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has been collecting his thoughts for a few moments:

"It must be thus; but I will go to bed before it is too late." He had gazed the entire night and was not aware of it.

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CONCERT, LACK OF

Crazy people never act together, says the superintendent of a large asylum for the insane, quoted in The Medical Times. "If one inmate attacks an attendant, as sometimes happens, the others would look upon it as no affair of theirs and simply watch it out. The moment we discovered two or more inmates working together we would know they were on the road to recovery." It is on this account that there are so few concerted mutinies in insane asylums; so that the number of attendants does not have to be large.

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Conclusion, A Reasonable—See.

CONDEMNED, THE

"Vessels fitted unto destruction"—how many may be unconsciously so marked by their Maker! A vessel is condemned as unseaworthy; her sails are sold, her spars and rigging, and when all that can be moved is gone, the dismantled hulk is moored in some coaling station. There, black from stem to stern, with a great white number painted on her side, she floats until her timbers rot to pieces—

Anchored forever—sea-lord once, and free— Fouled by the creeping weeds that work unseen, Lashed by the mocking winds that erst we braved, Dread we the coming of the Southern night. Stars that we tamed to guide our prows of old Laugh in their sky of purple tapestry— Ay, laugh: we are condemned of man to die! (Text.)

—, Century.

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CONDESCENSION

A learned counsel (Mr. Brougham, as some say), when the judges had retired for a few minutes in the midst of his argument, in which, from their interruptions and objections, he did not seem likely to be successful, went out of court, too, and on his return stated he had been drinking a pot of porter. Being asked whether he was not afraid that this beverage might dull his intellect, he replied: "That is just what I want it to do, to bring me down, if possible, to the level of their lordships' understanding. (Text.)—, "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers."

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CONDITIONS SUGGEST COURSES

During the last years of his life a brain disease, of which he had shown frequent symptoms, fastened its terrible hold upon Swift, and he became by turns an idiot and a madman. He died in 1745, and when his will was opened it was found that he had left all his property to found St. Patrick's asylum for lunatics and incurables. It stands to-day as the most suggestive monument of his peculiar genius.—, "English Literature."

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CONDUCT, CANONS OF

Coleridge lays down three canons of criticism in literature, which hold equally in conduct and endeavor:

First, What has the author attempted to do? Second, Is it worth doing? And, third, Has he done it well?

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CONDUCT, PAST, UNCONSIDERED

Paul's doctrine, that he who offends in one point is guilty of the whole law, is illustrated in this anecdote:

A notary public was convicted of forgery and sentenced to be hanged; and being asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed, remarked that it was very hard that he should be hanged just for one line, considering the thousands of harmless sheets he had written in the course of his life. (Text.)—, "Curiosities of Law and Lawyers."

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CONFESSION

One of the duties of the writer during the first days of his clerkship was to "lock up." One morning in the very first week of his employment he found the door unlocked and a policeman standing guard. Had he for