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33524	351_ sq._ What were these remarkable monuments?
33524	But what was the massive circular monument or platform, built of huge blocks of lava laid in tiers?
33524	For our own parts, why do we wish to live but for the sake of Finow?
33524	He asked them,"Whence came ye?"
33524	How can I tell you how I knew it?
33524	How canst thou be merciless?
33524	How was all this to end?
33524	It was circular with straight[ perpendicular?]
33524	Mr. EDWARD CLODD in the_ DAILY CHRONICLE_.--"''If a man die, shall he live again?''
33524	On inquiring of the natives, who had followed us to the ground, but durst not enter here, What these images were intended for?
33524	Should a stranger ask,"What is that?"
33524	The mother of twins is also supposed to be able to help in the same way, for has she not, as the natives express it, ascended to Heaven?
33524	The people in astonishment said,"Is Lono entirely mad?"
33524	Then Maui asked his father,"What do you mean?
33524	Then Maui asked his father,"What is my ancestress Hine- nui- te- po like?"
33524	What more could he do to a god at his temple?
33524	When the child was born, the mother would call out,"To whom were you praying?"
33524	Why should a diligent man toil when he knew that the fruit of his labour might all be consumed by lazy kinsfolk?
33524	does this not evince loyalty and attachment to the memory of the departed warrior?"
33524	what have you gained?"
33524	what have you got?
33524	what things are there that I can be vanquished by?"
33524	when shall I be able to return to Tiburones?"
33524	where is a single instance of disrespect?"
20116	Blood or wax?
20116	O brother, why did you leave me?
20116	O friend, how can I live without you?
20116	Under what circumstances,he asks,"do you come to us?
20116	Wherefore did they bewitch him?
20116	Whose ghost is there?
20116	Why bury the dead at the foot of the Lông Blà ´ tree?
20116	Why need he die?
20116	''Well then,''said I,''why do you not live a little longer, and trust to your god to give you an appetite?''
20116	''What are they crying for?''
20116	Accordingly he asks the invisible passenger,"Shall we go on?
20116	And how many, or rather how few of us, on such a scrutiny would be so fortunate as to discover that there were no such inconsistencies to detect?
20116	Are they gone to Tongalevu?
20116	Are they gone to the deep sea?"
20116	But I said,''How could they hold the posts up after they were dead?''
20116	But how are we to account for this marked difference of belief between the natives of the Centre and the natives of the South- east?
20116	But how can this be done?
20116	But the father said,"If the Lord of Heaven comes and asks me for one of my children, what am I to say?
20116	But why should it be acceptable to them unless it were in accordance with their own practice in the far- away past?
20116	Cries are raised on all sides,"Why must he die?"
20116	Do my friends love me no better than this, after so many years of toil?
20116	For a long time I planted food for my wife, and it was also of great use to her friends: why then is she not allowed to follow me?
20116	Has not science falsely so called still much to learn from savagery?
20116	Having thus ascertained whom they had to deal with, they questioned the entrapped ghost,"Who stole so and so?
20116	He means to say,"Were you killed or were you done to death by magic?"
20116	Hence a living man will say to his idle son,"When I die, I shall have ants''nests to eat, but then what will you have?"
20116	His reflections, as reported by the best authority, run thus:"How is this?
20116	How can I now avenge his death?
20116	How could he have the heart to return to the desolated garden which in his lifetime it had been his pride and joy to cultivate?
20116	How could he see dead people, he asks, if they did not exist?
20116	How could the poor fluttering things beat up to windward in the teeth of the blast?
20116	How could you kill so good a man, who conferred so many benefits on me in his lifetime?
20116	How did you conduct yourself in the other world?"
20116	How is it that men so commonly believe themselves to be immortal?
20116	How many of us scrutinise the reasons of our conduct with the view of detecting and eliminating any latent inconsistencies in them?
20116	How much shell money did you leave behind you?"
20116	How then could they find their way to the spirit world?
20116	How, then, can the poor women be sure that they will ever see their dear ones again?
20116	I asked him if he believed the shark, his god, had any power to act over him?
20116	I asked him why he was going to be buried?
20116	If he had been a bad man, the speaker would say,"Poor ghost, will you be able to enter Panoi?
20116	Is it genuine or not?
20116	Is it our experience of the operations of our own minds?
20116	Is it that by volatilising the solid substance of the food you make it more accessible to the thin unsubstantial nature of the ghost?
20116	Is it that you destroy the property of the ghost lest he should come back in person to fetch it and so haunt and trouble the survivors?
