The Germans attribute many virtues to theſe foſſil teeth; they call them cordials, ſudorifics, and alexipharmics; and the people of Malta, where they are extremely plentiful, hang them about their children’s neck to promote dentition. They may poſſibly be of as much ſervice this way as an anodyne necklace; and if ſuſpended in ſuch a manner that the child can get them to its mouth, may, by their hardneſs and ſmoothneſs, be of the ſame uſe as a piece of coral.

After all, the English hostel owes much of its charms to Chaucer; our associations are of his haunting pictures—his delicate Lady Prioress, his comely young squire, with their pleasant interchange of tale and legend, rise upon the mind's eye in all the fascination of his vivid delineations.

Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.

In order to investigate the influence of the implicit center bias in the region contrast model (see Sec. 4.1), we calculate the performance of the locally debiased region contrast model without and with explicit center bias (LDRC and LDRC+CB, respectively; see Sec. 4.1).