...should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at, — O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there where I have garner'd up my heart...

...vires acquirit cundo ; the discovery spread far and wide ; and whithersoever I went, I was an object for the hand of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at, as a schoolmaster that could not write. Virginia gave me for the persecutions I underwent a world of...

...could they sit in a crowded theatre, surrounded by the winkers, laughers, and sneerers, A fixed figure for the hand of Scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ? The patient endurance of such a scene, is almost above the feeling of humanity : as has been already...

...three Sundays successively, his face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at." Cromek's Remains, 206. There happened, a very few years ago, a fatal instance of the change of opinion...

...should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience : but (alas !) to make me A fixed figure, for the hand of Scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,— O! O! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well: But there, where I have garner'd up my heart ;*...

...three Sundays successively, his face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at.'' Cromek's Remains, 2fi6. * Not long since, in a certain parish in Ayrshire, a serious, sober citizen,...

...three Sundays successively, his1 face uncovered, and the awful scourge hung over him, " A fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at/' Cromek's Remains, 2fi6. * Not long since, in a certain parish in Ayrshire, a serious, sober citieen,...

...better than the plot and cast of ill-conceived representations. I should not like to be "a fixed figure for the hand of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at;" nor do I feel inclined " to unlace my reputation for the name of a night-brawler." Something too much...

...Sundays successively, hii face uncovered, and tin- awful icoarge hung orer him, •' Л fixed figure for the hand of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at." ISLE OP BUTE. I was struck with the great difference' which exists between this Island and the one...

...they would give Free Masonry like chaff to the winds ; they, too, would make it : " A fiied figure for the hand of scorn, '• To point his slow, unmoving finger at." For their sake we v/ill examine : V/hat is an oath ? What constitutes its binding principle, its strong...