...belong to all time, and stand aloft the land-marks of Literature. Fanny. And no wonder; for are we not " the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." Mrs. Smith. Exactly so. But if I tell you what I think of THE OOLHKN LEGEND, shall I pique curiosity...

...roots are among the generations of the dead, and we draw nourishment from their graves. W <: are ' the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.' The thousandfold influences of the past environ us. Ihe words and thoughts, the reason and unreason,...

...administrative experience. We were standing, at the annexation of the Punjab, in the position of men who are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." It was then well known that every theory had been tested in practice, that every crotchet had been...

...benefit through a long succession of years that they have left a large inheritance to us who are " the heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." The property thus stored up for our comfort and advantage does not consist of money, or houses, or...

...science and refinement, trained in the highest culture, rich in the noblest endowments, — " These, the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — worship much as the barbarians of old did, and much as the savages do now, and fall prostrate before...

...science and refinement, trained in the highest culture, rich in the noblest endowments, — " These, the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — worship much as the barbarians of old did, and much as the savages do now, and fall prostrate before...

...sordidness — for he had always a generous sympathy with the aspirations, the magnanimities of them who are the heirs " of all the ages in the foremost files of time ;" and because he gave them sympathy, he acquired over them influence, and received reverence. His...

...its own additions, and bequeathes the whole to its successor ; so that We of the present stand as ' The heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time.' 3. Knowledge is thus a growth. It begins in the common information of the uncultivated ; it develops,...

...those glorious associations which exalt a nation. Yet how shall we, spoilt children of civilization — The heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — duly learn to appreciate this greatest of gifts that the past has bequeathed to us. That excellent...

...well-educated humanity to cast aside all its traditions and disavow the training of its youth. They are " the heirs of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ;" and the world would hardly give them a hearing, if they did not so represent themselves. They must...