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For the things of our country are often distant; but the things of our cosmos are always near; we can shut our doors upon the wheeled traffic of our native town; but in our own inmost chamber we hear the sound that never ceases; that wheel which Dante and a popular proverb have dared to christen as the love that makes the world go round.
"If I had a bottle of malted milk, or something like that, I'd christen it." "We ought to have a young lady to do that part," suggested Tom. "They always have young ladies to name ships." "Were you thinking of any particular young lady?" asked Mr. Sharp softly, and Tom blushed; as he replied: "Oh no of course that is well Oh, hang it, christen it yourself, and let me alone," he finished.
And the Emperor Coustans, by the counsel of the Abbot, and the will of God the all mighty, did do christen his wife, and all they of that land were converted to the law of Jesus Christ. And the Emperor Coustans begot on his wife an heir male, who had to name Constantine, who was thereafter a prudhomme much great.
Here's a pretty little girl: money I suppose in sufficiency everything satisfactory, except, I grant you, the campaigner. The lad might daub his canvases, christen a child a year, and be as happy as any young donkey that browses on this common of ours but he must go and heehaw after a zebra forsooth! a lusus naturae is she!
From the French of HONORÉ DE BALZAC. Translated by O.W. WIGHT and F.B. GOODRICH. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 130 Grand Street. 1860. pp. 387. We are very glad to see this beginning of a translation of Balzac, or de Balzac, as he chose to christen himself.
But Grace Carden, though very sleepy, made her appearance, and had a most affectionate conversation with Mr. Raby. She asked leave to christen him again. "I must call you something, you know, after all this. Mr. Raby is cold. Godpapa is childish. What do you say to 'Uncle'?" He said he should be delighted. Then she dipped her forefinger in water. He drew back with horror.
"Hold on," cried Ned seeing that Alan was ready to run up the stars and stripes. "Just a moment. Are you all ready, Mr. Mayor?" "All ready," came the answer from the town official, as he stood on a box, his hat off and a revolver in his hand. "With a western salute I christen this balloon the 'Cibola," he exclaimed, and a shot punctuated his speech. "Good luck and goodbye!"
The question of the finality of the Christian religion in its purely historical sense has been discussed by Eucken in his Truth of Religion, Christianity and the New Idealism, and Können wir noch Christen sein?
That Scotland bleeds every pore is true; but let peace be our aim, and we shall heal all her wounds." "Then I am not to cut off the ears of the freebooters in Annandale?" cried Kirkpatrick, with a good-humored smile. "Have it as you will, my general, only you must new christen me to wash the war-stain from my hand.
But Ould Pummeloe she prayed av him to christen them after the names av the stations they was borrun in. So there was Colaba McKenna, an' Muttra McKenna, an' a whole Presidincy av other McKennas, an' little Jhansi, dancin' over yonder.
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