...day asked the must potent of jokers to sit to him for his portrait, the no less incomparable Sydney replied, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" Great wits jump. It is a "remarkable coincidence" that, about the same time when this incident was...

...so delighted was the painter that he asked him to sit for his picture ; to which proposition Sydney replied, " Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing? " Тик PERILS OF EMPTINESS. — A coxcomb, teasing l)r. Parr with an account of his petty ailments,...

...him, desiring him to sit for his portrait to LANDSEER, the celebrated animal-painter ; to wlu'ch he replied : ' Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing !' Although the reverend gentleman says he is ' growing weak in his professional joints,' his portrait...

...prediction or question of Hazael, who when charged by the prophet with contriving the death of his king — replied, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" He was doubtless sincere. But the prophet had hardly left him, when he conceived the murderous thought...

...he should be guilty towards the children of Israel. Hazael, in the spirit of virtuous indignation, replied, ' Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?' And Elisha answered, 'The Lord has showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.' This man afterwards...

...face with a scowl of contempt that was inimitable, and in a tone of voice and manner most withering, replied : " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing ?" He appeared to be moved from the deepest recesses of his moral nature, and speaking from the holiest...

...impetuosity of manner, "Will this honorable Senator tell me that he will do it?" To which Mr. Sumner promptly replied, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" The Globe reports the disorderly ejaculations which followed from Mr. Butler, winding up with the words,...

...opposite whether they were prepared to reject religious education in the Scotch schools, each would have replied — " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" He trusted that the House would not hastily throw aside principles which had raised Scotland to the...

...governs his pencil. When Sidney Smith was requested by a friend to sit to Landseer for his portrait he replied, "is thy servant a, dog that he should do this thing?" His reply was significant of the apprehension justly entertained that the artist could not avoid giving...

...months, he would be chargeable with one of the blackest crimes mentioned in history, he would have replied, " Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" In October, 1740, Charles VI., Emperor of Austria died, and his daughter Theresa, twenty-three years...