20116	Nangganangga, sitting by the stone, only smiles grimly and asks, with withering sarcasm, whether they imagine that the tide will never flow again?
20116	Now what is the intention of thus applying the blood of the living to the dead or pouring it into the grave?
20116	Seeing a Tatungolung very lame, I asked him what was the matter?
20116	Shall I tell him that I have given her to you to be your cook?"
20116	Shall we go to such and such a place?"
20116	Skipping from side to side he cried in stridulous tones,"Where are the people of my enclosure?
20116	So they beat and kill the lizard and say,"Why did it speak?"
20116	That is why some of the Zulus hate the lizard, saying,"Why did he run first and say,''Let people die?''"
20116	The father did not know what that meant, so he asked Death,"What is that you will do?"
20116	The first notion concerning death is that of simple rest, and is thus contained in one of their rhymes:--"Death is easy: Of what use is life?
20116	The ghostly tollkeeper detects the fraud in an instant and roars out,"So you would cheat me of my dues?
20116	Their mother heard them and said,"What were you two saying?"
20116	Thereupon a diviner may declare that he has felt a ghost step on board; for did not the canoe tip over to the one side?
20116	To every ghost that arrives he puts three questions,"Who are you?
20116	We naturally ask, What motive have these savages for inflicting all this voluntary and, as it seems to us, wholly superfluous suffering on themselves?
20116	What could a reasonable ghost ask for more?
20116	What is the meaning of this curious and to the civilised mind revolting custom?
20116	What is the meaning of this curious sham fight which among these people seems to be regularly enacted after a death?
20116	What then is its origin?
20116	What then is the kind of experience from which the theory of human immortality is deduced?
20116	What, for example, can be expected to result from a war entered upon at such dictation and waged under such auspices?
20116	Whatever they dream of must, they think, be actually existing; for have they not seen it with their own eyes?
20116	When she rejoined her husband, he was angry, for he saw Death and said,"Why have you brought your brother with you?
20116	When the ghost arrives at the place of passage and begs for the use of the ladder, the spirit asks him,"Shall I get my bracelet if I let you pass?"
20116	Where do you come from?
20116	Who can live with him?"
20116	Who was guilty in such a case?"
20116	Who''s that dead at the foot of the breadfruit tree?
20116	Why was that so?
20116	Will no one, in love to me, strangle my wife?
20116	With what keen attention, what eager haste, would he not scan the fast- vanishing characters?
20116	[ 564] Why should the dead man''s food and property be burnt?
20116	[ Sidenote: How does the savage belief in immortality bear on the question of the truth or falsehood of that belief in general?
20116	he cries,"he, my friend, with whom I had all things in common, with whom I ate out of the same dish?"
20116	he says;''whom are they sorry for?
20116	how can we investigate the ideas of peoples who, ignorant of writing, had no means of permanently recording their beliefs?
20116	or is it our experience of external nature?
39675	And are these the only objections?
39675	And of what possible use,she exclaimed,"can the brains of old Chuang- tsze be to him now, I should like to know?"
39675	And what is it? 39675 And who,"asks the reader,"was Colonel Barnabas Clarke?"
39675	And, for Heaven''s sake, tell me what remedies do you employ?
39675	As for the coffin, what is it? 39675 HOW could the poor Abbé sustain himself against you all four?"
39675	My God,cried the lady,"has this ever happened before?"
39675	Surely you have not forgotten me,said he--"What name, sir?"
39675	Tell me instantly, will the brains of a man who died a natural death answer as well?
39675	Why give way,said Chuang- tsze,"to all this passionate outcry?
39675	Yes, madam,the old man replied.--"And pray,"asked the widow, eagerly,"what said he?"
39675	_ Who fought yesterday?_was the mode of inquiring after the news of the morning.
39675	''Why so?''
39675	*** num imperatorum scientia nihil est, quia summus imperator nuper fugit, amisso exercitu?
39675	**** And he stood, and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, why are ye come out to set your battle in array?
39675	--"Did he say so?"
39675	--"How so,"inquired the widow--"did you deliver my message correctly?"
39675	--"That is my business,"Mr. Hill replied.--"Then,"said Dr. Byles--"will you go with me, and still my wife?"
39675	--"Why so?"
39675	13,"_ will pity a charmer, that is bitten with a serpent_?"
39675	A great many ask me what color of clothes and horses will be lucky for them?
39675	Am not I a Philistine, and ye servants of Saul?
39675	And what followeth?
39675	And why should he distress himself so needlessly, in regard to the second?
39675	Are you not ashamed of yourself, to talk in this cruel way?
39675	Can not cases innumerable be stated, to prove, that it is not?
39675	Can there be no such thing as a wise and prudent government, because Pompey has been often mistaken, even Cato sometimes, and yourself, now and then?
