Tuum est—It is thine.
Tout est perdu fors l'honneur—All is lost save our honour.
Griffin, Humphreys, and Mackenzie were good corps commanders, but came into that position so near to the close of the war as not to attract public attention. The Dog is useful both for the Guard of the House, and the pleasure of Hunting in the Field, and therefore their God whom they call Anubis, they represent with a Dog's Head, signifying thereby that a Dog was the Guard both to Osiris and Isis. Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, 25 both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it. St. Secretary Boyle to write to the Allied sovereigns and to the States-General to assure them that nothing was farther from her thoughts than the removal of the Duke of Marlborough from his command, and that she still proposed to conduct her government by the same party. She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city.
The name of the new ruler who now came to power in Babylon was Nabopolassar; but it cannot be asserted with confidence that he was of Chaldean origin. He often fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking. The other way, of offering a man’s self and the utmost service he is able to do, both to one party and the other, has still less of prudence in it than conscience. Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, iv. Except for this, if we set aside a single strip of coast land in the country between the two Syrtes (Tripolis, Leptis) and in Cyrenaica (Bengari), this whole territory is totally destitute of all higher civilisation.
His was a reign which had seen much war, much poverty, much famine, and worse than these, the Great Plague. As a lad I used to go to the north woods, in Maine, both in fall and winter. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. The word fiddle antedates the appearance of the violin by several centuries, and in England did not always represent an instrument of the same type. The situation of Asshur seems to point to a close connection with Babylonia rather than with northern Mesopotamia, and for the present, at least, it seems most likely that we ought to regard it as a vassal state to Babylonia or the Kingdom of the Four Quarters of the World.
6d.; post 8vo, illust. It was growing light, the sky was clearing, only a single cloud lay in the east. For as to the first, by raising the value of the place, we raise the value and the desire of the conquest.
Griffin, Humphreys, and Mackenzie were good corps commanders, but came into that position so near to the close of the war as not to attract public attention. The Dog is useful both for the Guard of the House, and the pleasure of Hunting in the Field, and therefore their God whom they call Anubis, they represent with a Dog's Head, signifying thereby that a Dog was the Guard both to Osiris and Isis. Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, 25 both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it. St. Secretary Boyle to write to the Allied sovereigns and to the States-General to assure them that nothing was farther from her thoughts than the removal of the Duke of Marlborough from his command, and that she still proposed to conduct her government by the same party. She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city.
The name of the new ruler who now came to power in Babylon was Nabopolassar; but it cannot be asserted with confidence that he was of Chaldean origin. He often fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking. The other way, of offering a man’s self and the utmost service he is able to do, both to one party and the other, has still less of prudence in it than conscience. Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, iv. Except for this, if we set aside a single strip of coast land in the country between the two Syrtes (Tripolis, Leptis) and in Cyrenaica (Bengari), this whole territory is totally destitute of all higher civilisation.
His was a reign which had seen much war, much poverty, much famine, and worse than these, the Great Plague. As a lad I used to go to the north woods, in Maine, both in fall and winter. Now what was the colonel to do? Have the officer tried and disgrace the whole regiment? Disgrace the whole regiment because of one scoundrel? Is that how you look at it? We don’t see it like that. The word fiddle antedates the appearance of the violin by several centuries, and in England did not always represent an instrument of the same type. The situation of Asshur seems to point to a close connection with Babylonia rather than with northern Mesopotamia, and for the present, at least, it seems most likely that we ought to regard it as a vassal state to Babylonia or the Kingdom of the Four Quarters of the World.
6d.; post 8vo, illust. It was growing light, the sky was clearing, only a single cloud lay in the east. For as to the first, by raising the value of the place, we raise the value and the desire of the conquest.