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If Johnson was thinking of him, he differed widely in opinion from Gibbon, who describes North as 'a consummate master of debate, who could wield with equal dexterity the arms of reason and of ridicule. Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 221. On May 2, 1775, he wrote: If they turned out Lord North to-morrow, they would still leave him one of the best companions in the kingdom. Ib. ii. 135.
The girl made one of her engaging, dimpled, silent laughs, as if by stealth again, changed it into a silent cry by a revulsion as natural, and rose to her feet and took Vesta in her arms. "I'm so glad, I will cry a little," Rhoda simpered, her eyes all dewy; "oh, how Misc Somers will say, 'I found it out first!"
'Jan. 26, 1748. You will not let one word of it transpire. Chesterfield's Misc. Works, iv. 35. 'It would be next to a miracle that a fact of this kind should be known to a whole parish, and not transpire any farther. Fielding's Tom Jones, bk. ii. c. 5. Tom Jones was published before the Dictionary, but not so Walpole's Letters and Chesterfield's Misc. Works.
She say thar was a preacher down yer to Girdle Tree Hill that preached the Meal-an-the-Yum was a-goin' to happen right off." "Millennium," suggested Tilghman. "Maybe so. Misc Somers call it 'the Meal-an-the-Yum, I thought. Anyway, they was all goin' to rise, right off, an' he with 'em. Lord sakes! they had frills put on thar night-gowns to rise in.
"There's plenty of others, but none like Rhudy; the woods is full of them others." "So you are the favorite? Now, what was your uncle going to do with all his money?" "Lord sakes!" Rhoda said; "he was going to marry Miss Vesty with it. That's what Misc Somers said."
"Never," said Vesta. "Well, some folks out Sinepuxin said it was a sin and a shame sech extravagins; but Misc Somers she said Uncle Meshach was rich an' hadn't but one Rhudy. It ain't quite as big as Misc Somers's bonnet, but it's draw'd mour." Here Rhoda gave a repetition of what Vesta had twice before observed an inaudible sniffle, and, being caught in it, wiped her nose on her apron.
Gibbon could have illustrated this subject, for not long before he had at Paris been 'introduced, he said, 'to the best company of both sexes, to the foreign ministers of all nations, and to the first names and characters of France. Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 227.
"Unworthily so, Miss Rhoda." "Well, I don't see how you was old enough to be convicted and learn it all, unless you was a speretual merikle. Misc Somers see one of 'em at Jinkotig. They called him the enfant phrenomeny. He exhorted at five year old, and at seven give his experyins." "Rare, Miss Rhoda," the rector said, hardly able to keep his reverence in amusement at her impetuosity.
The rest of 'em gits filled up, an' kadgin's the on'y way to kadge through of 'em, Misc Somers says." "She means warping, or pulling over a shoal inlet by a rope to an anchor, as the water lifts the vessel." "Yes, you know, Mr. Tilghman," Rhoda cried, delighted; "that's kadgin' pullin' over the bar by the anchor line.
Gibbon wrote of Lord Hailes: 'In his Annals of Scotland he has shewn himself a diligent collector and an accurate critic. Gibbon's Misc. Works, i. 233. See ante, ii. 237. See ante, ii. 79. 'Versate diu quid ferre recusent, Quid valeant humeri. 'Weigh with care What suits your genius, what your strength can bear. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet. 1. 39.
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