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It was in this office that he became the colleague and fast friend of Charles Greville, who on his death-bed entrusted him with the publication of his 'Memoirs. Mr. Reeve had now obtained an assured income and a steady occupation, but it was far from satisfying his desire for work.
He spoke in a low clear tone that seemed to thrill her with a sort of alarm. "If the secrets of men's hearts were probed, who could cast the first stone?" "I don't want to cast stones," she began; but he made a gesture as if he would not hear, and, at the same moment, Mr. Ogilvie entered the room.
He never gave me any reason, I'm sure, to think so; but I did fancy that Mr. Mountague liked me." "And," said Mrs. Temple, taking her daughter's hand, "without being very silly or very vain, may not one sometimes be mistaken? Then you thought you had won Mr. Mountague's heart? But what did you think about your own? Perhaps you thought he never could win yours?"
I therefore again conclude, that the trade of infidelity hath been taken up only for an expedient to keep in countenance that universal corruption of morals, which many other causes first contributed to introduce and to cultivate. And thus, Mr. Hobbes' saying upon reason may be much more properly applied to religion: that, "if religion will be against a man, a man will be against religion."
"You are candid, my friend," said I, "and your frankness, alone, would be inestimable in this age of deceit, and country of hypocrisy." "Ah, Sir!" said my new acquaintance, "I see already that you are one of those persons who look to the dark side of things; for my part, I think the present age the best that ever existed, and our own country the most virtuous in Europe." "I congratulate you, Mr.
The author of Tract Ninety was Newman, and the ferment it made was prodigious. It was a subtle, ingenious, and plausible attempt to prove that the Articles and other formularies of the English Church might be honestly interpreted in a Catholic sense, as embodying principles which the whole Catholic Church held before the Reformation, and held still. Mr.
"I hope your hero is not too proud to fall in love?" "Too proud! We are told, you know, that the greatest hero, in the intervals of war, resigned 'To tender passions all his mighty mind." "Tender passions! Captain Walsingham is in love, then, hey?" said Mr. Palmer. "And may I ask Bless me! I shall be very sorry if it is with any body but may I ask to whom he is attached?"
Gilbert Crosby. "What do you want with him?" Martin asked. "Ah, you are the fiddler, but you are a coward." And Harriet Payne's cloak fell apart as she turned to Fellowes. "Are you Mr. Crosby's friend?" Martin gave him a quick sign. "Yes. Is he in danger? Come in and tell me."
Such was the appearance of things when the trial commenced. Leaving the minutiae of the proceedings to the legal report of Mr.
"If a white man is guilty of insurrection or rebellion, he is punished by being called 'chivalrous. I instance the rebel General Forest, who murdered white men at Fort Pillow, and is reputed the most popular man South. If a negro rebels, or conspires to rebel, he is punished with death. These are specimens." Referring to the benefits conferred by the Freedmen's Bureau upon Kentucky, Mr.
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