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...Notice.-Ant person who intends to draw for room No. 11 Matthews, will confer a great favor by immediately calling upon or notifying the present occupants...
...distinguished, it is but momentary, and the offspring is self-supporting from the first. As we ascend we see the young more and more helpless, and drawing more and more care from the parent. The next phase of sympathy is that for the tribe, which we reach in the ant. The ants in each hill cooperate in labor; but their sympathy does not extend to ants of other hills. The sympathy for the species is the next step in development. This is best seen among domestic animals in the pig of the southern forests, where a cry of distress from...
...first part of the Philological Society's dictionary of the English language, which has been in preparation for twenty years, will appear on the 29th inst. The text is from "A" to "Ant." The period which will be consumed in the completion of the whole work will probably be twenty years more...
...doth an ant upon an ante hille...
...England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm...