We do not claim to be infallible; as the proverb says, “accidents will happen in the best regulated families;” but so far as integrity and the exercise of the utmost care and circumspection on the part of the Proprietors, and the employment by them of experienced and careful hands, will ensure correctness, purchasers may rely upon every variety sent proving true to name.

Having a name some people thought of as feminine had turned Beverly Lamartine to building up his muscles in his youth, and they still bulged, hard as ingots in some places, now lost in others.

[…] how dare we indulge this sectarian arrogance, this secret heart-burning, these vile attacks upon each other's honest peculiarities, this struggle for pre-eminence, and this untruced war among ourselves […]

although we do not meet among the missionary linguists that marvellous variety of languages which excites our wonder, yet we find in them abundant evidences of a solid and practical scholarship