362 LAWYERS-LEARNING. 8. There was on both sides much to say: And so he did - and then a third Long bills, and answers stuff'd with lies, 9. For forms of government let fools contest; Whatever's best administer'd is best. 10. Each state must have its policies: DEAN SWIFT. Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters; 11. No thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. POPE. TRUMBULL'S Mc Fingal. 12. Are not our laws alike for high and low? CHARLES WEST THOMSON. 13. Unjust decrees they make, and call them just, And we submit to them - because we must. J. T. WATSON. LAWYERS.- (See Law.) LEARNING.-(See EDUCATION.) LETTERS. 1. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper. 2. Full oft have letters caus'd the writers To curse the day they were inditers. SHAKSPEARE. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, POPE'S Eloisa. 4. The earth has nothing like a she epistle, I love the mystery of a female missal, Which, like a creed, ne'er says all it intends. Take care what you reply to such a letter. BYRON'S Don Juan. 5. Do you like letter-reading? If you do, I have some twenty dozen very pretty ones; And very lying-stupid ones and witty ones 6. When absent far from those we love, Oh! yes a letter. EPES SARGENT. 364 7. LIBERTY-LIFE. When he had A letter from his lady dear, he bless'd BAILEY'S Festus. 8. Well, Mary, I've seen your nice billet, LIBERTY. (See FREEDOM.) J. T. WATSON. LIFE. 1. O, why do wretched men so much desire And thousand perils which them still await? SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, SHAKSPEARE. 3. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 4. Oh, how this spring of life resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, 5. Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind what happens let us bear, DRYDEN. 7. Who breathes, must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn; And he alone is blest, who ne'er was born. 8. There's not a day, but, to the man of thought, Betrays some secret, that throws new reproach On life, and makes him sick of seeing more. PRIOR. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. Oh, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate! 10. Love, Hope, and Joy, fair Pleasure's smiling train, POPE. POPE'S Essay on Man. 366 11. LIFE. Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die. POPE'S Essay on Man. 12. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious spirit e'er resign'd- 13. Catch then, Oh catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer man a flower He dies, alas! how soon he dies! 14. Our youthful summer oft we see GRAY'S Elegy. DR. JOHNSON. SCOTT's Marmion. 15. Between two worlds life hovers like a star, BYRON'S Don Juan. 16. Well, well — the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails; And, as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails. BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. Who with the weight of years would wish to bend, 18. To give birth to those BYRON'S Childe Harold. Who can but suffer many years, and die, BYRON'S Cain. |