39675	Did not the Guerriere sail up and down the American coast, with her name, written on her flag, challenging those fir frigates?
39675	Did the dead bury the dead?
39675	Dr. Byles called on Mr. Hill, and inquired--"Do you still?"
39675	Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?
39675	Follow the tetotum doctor, and swallow a purge, if P. come uppermost?
39675	Have men agreed to banish from society every man, who refuses to fight a duel, when summoned to that refreshing amusement?
39675	Henry._ How fares my lord?
39675	How was it done?
39675	How, thought I, can I meet my beloved Chuang- tsze, in the garments of heaviness?
39675	If the reader is good at conundrums, will he be so obliging as to_ guess_, upon what evidence the worthy professor grounds this assertion?
39675	Is this a fact?
39675	On their way from church--"Molly,"said the bridegroom,"whereabouts is your ticket, with that fortunate number?"
39675	Or shall we follow the example of the mutual admiration society, and get up a mutual physicking association?
39675	Or shall we go for the doctor, who works the cheapest?
39675	Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught?
39675	Secondly: shall we give up the itinerant system, and have a market- house, on_ any_ conditions?
39675	Shall we say that God hath joined error, fraud, unfitness, wrath, contention, perpetual loneliness, perpetual discord?
39675	Surprised by his behavior, she called him to her private apartment--"Well,"said she,"have you executed the business, which I gave you in charge?"
39675	The question naturally arises, and, rather distrustingly, demands an answer-- what was"_ the celebrated Mather Byles_"--celebrated for?
39675	The question recurs-- what shall be done, for the correction of this increasing evil?
39675	The seal was broken, and there was the melon seed, in a blank envelope--"And what, sir, am I to understand by this?"
39675	The sentiment of Horace applies not here--------------ridentem dicere verum Quid vetat?
39675	There were two questions before the meeting-- first: shall a vote of thanks be passed to Peter Faneuil, for his liberal offer?
39675	They were sure to gain no reputation in the contest; and, if they failed, what was their lot?
39675	This greatly excited the ire of his wife--"How dare you talk in this outrageous manner,"said she,"of the whole sex?
39675	Was there a man in the country, who did not despise the American navy?
39675	Was there a public writer beside myself, who did not doom that navy to destruction in a month?
39675	What is then the part of wisdom?
39675	What shall we do?
39675	What, then, is there no such thing as military skill, because a great commander lately fled, and lost his army?
39675	Who ever heard of a truly faithful wuzzeer, that, after the death of his master, served another prince?
39675	Who has not seen a fire rekindle,_ sua sponte_, after the officious bellows have, apparently, extinguished the last spark?
39675	Who is so dull of hearing, as not to catch the context of those dying words?
39675	Whoever heard of a widower being burnt or even scorched, on a similar occasion?
39675	Will you have me?"
39675	_ An Medicina, ars non putanda est, quam tamen multa fallunt?
39675	and for issuing a privilege to our frigates to run away from one of those_ fir things with a bit of striped bunting at its mast head_?
39675	aut cruciet, quod Vellicet absentem Demetrius?
39675	aut quod ineptus Fannius Hermogenis lædat conviva Tigelli?
39675	canst thou hear me?
38588	And so you do not consider the laying on of a Bishop''s hand necessary, to empower a man to preach the Gospel?
38588	And such it is,said he--"did you not hear my bell?"
38588	And why not, my son?
38588	Did you say all? 38588 Do you consider the Apostolical succession broken off, at the time of Dr. Freeman''s ordination?"
38588	How many corpses have you lifted, my old friend, in your six and thirty years of office?
38588	I have lived long-- did you count the strokes of my bell?
38588	If the crime was committed with a knife, or with the fists, how could it be committed with a hammer?
38588	Is n''t it a perfect pink, papa?
38588	Martin,said I,"I have always thought highly of your good opinion; but what can I say-- how can I serve you?"
38588	Perhaps not,I replied,"but now that you are dead, dear Martin, for Heaven''s sake, what''s the use of it?"
38588	This?
38588	WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH OUR CRIMINALS?
38588	Was there ever anything like this?
38588	What is it, dear mother?
38588	What, Peter?
38588	When are you going to skin Granny?
38588	Where is your father?
38588	Why, grandfather will be there, will he not?
38588	_ Your_ bell?
38588	--"Have you any other burden upon your conscience?"
38588	--"Is it unpleasant?"
