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with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct, that his forces were totally routed. Robertson.

ed in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received standart. F. W. Robertson.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

me things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth. F. W. Robertson.

Harm. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.

ian religion. Locke. He counted it no derogation of his manhood to be seen to weep. F. W. Robertson.

nd; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

ientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a philosophical one. G. C. Robertson.

color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

ially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.

causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed. Robertson. So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole. Hazlitt.

e of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson.

tanding." The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.

d plant related to the trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed poisonous. -- Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium (G. Robertianum.)

an not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. F. W. Robertson.

ality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

tion of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

s intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

per blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.

oldsmith. That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh. F. W. Robertson.