It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.

The pureſt geometry has taught us, that lines may be taken as generated by motion, and that magnitude, in the abſtract, may be conſidered as repreſented by lines ſo generated; and conſequently increaſing quantity by increaſing lines: the crude paralogiſms of a vitiated metaphyſics, ſetting themſelves in oppoſition to the very poſtulates of all geometry, the truth of which we recognize by intuition, may pretend, that motion is a principle foreign to the nature of the ſubject; we are not to rank theſe ſcioliſms among the things which the rigour of the most exact reaſoning requires.

Peking Gazette, the-(continued). ... Volume for 1890. ... Nov. 7. Typhoon at Tai-pei, Kelung, Tamsui, and Miaoli on 16 August.

I take it you're not a very big fan of the carrot?