20. When I consider how each of these professions are crowded with multitudes. - Ibid.

21. Either a pestilence or a famine, a victory or a defeat, an oracle of the gods or the eloquence of a daring leader were sufficient to impel the Gothic arms.-Gibbon.

22. We know to what causes our past reverses have been owing, and we will have ourselves to blame if they are again incurred.— Alison.

23. What should we gain by it that we should speedily become as poor as them? — Ibid.

24. Let me awake the king of Morven, he that smiles in danger; he that is like the sun of Heaven rising in a storm.— Macpherson: Ossian.

25. I demand neither place, pension, exclusive privilege, or any other reward whatever.-Franklin.

26. The very scullion . . . becomes of more importance than him.-Ibid.

27. Formerly we have conversed, together with Pericles, on this extraordinary man.-Landor.

28. It is now about four hundred years since the art of multiplying books has been discovered.-D'Israeli.

29. Skinner, it is well known, held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend.-Macaulay.

30. This does not so much seem to be owing to the want of physical powers, but rather to the absence of vehemence.-Alison.

31. For this difference no other general cause can be assigned but culture and education.-Blair.

32. Those who have explored with strictest scrutiny the secret of their own bosoms, will be least apt to rush with intolerant violence into that of other men's.- Carlyle.

33. Robert is there, the very out-come of him, and indeed of many generations of such as him.-Ibid.

34. It is not worthy of the powers of its author, who can, and has at other times, risen into much loftier ground.—Gilfillan.

35. The literature of France, Germany, and England, are at least as necessary for a man born in the nineteenth century as that of Rome and Athens.-Bulwer.

36. Concerning some of them, little more than the names are to be learned from literary history. -Hallam.

37. Sir Thomas More in general so writes it, although not many others so late as him.-Trench.

38. Homer, as well as Virgil, were transcribed and studied on the banks of the Rhine and Danube.-Gibbon.

39. America, as well as Europe, has received letters from the one and religion from the other.-Ibid.

40. Every one of this grotesque family were the creatures of national genius-D'Israeli.

41. Those whose profession or whose reputation regulate public opinion.—Ibid.

42. Everything that painting, music, and even place furnish, were called in to interest the audience.-Alison.

43. Few, if any town or village in the south of England, has a name ending in by.-Harrison.

44. Professor Sedgwick, a man of eminence in a particular walk of natural science, but who should not have trespassed into philosophy, had lately published his discourses.-J. S. Mill.

45. At least I am resolved that the country shall see who it has to thank for whatever may happen.—Brougham.

46. And the persons who, at one period of their life, might take chief pleasure in such narrations, at another may be brought into a temper of high tone and acute sensibility.—Ruskin.

47. A constable will neither act cheerfully or wisely.- Swift. 48. Frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. -Johnson.

49. If you were here, you would find three or four in the parlor after dinner whom (you would say) passed their time agreeably.— Locke.

50. And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream.-Genesis.

51. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and hell gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged every man according to their works.-Revelation.

52. Successful he might have been, had his horse been as ambitious as he.-Goldsmith.

53. Your ear still opening to the captive's cry;

Nor less was promised from thy early skill.-Savage.

54. We are alone, here's none but thee and I.-Dryden. 55. Holland and thee did each in other live.-Ibid.

56. Sorrow not as them that have no hope.-Thessalonians. 57. It is not fit for such as us to sit with the rulers of the land. -Scott.

58. Which his instrument or skill were unable to achieve.Ibid.

59. The Prince was apprehensive that Waverley, if set at liberty, might have resumed his purpose of returning to England.— Ibid.

60. Description,' he said, 'was to the author of romance exactly what drawing and tinting were to a painter; words were his colors.'. . . . 'The same rules,' he continued, 'applied to both, and an exuberance of dialogue in the former case was a verbose and laborious mode of composition, which went to confound the proper art of the drama, a widely different species of composition, of which dialogue was the very essence; because all, excepting the language to be made use of, was presented to the eye by the dresses and persons, and actions, of the performers upon the stage.'—Ibid.

61. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd . . . and shall gently lead all those that are with young.— Isaiah.

62. Let us turne to him with an upright heart. So shall we shine as the sunne in the kingdom of our father; so shall God be our God, and will abide with us forever.—Bishop Jewell.

63. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; . . broad noon shall be

my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.-Emerson.

64. A perfect traitor should have a face which vice can write no marks on- lips that will lie with a dimpled smile eyes with such agate-like brightness and depth that no infamy can dull them a cheek that will rise from a murder and not look haggard.-George Eliot.

65.

Thou art a girl, as much brighter than her,
As he is a poet sublimer than me.—Prior.

66. On this moment he appeared, under this tree
Stood visible among these pines his voice

I heard; here, with him, at the fountain talked.-Milton. 67. When the helplessness of childhood, or the frailty of woman, make an appeal to her generosity.-Jeffrey.

68. Madame de Staël observes that much of the guilt and the misery which are vulgarly imputed to great talents, really arise from not having talent enough.—Ibid.

69. It was my intention to have arranged the contents of this new issue of The Queen's English under the parts of speech.-Dean Alford.

70. All these difficulties and dangers are quite as real, and require as much attention, and are fit subjects for practical teaching in our schools, quite as much as many points which, at present, receive perhaps an excessive attention in some of our text-books.— J. R. Seeley, Edwin A. Abbott.1

1 Preface to English Lessons for English People.

Words lead to things: a scale is more precise,

Coarse speech, bad grammar, swearing, drinking, vice.- HOLMES.

Depend upon it, it is with our thoughts as with our persons- their intrinsic value is mostly undervalued, unless outwardly expressed in an attractive garb. -DANIEL WEBSTER.

IN

N the construction of every period two things are to be regarded, the words that compose it, and the manner in which these are put together; the former resembling the materials of which a house is made, and the latter the order in which such materials are placed.

The ideal is never fully expressed. All symbols are but hints of meaning. Words as the signs of our conceptions, are at best only imperfect representations of our thought, in general expressing too little or too much. Momentous disputes have, in every age, turned on the signification of a phrase, a term, or even a particle. Therefore, ‘A man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he useth stands for, and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words as a bird in limetwigs; the more struggles, the more belimed.' 1 To like purport says the poet Holmes, with characteristic felicity:

One vague inflection spoils the whole with doubt.
One trivial letter ruins all, left out;

A knot can choke a felon into clay;

1 Hobbes.