38588	--"No postponement, on account of the weather?"
38588	--"Well, Martin,"said I,"what more?"
38588	--"What is it?"
38588	--"What,"I inquired,"at this time of night?"
38588	--------"Is your name Shylock?
38588	21,_ My friends, there is no such thing as a friend_?
38588	3, to have proclaimed that man happy, who had found even_ the shadow of a friend_?
38588	73, p. 466, exclaims--"To what does it go?
38588	A creditor, having often knocked, and becoming impatient, knocked more violently;"will not your master see me?"
38588	All this I am ready to vouch for-- but, for what purpose, do you ask me to go with you?"
38588	And how did he receive them?
38588	And how shall_ we_ deal with the dead?
38588	And now the reader will inquire, what relation has this statement to the catacombs?
38588	And what will he not do, to work out this species of salvation, with fear and trembling?
38588	And whom does it benefit?
38588	Are these the words of truth and soberness?
38588	But are we not all liable to mistakes?
38588	By whom?
38588	Can you not remember, that you yourself, when a boy, were saluted now and then, with the title of"proper plague"--"devil''s bird"--or"little Pickle?"
38588	Caner?"
38588	Colvin gazed upon the chains, and asked--''What is that for?''
38588	Dreams are marvellous things, certainly-- all this was a dream, I suppose-- for, if it was not-- what was it?
38588	Have n''t we lifted, head and foot, together, for six and thirty years?"
38588	How can I make thee amends?''
38588	How shall_ we_ deal with the dead?
38588	How should you like that, gentlemen?''
38588	I ask, in reference to this quotation from Croese, the same question?
38588	If he shall be proved to be innocent, who will not blush, that has contributed to fill the atmosphere, with a presentiment of this poor man''s guilt?
38588	In answer to the question, how slavery had been abolished in Massachusetts?
38588	In the course of the trial, Robinson said to Penn--"_You have been as bad as other folks_"--to which Penn replied--"_When and where?
38588	Is it not wise, and natural, and profitable, for the pilgrim to pause, and mark his lessening way?
38588	It need not be long, said one-- a line apiece, said the second-- shall I begin?
38588	Now I ask, in the name of historical truth, if Mr. Macaulay is sustained in his assertion, by Bonrepaux?
38588	Of what surgeon have I received a fee, for a skeleton, to blind mine eyes withal?
38588	Oh, hell- kite, all?
38588	So much for glory-- and what then?
38588	Starting suddenly, I beheld the well known features of an old acquaintance and fellow- spadesman--"Don''t you know me?"
38588	The courtly Quaker, therefore, did his best to seduce the college from the path of right."--Therefore!--Wherefore?
38588	The question is still before us,--How shall_ we_ deal with the dead?
38588	The question was not--"_can these dry bones live?_"--but are they the bones of the murdered Colvin?
38588	The work of corruption has gone forward-- the gases have escaped-- how and whither?
38588	This chivalry of the South-- what is it?
38588	This is well.--_Burials in tombs_ are still allowed.--Why?
38588	Turning his head to me, he said softly,''Dear father, hast thou no hope for me?''
38588	Well: what is Mr. Macaulay''s authority for this?
38588	What is an herse of wax?
38588	What is the necessity of going back to the time of Draco, 624 years before Christ, for examples of inhuman, and absurdly inconsistent legislation?
38588	What shall we do to be saved?
38588	What sort of a Judge is this?
38588	What then shall be done?
38588	What was Solon, in comparison with David Crockett-- we are sure we are right, and why should we not go ahead?
38588	What will not such a man occasionally do, rather than submit gracefully, under such a trial, to the will of God?
38588	What, all my pretty chickens and their dam, At one fell swoop?"
38588	What, all?
38588	What_ seduction_?
38588	When that extraordinary man, Sir Thomas Browne, exclaimed, in his Hydriotaphia,"who knows the fate of his bones or how oft he shall be buried?
38588	Whence com''st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine?
38588	Wherein was ever the sin or the shame of negotiating, between the buccaneers of the Tortugas, and the parents of captive children, for their ransom?
38588	Who hath the oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be scattered?"
38588	Who hath the oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be scattered?"
38588	Who shall decide the question of_ nudum pactum_ or not?
38588	Who shall presume to say that contract is void, for want of consideration, or because the subject is_ malum in se_?
38588	Why charge such a man with_ malice prepense_?
38588	Why continue to bury in tombs?
38588	Why say, that he was_ instigated by the devil_?
38588	before us, as blotted all over, with official piracy and judicial murder?
38588	what are these boys here for?''