins's fox terrier Jack. Jack has been his lordship's most constant friend for many years.
See J.H. Burton's Hume, i. 174, for an account of him. See ante, i. 242. There is an account of him in Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson. In a coffee-house he attacked the profession of physic, which Akenside, who was a physician as well as poet, defended. 'Doctor, said Ballow, 'after all you have said, my opinion of the profession of physic is this.
Hawkins was going as far as New York with the party, and said he would explain the matter on the road. The explanation was in a letter left by the colonel in Hawkins's hands. In it he promised to join Mrs. Sellers later, in England, and then went on to say: The truth is, my dear Hawkins, a mighty idea has been born to me within the hour, and I must not even stop to say goodbye to my dear ones.
Depend upon it, I will have no gentlemen on my estate! I will off with them, root and branch, bag and baggage! So do you hear, sir? come to me to-morrow morning, bring your son, and ask my pardon; or, take my word for it, I will make you so miserable, you shall wish you had never been born." This treatment was too much for Hawkins's patience.
"You see, I didn't know much about milking or babies. They'll chaff my head off, if the tale goes up North." "Let 'em," said William, haughtily. "We've all done coolie-work since we came. I know Jack has." This was to Hawkins's address, and the big man smiled blandly. "Your brother's a highly efficient officer, William," said he, "and I've done him the honour of treating him as he deserves.
Superintendent Hawkins stepped in after the boys. "Gentlemen, I can't do anything more," spoke up Jim Duff, with an air of resignation. "But we can!" roared some of the roughs in the crowd. A dozen of them surged forward. The first of them swung a lariat to slip it over Tom Reade's neck. Bump! Hawkins's sledge-hammer right hand shot out, landing on that fellow's face.
'Taint likely one of Si Hawkins's children would do that for she is the same as a child of his. I told her, though, to go slow," added the Colonel, as if that mysterious admonition from him would set everything right. "Do you know anything about a Col. Selby?" "Know all about him. Fine fellow. But he's got a wife; and I told him, as a friend, he'd better sheer off from Laura.
Word Of The Day