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They adopted as their motto, 'No union with slaveholders. Their hope for abolishing slavery was in inducing the North to dissolve the Union.
There was, of course, some difficulty in keeping all things in order, but then Vivian Grey was such an excellent manager! and then, with infinite tact, the said manager conciliated the Classics, for he allowed St. Leger Smith to select a Greek motto, from the Andromache, for the front of the theatre; and Johnson secundus and Barlow primus were complimented by being allowed to act the chairmen.
I cry Oyez, Oyez, but she is bent over "Trilby," and I am but the shadow of a name of a name that is interesting enough tacked on to my favourite motto or a brief autobiography, and may serve to round off her autographic alphabet. Will not Mr.
We had better not renew this theme. 'Patient continuance in well-doing; let this be your motto, and if happiness in this world be not your reward, immortality and glory in the next will be yours." I looked after her as she gently retreated, and as the light glanced on the folds of her silver gray dress, she seemed to me as one of the shining ones revealed in the pilgrim's vision.
Priestley selected for the motto of his "Disquisitions," that "if any one should ever demonstrate the soul to be material, far from being alarmed at this, we should only admire the power which could give to matter the power of thinking." We conceive that the language both of Locke and Bonnet on this particular point amounts to a dangerous and very unnecessary concession.
More difficulty with the archers. They send for help for the Prince of Wales. Flight of the King of France from the field of battle. Account of the old King of Bohemia. Origin of the motto and device of the Prince of Wales. Fate of Calais. The six citizens. Margaret of Calais. John of Gaunt.
And so it truly is if the very broadest and highest possible meaning is given to the word 'art. If it means the embodying of some noble, beautiful, soul-moving thought in a form that can be seen and understood, and means nothing less than this, then it is indeed a worthy motto. But to too many, I fear, it means only the painting of beauty for beauty's sake.
"Where's Alice?" cried Paul, who was holding back in readiness for his appearance in the scene. "Where's Alice?" "Isn't she there?" gasped Ruth, rising on her elbow. "No, she isn't. She must be " "Hold that pose, Ruth! Don't stir or you'll spoil the scene!" yelled the director. "We'll get your sister!" "The show must go on!" This is the motto of circus and theatrical performers the world over.
I am a vampyre still." "Spare me! spare me!" "Blood!" Flora sank upon her knees, and uplifted her hands to heaven. "Mercy, mercy!" she said. "Blood!" said Varney, and she saw his hideous, fang-like teeth. "Blood! Flora Bannerworth, the vampyre's motto. I have asked you to love me, and you will not the penalty be yours." "No, no!" said Flora.
It caused him serious annoyance if one of his comrades noticed a scrap of the motto peeping out from under his sleeve, and wanted to see the whole inscription. One day when he was out walking in the town he noticed on a door a brass plate bearing the announcement: "Dr. Büchsenstein, specialist in skin diseases, &c."
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