...the creature amidst the confusion of a yet turbulent planet, " O'er bog, or steep, through strait, or dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." We have again to regret that we have no room to pursue the osteological detail, which is deeply interesting....

...for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. ' The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals...

...will accomplish a task, not a little resembling a celebrated journey described by Milton : O'er hog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. " Time," says Bacon, " seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us...

...for word, when, in the second book of his Paradise Lost, the latter has :— O'er bog or sleep, thro' strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or wades, or creeps, or flies," &c. " So eagerly the fiend The German poet says:— " Wie doch ein Sterblicher...

...o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspiau, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or ran . With head, hands, wings, or i> • i. pursues his wa\. And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps,...

...is doomed *vho will read all the older controversies on Episcopacy. There he, " O'er bog, or fltwqi, through strait, rough, dense or rare, With head, hands,...And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps or flies." Were we to adduce the most striking instance of the plastic nature of this kind of proof, we should...

...which I find Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land— And which I must follow, like the fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare— And swim, or sink, or wade, or creep, or fly. TESTIMONY OP THE EARLIER WRITERS ON NEW ENGLAND. THE...

...eminence, and breaks through the chaos of confounding technicalities into light— " O'er bog, o'er steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With...swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies"— but, dating from that period, the study is like gazing from an eminence, or travelling down hill; and...

...carrying them through for the public welfare, is but a thing of incongruous short-lived expedients, which O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues its way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. The National Education question is the...

...petition, I'll insert it as presented. Ctaremlun. Uillall. So eagerly the fiend O'er bog or steep, thiough strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way. Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. U. His temperance in sleep resembled that of his meals ; midnight...