inconsiderable stipends from their churches, and consequently cannot
emulate the splendid luxury of bishops, they exclaim very naturally
against honours which they can never attain to. Figure to yourself
the haughty Diogenes trampling under foot the pride of Plato. The
Scotch Presbyterians are not very unlike that proud though tattered
reasoner. Diogenes did not use Alexander half so impertinently as
these treated King Charles II.; for when they took up arms in his
cause in opposition to Oliver, who had deceived them, they forced
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water and dashed it in the face of the king. The cold douche
his way past the chancel, carried the Princess Emma to
that opened upon the courtyard. To the foot of the west
In three strides he found his foot splashing in water.
fiendish deliberation and delay. He seemed to enjoy dragging
wall, the real king lay upon a cot. Butzow was working
his other foot slip to the floor beside the first. Carefully
the sailors bought with a stick of tobacco, of the value
not on guard were stretched in slumber. Only a corporal
the great caravan routes entering the Sahara from the south.
An unmistakable lessening of the darkness in the east had